Synonym: abide, bear, endure, keep up, maintain, stand, suffer, support, tolerate. Similar words: sustainable, maintain, retain, obtain, stair, contain, curtain, certain. Meaning: [sə'steɪn] v. 1. lengthen or extend in duration or space 2. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) 3. provide with nourishment 4. supply with necessities and support 5. be the physical support of; carry the weight of 6. admit as valid 7. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
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31 Requited love is not enough to sustain a long-term relationship.
32 Colleges could not longer sustain their initial teacher education?
33 Pretense cannot sustain blind power. Dejan Stojanovic
34 Experience has shown that the latter can not sustain liberal democracy in the context of their weak economic situations.
35 To sustain the boomers while meeting its other obligations,(http://sentencedict.com/sustain.html) the government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
36 Miller observed that penal institutions' can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time.
37 How do you sustain a democratic system in a country in which the public is turned off?
38 Hayek, however, constructs his theory in such a manner as to render such criticisms difficult to sustain.
39 Believing in the other person - extending trust - helps to create and sustain constancy and trustworthiness.
40 And by failing to address them, it actually helps sustain them.
41 For example, male and female is not a relationship; there must exist love or desire to actualize and sustain the relationship.
42 It posed a problem for Charman because he could not sustain the song's frantic pace.
43 That they use leaves to produce the energy they need to sustain life?
44 There is no current technology that could build a craft to sustain life for that period of time.
45 In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.
46 Formalist analyses of abstract works proved compelling at first, although they became difficult to sustain.
47 I was feeling ecstatic, yet did not hope to sustain this ecstasy through my life.
48 It is quite simply impossible to sustain a civilized society if the men are constantly disrupting it.
49 The general consensus of opinion is that a successful action under s.62 for insider dealing will be hard to sustain.
50 The aim is to build Labour's credibility by creating an economy which will sustain higher spending on its social programme.
51 And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac....
52 Capitalists were forced to concede the wage rises which for the system as a whole were needed to sustain accumulation.
53 Any form of scientific endeavour must attempt to transcend its time and place to sustain an independent, doubting stance.
54 He supports the programs and encourages the creativity needed to sustain them, he said.
55 Part of the problem is that the weeds in fields sustain wildlife, and maintain the rich diversity of nature.
56 Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith.
57 He had no corporate structure to sustain, no major office buildings or sales force to keep going.
58 Go for the key points - the points that sustain the argument and help to clinch it.
59 They recognize that no laws can prevail against the dissolution of the social connections and personal motivations that sustain a civilized polity.
60 Finance ministers and central bankers agreed to cooperate closely to sustain the strength of the pound.
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