Sentence examples for basically sustained from inspiring English sources

In the 1600s, one of the region's most lucrative occupations was clubbing, skinning, and selling these bucktoothed critters, which basically sustained Canada's economy until the 19th century.

We are a non-profit and it basically sustains the farms as a platform for the youth development work to happen.

Burgin: If there's any "secret" to sustaining a publication for twenty-seven years, it's basically sustaining your level of commitment and bringing in new writers and new editors who see the world through different lenses.

A shocker in its day (it was banned in Boston), "The Children's Hour" is basically a sustained ethics lesson, delivered via some laboriously wrought dramatic machinery.

For Vice President Al Gore, the second presidential debate was basically an act of contrition, a sustained and sometimes lightly self-mocking acknowledgment of where he had gone wrong the first time around.

"We're looking to have sustained spending and sustained revenues basically, more or less, together," Mr. Page said.

Toomer's helmet was basically smashed in the collision and he sustained a concussion.

Though some other scientists and mathematicians prior to Lorenz had examined such phenomena, these were basically isolated investigations never producing a recognizable, sustained field of inquiry as happened after the publication of Lorenz's seminal paper.

"And basically, they decided the service could not be sustained for the long haul".

Many people basically pass by or pass through, never making a sustained commitment to recovery.

But the reality is that we've been basically flat on the employment front since late 2009, with nothing suggesting a sustained break back toward better performance: Maybe someone should talk about doing something?