Sustain Sentence Examples

She sighed, no longer able to sustain her hope.

We don't have the people or supplies to sustain ourselves on the regular army side.

These passages inspire a hope, but do not sustain a certainty.

But his character was too weak to sustain the part.

But then, not being married, how could he understand what was required to sustain a marriage?

She was trained to assess, protect, repair, and sustain government systems through any kind of crisis.

Pretorius and Kruger, realizing that they would have to sustain attack from both north and south, abandoned their enterprise.

In the past, humanity has been able to sustain both wars and progress.

It was to sustain Augustine's thesis that Orosius produced in 417 his Historiarum libri septem, which remained the standard text-book on world history during the middle ages.

They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only.

Sir Walter Scott, Croker, Hayward, Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle (whose famous Fraser article was reprinted in 1853) and Whitwell Elwin have done as much as anybody perhaps to sustain the zest for Johnsonian studies.

After that, revolts of the satraps in Asia Minor and Syria were of everyday occurrence, and the task of suppressing them wasP complicated by the foreign wars which the empire had to sustain against Greece and Egypt.

It would involve human beings in helping to sustain the earth's biosphere.

The western mountains, exposed to the fierce lash of the Atlantic rains, sustain the heaviest and most constant precipitation.

Isliamov hoisted the Russian flag on Franz Josef Land in anticipation of any claim that Austria might sustain by right of discovery.

It had to sustain many wars with its neighbours in order to maintain itself in its new possessions.

The legend of the Omophorus and Splenditeneus, rival giants who sustain earth and luminous heavens on their respective shoulders, even if it already figures in the cuneiform texts of Assyria, is yet to be traced in Mithraic bas-reliefs.

If they spring from a thick root it is not to be wantonly severed, but the soil should be removed and the sucker taken off by cutting away a clean slice of the root, which will then heal and sustain no harm.

Bloom however, did not sustain any injuries in the accident.

In 1314 Albert's son, Frederick, was chosen German king in opposition to Louis IV., duke of Upper Bavaria, afterwards the emperor Louis IV., and Austria was weakened by the efforts of the Habsburgs to sustain Frederick in his contest with Louis, and also by the struggle carried on between another brother, Leopold, and the Swiss.

As if Nature could support but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping things, and hush and whoa, which Bright can understand, were the best English.

However, after the fad ended, the company could not sustain the brand and filed for bankruptcy in 1988.

Your body has certain caloric requirements to sustain healthy function.

If you sustain medical bills as a result of a car accident, you will need personal injury protection for coverage.

That it can sustain life on a purely vegetable diet is proved by instances on record of its being fed for years on bread only, in confinement.

As, however, the animals referred to do not actually fly, but merely dart into the air and there sustain themselves for brief intervals, they afford no real support to the theory.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Maria Fay's floor barre work established good habits and strengthened the essential stabilizing reflexes needed to sustain balance and control.

He couldn't sustain the lead, failing to make a single birdie on the back nine.

For a time I went about trying to trip myself up but did not manage to sustain even a bruise.

As fatigue sets in, the muscle tissue is no longer capable of meeting the metabolic requirements needed to sustain the contraction.

Hence we are seeking to establish a critical mass of people enough to initiate and sustain a thriving local land based economy.

In this case the free-wheel diodes sustain the load current during the dead time.

I feel confident about the leisure sector â high disposable incomes will surely sustain activity here.

In physics, to sustain oneself is to keep far away from thermodynamic equilibrium, which is death by another name.

These data may indicate a greater reliance on the NO pathway to sustain levels of cardiac vagal activity in heart failure.

It will protect you against most of the damages-both man-made and natural-your house may sustain.

An outdoor Tom is more likely to become involved in fights and sustain infection from an injury.

A PV off grid system built to sustain many users is called a mini-grid system.

I am miserable in your absence yet the simple memory of you is enough to sustain me during those interminably long intervals when we are apart.

Perhaps his energy would not have been sufficient to sustain him against these repeated blows of destiny if, in 1854, the accession to the viceroyalty of Egypt of his old friend, Said Pacha, had not given a new impulse to the ideas that had haunted him for the last twenty-two years concerning the Suez Canal.

The labour needed in this industry is supplied by Indian peons, who live in a state of semi-servitude and are paid barely enough to sustain life.

Chase and Judge John C. Underwood constituted the United States circuit court sitting for Virginia before which the case was brought in December 1868; the court was divided, the chief justice voting to sustain the motion and Underwood to overrule it.

He negotiates all treaties or alliances with foreign states, protects British subjects residing abroad, and demands satisfaction for any injuries they may sustain at the hands of foreigners.

It was certainly wise if the means existed which were necessary to carry it out and sustain it.

The rainfall, however, is light, about 20 to 25 in., but, with the assistance of irrigation, it serves to sustain a considerable degree of cultivation in the neighbourhood of the city.

In confinement the brown bear is readily tamed; and advantage has been taken of the facility with which it can sustain itself on the hind feet to teach it to dance to the sound of music. It measures about 12 ft.

We have now to see that, in writing the Categories, on the one hand he carried his differences from his master further than he had done in his early criticisms by insisting that individual substances are not only real, but are the very things which sustain the universal; but on the other hand, he clung to further relics of the Platonic theory, and it is those which differentiate the Categories and the Metaphysics.

He was extremely popular at court, and in 1783, on the death of Archbishop Cornwallis, the king pressed him to accept the primacy, but Hurd, who was known, says Madame d'Arblay, as "The Beauty of Holiness," declined it as a charge not suited to his temper and talents, and much too heavy for him to sustain.

Farther south the llanos of Chuquisaca and Tarija also sustain large herds of cattle on the more elevated districts, and on the well-watered plains of the Chaco.

The machine, fully prepared for flight, was started from the top of an inclined plane, in descending which it attained a velocity necessary to sustain it in its further progress.

Where a house or building in a street is taken down to be rebuilt, the urban district council may prescribe the line to which it is to be rebuilt, paying compensation to the building owner for any damage which he may sustain consequent upon the requirement.

Of these one or two, as we have evidence, tried their hands at engraving; among their engravings were these "knots," which, being things of use for decorative craftsmen to copy, were inscribed for identification, and perhaps for protection, as coming from the Achademia Leonardi Vinci; a trifling matter altogether, and quite unfit to sustain the elaborate structure of conjecture which has been built on it.

It must not only be strong enough to sustain all possible vertical loads, but it must be sufficiently rigid to resist without deformation or weakening all lateral disturbing forces, the principal of which are the pressure of wind, the possible sway of moving crowds or moving machinery, and the vibration of the earth from the passage of loaded vans and trolleys, and slight earthquakes which at times visit almost all localities.

In buildings to be used as offices, hotels, apartments, &c., it is usual in establishing the loads for the purpose of computation to assume that the columns carrying the roof and the upper storey will be called upon to sustain the full dead load due to material and the maximum computed variable load, but it is customary' to reduce the variable loads at the rate of about 5% storey by storey towards the base, until a minimum of about 20% of the entire variable load is reached, for it is evidently impossible that the building can be loaded by a densely-packed moving crowd in all of its storeys simultaneously.

It was ravaged by the English in 1379, and, in 1591, owing to its support of the League, had to sustain a siege conducted by Marshal Jean d'Aumont, general of Henry IV.

The conditions which enable a pulley tackle to sustain a weight when the effort is removed may be examined, to a first approximation, if we assume that the internal friction acts in such a way as virtually to diminish FIG.

But five years later he had again to sustain war with China, in which he was defeated, and East Turkestan once more became a Chinese province.

To this Hutcheson replies that no doubt the exquisite delight of the emotion of love is a motive to sustain and develop it; but this pleasure cannot be directly obtained, any more than other pleasures, by merely desiring it; it can be sought only by the indirect method of cultivating and indulging the disinterested desire for others' good, which is thus obviously distinct from the desire for the pleasure of benevolence.

Had not Bodin, Hobbes and Bossuet taught that the force which gives birth to kingdoms serves best also to feed and sustain them?

Gathering the weeds took precious time, but the energy the horse would sustain from it might save their lives in the near future.

We're know we can't walk away from what we're doing nor can we sustain it on our own.

According to my source of information, a blood relative can sustain an Oracle marooned without her master.

She paced and stared at him. … a blood relative can sustain an Oracle.

The first is a restructuring of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization.

You can buy inexpensive add-ons like a foot switch to give your controller keyboard a sustain pedal action, just like a piano.

Physiological maneuvers result in an even greater augmentation in vein size, however these are difficult to sustain during venous puncture.

The drummer, Earl Palmer whilst holding down a solid backbeat is also still playing a 'typical swing ' pattern to sustain the beat.

This is due to the fact that he is unable to have or sustain an erection long enough to have sex properly.

Lower bound solutions are obtained for the maximum thermal shock that the plate can sustain without catastrophic failure according to two distinct criteria.

After all, the impending famine in Africa opens up a new market to sustain the multi-billion dollar US biotechnology industry.

External pressures, internal temptations so inescapable that we just can't sustain our faith?

This additional investment at AWE is required to sustain the existing warhead stockpile in-service irrespective of decisions on any successor warhead.

How do we sustain our landscapes when agriculture is becoming more intensive?

The signal is either inverter or not inverted to obtain the necessary total phase shift around the loop to sustain oscillations.

I wrote the entire novel longhand in order to sustain its theme of physicality, of being rooted.

Mr Douglas has organized an intensive program of more than two events a month to sustain momentum in the first year.

Indeed it does much to sustain the deepest pessimism.

To be socially radical, we must generate the revenue to sustain that radicalism.

This little unit is lightweight and compact yet extremely rugged with all metal construction designed to sustain arduous conditions.

Living in a narrow coastal strip, they were busy traders, with little else to sustain them.

Around 500 people will sustain at least one recurrent stroke each year.

Low tax economies can thus sustain better services, and higher levels of spending, than high tax economies.

Our armed forces are stretched rather thin, and there is a limit to how many of these deployments we can sustain.

This Strategy sets out the Council's proposals to develop the rural economy and sustain the vitality of town centers.

This additional investment at AWE is required to sustain the existing warhead stockpile in-service irrespective of decisions on any successor warhead stockpile in-service irrespective of decisions on any successor warhead.

The great literary achievements of the Greeks in the 5th century lay already far enough behind to have become invested with a classical dignity; the meaning of Hellenic civilization had been made concrete in a way which might sustain enthusiasm for a body of ideal values, authoritative by tradition.

Cursed with such immoderate fluency Lydgate could not sustain himself at the highest level of artistic excellence; and, though imbued with a sense of the essentials of poetry, and eager to prove himself in its various manifestations, he stinted himself of the self-discipline necessary to perfection of form.

The professor of Arabic in Lisbon intervened to sustain the accepted view of the battle, and charged Herculano and his supporter Gayangos with ignorance of the Arab historians and of their language.

From the chaplain and his mistress and her damsels he learnt the rudiments of religion, of rectitude and of love, 3 from his master and his squires the elements of military exercise, to cast a spear or dart, to sustain a shield, and to march with the measured tread of a soldier; and from his master and his huntsmen and falconers the " mysteries of the woods and rivers," or in other words the rules and practices of hunting and hawking.

He shall then "live without a fire, without a house, without pleasures, without protection; remaining silent and uttering speech only on the occasion of the daily recitation of the Veda; begging so much food only in the village as will sustain his life, he shall wander about, neither caring for this world nor for heaven.

When news of this affair had reached Paris, the pope sent the general of the Minorites, Gerard Odonis, accompanied by a Dominican, to sustain his doctrine in that city, but King Philip VI., perhaps at the instigation of the refugee Spirituals in Paris, referred the question to the faculty of theology, which, on the 2nd of January 1 333, declared that the souls of the blessed were elevated to the beatific vision immediately after death; the faculty, nevertheless, were of opinion that the pope should have propounded his erroneous doctrine only "recitando," and not "determinando, asserendo, sed etiam opinando."

For a week I heard the circling, groping clangor of some solitary goose in the foggy mornings, seeking its companion, and still peopling the woods with the sound of a larger life than they could sustain.

Third, he had erred in his willingness to sustain the res judicata plea.

Huge retinues of armed men - unfree knights - were maintained to sustain the level of conflict.

Strength Endurance -- can you sustain your power output right up to the finish line?

Instead of overcoming a bewailed inertia, Reich 's theories hardly sufficed to sustain a ridiculous private racket.

Obviously also the cells are suffused with the life energies which sustain and animate our physical bodies.

It is important that we now sustain the momentum behind this initiative.

This will promote and sustain the valued synergy between research and teaching.

What is known is that depleted, contaminated or undernourished soil is unable to sustain life.

Of course, not every body or every nation can manage to survive and sustain in unfriendly environment.

Homeostasis is present in all life, helping to stabilize and sustain an organisms' functions, regardless of changing outside circumstances.

Coal is the most abundant of the non renewable energy sources around, but even it cannot sustain indefinite use.

It is important to visit the technician regularly to undergo a brief touch-up in order to maintain the look and sustain the integrity of the color.

With the understanding that food is intended to sustain and support life, whole food cooking seeks to find the natural balance between consumption and production.

With some work, a person can embrace healthier emotional states that sustain drug addiction recovery.

And can't sustain, like one half could" while he spits out decidedly unintelligent and thoughtless spoken words like referring to his private parts as "white supremacist."

If you hold the sustain pedal on the piano when striking the key, the note will hold long enough for you to tune your string to it.

Slow-release nutrients found in organic matter sustain plants and lawns.

Your baby's body needs healthy nourishment in order to sustain the rapid development it will go through throughout the pregnancy.

When you are pregnant, your body is working overtime to sustain your own needs while also working on the development of your baby.

Far too many pregnant women become protein-deficient or iron-deficient during pregnancy because they do not eat the types of foods they need to sustain their health properly.

Vitamins themselves are organic substances required by the human body to sustain life.

By being aware of workplace safety tips and following them, you are less likely to be involved in a workplace accident or sustain a work-related injury.

A trainer can help you to become familiar with using gym equipment correctly to ensure that you do not sustain any injuries.

Many individuals rely on sleeping medications to sustain a good night's sleep.

This includes the proper use of a Medic, who will always be on standby to recover your health as you sustain what will be several injuries in battle.

If you sustain an injury and don't treat it, it will gradually reduce your stamina, thus lowering your health.

This is because the density of the population cannot sustain the density of cell phone towers needed to provide reliable service over such a widespread area.

Toys should be selected to stimulate play and related cognitive and physical development; fad toys are less likely to sustain play activity and support development beyond the fad stage.

By age seven children have developed the ability to convincingly sustain a lie.

During a pregnancy, it is essential that the uterus be well perfused to sustain the fetus with nutrients and oxygen.

Children are most likely to get a corneal abrasion while playing, while adults are more likely to sustain an abrasion in the workplace.

Popular and socially competent children are able to consider the perspectives of others, can sustain their attention to the play task, and are able to remain self-controlled in situations involving conflict.

They may be inattentive, moody, depressed, or emotionally volatile, making it difficult for them to sustain positive play interactions with others.

Up to 60 percent of persons who sustain a mild brain injury continue to experience a range of symptoms called postconcussion syndrome as long as six months or a year after the injury.

The fetus is removed from the womb by cesarean section but the umbilical cord is left intact so that the mother's placenta continues to sustain the fetus.

Once a remission is achieved, consolidation chemotherapy, also called intensification chemotherapy, is given to sustain a remission.

An athlete who does not wear a mouth guard is 60 times more likely to sustain dental trauma than one who does.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 300,000 people sustain mild to moderate sports-related brain injuries each year, most of them young men between 16 and 25 years of age.

Studies reveal that the more a person smokes, the more likely he is to sustain illnesses such as cancer, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema.

Further, they sustain other sexual organs and their function throughout the reproductive years.

Very damaged hair may be harmed by additional harsh treatments, but healthier hair can sustain more color treatments easily.

Be sure that you are qualified for the job and that the pay will sustain you and your family if you do decide to move.

In this case, unemployment benefits will sustain your income through the required time you need off in order to recuperate.

For those staying home to take care of a gravely ill family member, unemployment will sustain income for a duration of 26 weeks prior to the death of the family member.

Poorly trained employees are also more likely to sustain injuries on the job, which increases the costs of doing business as well as affecting productivity.

It provides stillness of the mind, relaxation and coping strategies, and the strength, energy, and circulation benefits that can help you sustain a health life throughout your pregnancy and the remainder of your life.

Legends say that the Aztecs carried only one tablespoon of seeds per person during long marches, but that was enough to sustain their fierce warriors.

The more serious effects of toxic levels of vitamin D occur only when you sustain these levels over a long period of time.

Well, bee pollen is a very unique substance - it actually contains all of the vitamins and minerals needed to sustain life.

According to the manufacturer, "this nutritional supplement is used to nourish and protect hair, skin and nails from the inside to improve and sustain their growth, strength and health."

As a crucial nutrient to sustain human life, vitamin C can be found naturally in many of the foods you already eat and some that you may want to add.

This metal was able to sustain and conduct high amounts of heat.

In order to build a community, he will need to have the self-motivation to sustain it.

It might be a little far fetched to say that a lime green handbag can sustain your optimism for the entirety of your trip, but it's certainly a striking piece of fashion.

You can quickly grasp the dynamics this relationship will need to sustain and endure.

Whereas Aries cries out to the world for "Progress!", the Taurean responds by shouting, "Sustain!".

Players swing the hula hoop on their hips simultaneously to see who can sustain the hoop the longest.

The longer you have, the more able you are to sustain these ups and downs and continue to save utilizing investments in a well-diversified portfolio.

They don't come with a ton of features, but they are extremely affordable, portable, and they offer enough power to sustain Internet browsing, word processing, spreadsheets and a PowerPoint or two.

Guess ankle boots were introduced in the mid 1980s and have managed to sustain their popularity over the years.

Once you have a client or two, turn the money you receive back into marketing ventures until the business can sustain itself.

Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of calories your body needs within a 24-hour period to sustain itself.

Importantly, when your body is being deprived of the nutrition it needs, metabolic rate is known to lower itself in an effort to sustain its primary functions of the brain, heart, and other life-sustaining mechanics.

This is the standard amount of energy necessary to sustain the human body of most people and keep it functioning as it is intended to do.

This low-calorie food can help you get the protein - energy - you need to sustain your body without the added fat.

Answering the question "what do you eat on the fat smash plan" is one thing but making sure the exercise requirements are followed is an additional pressure that not everyone will be able to sustain or incorporate in everyday life.

Filling your cupboard with high fiber staples and snacks helps you sustain a high fiber diet.

The goal is to break up a meal plan like this in order to sustain your energy level throughout the day.

When added to the incidental amounts of protein you consume in milk, bread and other foods, this should be enough to sustain most athletic training programs.

Sustain the pressure for about five seconds, making sure to keep your wrists straight.

If you are going to put five three-minute songs in a row for a good cardio stint, you'll want to choose three songs with a fairly high number of beats per minute, but not so high that you can't sustain the level for fifteen minutes.

Any amount of physical activity that raises the rate of your heartbeat into your target heart rate zone is aerobic exercise, as long as you sustain this elevated heart rate for a significant amount of time.

If you run often, and it's always on pavement, you could sustain significant damage to your knees.

How long can you sustain moderate physical activity such as jogging, brisk walking or other sports?

A good way to ease into cardiovascular activity is to achieve a target heart rate of about 60% of your maximum heart rate and sustain it for 10 minutes.

The Linus Pauling Institute warns that nearly 33 percent of the people who sustain hip fractures will enter a nursing home within one year of the injury.

When you move your arms and legs together in a rhythmic function, your muscles require more energy in order to sustain the movement.

The harder you work, the more oxygen you need, and the more fats and carbs your body breaks down to sustain the activity.

Ray J's third album, "Raydiation" sold more than 400,000 copies domestically, but it wasn't enough to sustain his interest in recording.

For three weeks, the teens must create shelter, tend to injuries, and find food and water to sustain themselves.

A theology consisting of a few vague generalities was sufficient to sustain the piety of the best of the deists; but it had not the concreteness or intensity necessary to take a firm hold on those whom it emancipated from the old beliefs.

While the series was widely loved and critically acclaimed, it didn't have the viewer numbers to sustain it past three seasons.

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences established a dietary reference intake (DRI) for nutrients in order to sustain health.

In 1669, when the chair of philosophy at the College Royal fell vacant, one of the four selected candidates had to sustain a thesis against " the pretended new philosophy of Descartes."

For he had neither [means] to sustain himself nor his servants, and need not make further rehearsal thereof, seeing she knew it as well as he."

In spite of his age and infirmity he showed some vigour in dealing with Cade's rebellion, and by his official experience and skill did what he could for four years to sustain the king's authority.

The allies, feeling there the weight of the French attack, gradually drew upon the reserves of their left and right to sustain the shock.

Rainfall varying with the altitude, the lower timber line below which precipitation is insufficient to sustain a growth of trees is about 7000 ft., and the upper timber line about I I,Soo ft.

They might not sustain it, but if the parties did not dispute it, they were free to observe it.

Gunther (1783-1863), " Cartesius correctus," erected too mystical an edifice on the psychological basis of Descartes to sustain a satisfactory realism.

This period, however, is characterized not only by the thoroughgoing development of the authority of the Holy See, but also by the severe struggle the popes had to sustain against the hostile forces that were opposed to their conquests or to the mere exercise of what they regarded as their right.

But he adds, " To sustain the deduction it is not necessary that they should " (Ancient Society, p. 408).

Other attacks followed, and it became evident that Charles was unable permanently to sustain the royal authority.

Their failures were small compared with those of their contemporaries in England and elsewhere in Europe, and public opinion did not long sustain violent persecution of opinion.

After a rough estimate of the perturbations it must sustain from the attraction of the planets, he predicted its return for 1757,-a bold prediction at that time, but justified by the event, for the comet again made its appearance as was expected, though it did not pass through its perihelion till the month of March 1759, the attraction of Jupiter and Saturn having caused, as was computed by Clairault previously to its return, a retardation of 618 days.

We complain of the severe losses which we have been forced to sustain by the emancipation of our slaves, and the vexatious laws which have been enacted respecting them.

Thus the English, who cannot give up animal food and spirituous liquors, are less able to sustain the heat of the tropics than the more sober Spaniards and Portuguese.

The city's river commerce, though of less relative importance since the advent of railways, is large and brings to its wharves much bulky freight, such as coal, iron and lumber; it also helps to distribute the products of the city's factories; and the National government has done much to sustain this commerce by deepening and lighting the channel.

Their range in space, including carriage by birds, may be coextensive with the distribution of water, but it is not known what height of temperature or how much chemical adulteration of the water they can sustain, how far they can penetrate underground, nor what are the limits of their activity between the floor and the surface of aquatic expanses, fresh or saline.

On a motion for a new trial on the 10th of November of the same year it was stated that he was furnished with affidavits contradicting the evidence that had been given by Kay and others with respect to the originality of the invention; but the court refused to grant a new trial, on the ground that, whatever might be the fact as to the question of originality, the deficiency in the specification was enough to sustain the verdict, and the cancellation of the patents was ordered a few days afterwards.

But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.

Chrysippus's im mediate successors were Zeno of Tarsus, Diogenes of Seleucia (often called the Babylonian) and Antipater of Tarsus, men of no originality, though not without ability; the two lastnamed, however, had all their energies taxed to sustain the conflict with Carneades (q.v.).

When the Seven Days' battle began Porter's corps had to sustain alone the full weight of the Confederate attack, and though defeated in the desperately fought battle of Gaines's Mill (June 27, 1862) the steadiness of his defence was so conspicuous that he was immediately promoted major-general of volunteers and brevet origadiergeneral U.S.A. His corps, moreover, had the greatest share in the successful battles of Glendale and Malvern Hill.

Your life is important to me, more so than the amount of pain I must put you through to sustain it, she replied.