Sentence examples for barely sustained from inspiring English sources

She was a waitress, and her paycheck and tips barely sustained us.

Blair's claim that the Iraqi threat was "serious and current" was "barely sustained by the hard facts," Stephens admits.

At the time of independence, in 1963, the countryside barely sustained a total population of 8m, which has now swollen to 45m.

The first volume, recording the Nazis' ascendance from 1933 to 1941, left Klemperer bereft of work, income, friends and family, barely sustained by his marriage to an "Aryan" but hobbled and humiliated by the yellow star that negated his conversion to Christianity.

She writes very short stories (some only three of four pages long), and her work is less about full-fledged adultery than blocked, impossible relationships long-distance affairelationships long-distancet affairspe, kept alive erotically with raw and rude selfies, texted snapshots, phone sex.

In each line I discovered the crushing power of print, for what I had constructed with so much love and pain as a humble imitation of a universal genius was revealed to me as an obscure, weak monologue, barely sustained by three or four consolatory sentences.

As such, it barely sustains two acts.

On strategic arms reductions, Moscow can barely sustain its current nuclear arsenal, anyway.

In rural Veracruz, where the remainder of the dead lived, small towns barely sustain themselves.

It would barely sustain a column, let alone a book; you either agree with him, or you do not.

More than six million French citizens spoke no French, and an equal number could barely sustain a French conversation.