Barack Obama

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

American President

Francis Spufford

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

English Author

Michelle Obama

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

American First Lady

Eve Ensler

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.

American Playwright

Dustin Hoffman

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

American Actor

Labrinth

Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

American Musician

Milovan Djilas

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Politician

Harmony Korine

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

American Director

Ovadia Yosef

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

Iraqi Clergyman

Pat Nixon

Use 'sustain' when you talk about something providing physical support over time.

Physical support

Emphasize the duration with 'sustain'; it's not just supporting, but doing so for a long period.

Long-term aspect

Focus on activities or processes that need to keep going without interruption.

Continuing activity

'Sustain' suggests the action isn't just a one-time event, but it has a lasting character.

Not temporary

It's used when someone or something goes through an event or condition, often a negative one.

Enduring an event

Usually associated with significant, impactful events, not something minor or trivial.

Severity

In legal settings, 'sustain' often relates to upholding or agreeing with a previous decision.

Legal context

Conveys a formal or official acceptance, particularly in a courtroom or formal discussion.

Formal agreement

 that could have sustained life. We get to shoot a laser at the rock. Now why did we do that? Instead of having to go over and touch every rock and taste every rock... like we said before, we can actually fire the laser at the rock, burn the surface of the rock and look at the gas that comes off. And from that gas we can see what the chemical composition of that rock is. What are the elements that are there.

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 move to more suitable climates. Existing parks and protected areas are also doing climate change check-ups to help their wildlife cope. Fortunately, it's still within our power to preserve much of the wondrous biodiversity of this planet, which, after all, sustains us in so many ways.

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 that well-monitored, long-term changes in behavior can lead to improvements in obesity-related health issues. And weight loss from sustained lifestyle changes, or invasive treatments like bariatric surgery, can improve insulin resistance and decrease inflammation.

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 it could sustain life indefinitely. There's just one problem. They don't work. Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.

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 but rarely do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communications skills. It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"

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 these efforts my approach or my theory is that for us to design equity in attention in addition to developing these interventions we have to also cultivate the leaders to build and sustain this effort for this I propose a

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 and how it came to assume its multiple meanings. The book traces Dr. Frankenstein's futile quest to impart and sustain life. He constructs his monster part by part from dead matter and electrifies it into conscious being.

Everything you need to...

 Charming, aren't they? Though they may look vastly different, all of these beings have one common They sustain themselves by consuming the life force of a living creature. This shared trait is what defines a vampire --

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 to relieve the agony of his burning muscles. And he gives thanks for the life he has taken, so that he may sustain the lives of his family, waiting for him in their settlement.

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 but behind the scenes, a huge coordinated effort is playing out. Your vital organs, the gut, brain, bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life

Sustain

To support or hold up for a long period.

Often appears as...

To keep something going.

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To experience or be subject to.

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To confirm the truth of.

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Long-term aspect

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