Synonym: free burning. Similar words: sustain, sustainable, unsustainable, sustainability, contained, entertained, stain, abstain. Meaning: [sə'steɪnd] adj. 1. maintained at length without interruption or weakening 2. (of an electric arc) continuous.
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91 Presumably, this is a politically expedient decision; but how long can this car dependence be sustained?
92 But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit.
93 It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
94 During seizures,[www.Sentencedict.com] there was a sustained increase in extracellular glutamate to potentially neurotoxic concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus.
95 The medieval tower of the town hall of Foligno, near Assisi, also sustained further damage.
96 Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter.
97 Aesthetic attention, therefore, consists of engaging the focus of attention in a heightened sustained discrimination.
98 He said spiralling public sector borrowing was the greatest threat to a sustained economic recovery.
99 These provide a sustained steam of energy during the prolonged physical exertion required for professional cycling or tennis.
100 Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?
101 The boy sustained a fractured left arm and was taken by ambulance to San Jose Medical Center.
102 The sustained applause that followed suggested they may get their wish.
103 Thus epileptic seizures often began with a sustained tachycardia in spite of apnoeic pauses and severe hypoxaemia.
104 It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began.
105 A sustained advertising onslaught will be required for growth to continue until an expected flotation in April 2002.
106 Employment, the second, and trickiest, component,(sentencedict.com) must depend on a return to sustained economic growth.
107 The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
108 Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.
109 But this ideology, though revolutionary in content, in fact sustained capitalist relations of production in general and big business in particular.
110 His wife, Susan, sustained a permanent nerve pinch in her back, and Ellison was shaken to his core.
111 Essentially the project will assess the question of whether a competitive advantage can be sustained through planned technological change.
112 His bulky life of Russell is a sustained attack, in which he lays two charges against the philosopher.
113 It is not yet clear though whether this marks the beginning of a sustained upturn or an aberrant blip on the graph.
114 Fewer interactions, therefore, indicate more sustained conversations between teachers and their pupils.
115 At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling.
116 The policies they sell offer cash payouts in the event of injuries, disability or death sustained in a road crash.
117 She sustained a mild concussion in the game against the Xplosion, and was held out of action.
118 At the same time, computers helped sustained the trading frenzy prompted by human error.
119 In the absence of mathematical proofs of security, nothing builds confidence in a cryptosystem like sustained attempts to crack it.
120 No neat distinction between legal doctrine and political principle can be sustained at this level of adjudication.
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