The phrase "attain sustained" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of achieving a lasting or continuous state, but the combination is awkward and unclear.
Example: "Our goal is to attain sustained growth in our business over the next five years."
Alternatives: "achieve lasting" or "reach continuous".
Langley aerodrome No. 5, aircraft designed and built by Samuel Pierpont Langley in 1896, the first powered heavier-than-air machine to attain sustained flight.
By addressing the less-recognized causes of gender and racial pay inequality in the workplace, companies can attract a more diverse workforce and better leverage it in the quest to attain sustained competitive advantage.
The manta ray, Manta birostris, has been identified as one such high performance species due to their ability to migrate long distances with low energy consumption, maneuver in spaces the size of their tip-to-tip wing span, produce enough thrust to leap out of the water and attain sustained swimming speeds of 2.8 m/s with low flapping frequencies.
The storm intensified further to attain sustained winds of 45 mph (70 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of about 1000 mb near Mclain, Mississippi, accompanied by a well-defined eye-like feature.
These data suggest that IV AAV8 may be an attractive delivery route and vector to attain sustained increased levels of plasma UCn2.
We hypothesized that the HRQOL will improve in those patients who attain sustained viral response similar to naïve patients undergoing treatment for HCV.
Inodilator therapy with milrinone seems more efficacious in attaining sustained hemodynamic improvement than does pure intravenous vasodilator therapy with nitroglycerin in treating patients with decompensated heart failure.
Shortly thereafter, the storm underwent rapid intensification; roughly 24 hours after being named, Waka attained sustained winds of 120 km/h (75 mph).
A day later, George reached its maximum intensity, attaining sustained winds of 110 mph (175 km/h); in its small eye, an Air Force Hurricane Hunter plane measured a central pressure of 960 mb.
Six of these hurricanes were intense enough to be classified as major hurricanes a denomination reserved for storms that attained sustained winds equivalent to a Category 3 or greater on the present-day Saffir Simpson scale.
44 Gene transfer vectors based on AAVs are capable of attaining sustained transgene expression in a wide variety of cells.
