The phrase "and thus sustained" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been maintained or continued as a result of a previous action or condition.
Example: "The project was challenging, but the team's dedication and hard work ensured that it was completed on time and thus sustained its reputation for excellence."
Alternatives: "and therefore maintained" or "and consequently upheld".
The α-Al2O3 whiskers were grown at 1400 °C and thus sustained its phase and structure over 1400 °C.
Nevertheless, proteolytic cleavage of HER4 and heterodimerization of HER2/HER4 occurred and thus sustained HER2 phosphorylation.
In wild-type mice, inflammatory stimulation induced G-CSF production by LECs and other cell types (principally macrophages), and thus sustained neutrophil mobilization and expansion.
These colonies could be propagated in secondary feeder cultures and thus sustained self-renewal ability.
This results in more continued phosphorylation of myosin light chain and thus sustained contraction.
Additionally the test was ended at the moment muscle force was measured to peak and thus sustained muscle contractions were limited.
However, only those NAEYC-accredited programs that paid higher than average salaries were able to attract highly-skilled staff and thus sustain quality over time.
The state that promises maximised choice and minimal risk is in serious danger of encouraging people to forget two fundamentals of economic reality - scarcity as an inexorable truth about a materially limited world, and concrete productivity and added value as the condition for increasing purchasing power or liberty, and thus sustaining any kind of market.
Avoiding deflation – and thus sustaining economic recovery – would seem to depend on one of two scenarios: either a rapid reversal in the fall of energy prices, or a deliberate policy to raise output and employment by means of public investment (which, as a byproduct, would bring about a rise in prices).
But we don't have the habit, you see, of hearing ourselves…" Starting even before the release of "Breathless," Jean-Luc Godard made use of his eloquence in interviews as a key method of establishing his public persona (and thus sustaining a career even in the face of failures at the box office), and this was unusual.
Just before Christmas 2011, Nasa announced that its space telescope had discovered Kepler-22b, the first confirmed planet to orbit squarely within what scientists call the "Goldilocks zone" of a Sun-like star, where temperatures would be just right to allow surface water throughout its orbit, and thus sustain life.
