In good times, say those who approve of optimism, hope is a prompt to yet better things; in bad times it is a comfort, because it sustains the idea of relief or rescue, of reward or at least justice at last.
("Terror was necessary," he reasons, because it sustains the state. "Fear was cultivated" and "fear was part of his job").
Understanding this cycle is important, both because it sustains life on Earth and because it is bound up with the rate of global warming.
Doctors in Tampa, however, were unable to reattach 11-year-old Fernando Brignoni's severed digit because it sustained too much nerve damage when the dog, a Malumite-wolf mix called Sassy, chewed it off.
Alexis explained to "Dateline" that she "got into the industry doing, like, odd jobs modeling, music videos, things like that -- because it sustained [her] drug habit".
The "sharp" end of a "complete" beam must be free because it cannot sustain a bending moment of shearing force and, as a result, the space function will consist of two power series for alls.
It is umbilical because it seeks to sustain an American-sanctuary where fighting troops inevitably seek relief not only from the battle but also from the alien-ness of the evil stranger society.
Locke is later critical of the Harlem Renaissance because it failed to sustain a cyclical process of rebirth.
Moreover, it's harder to shift because it is sustained by a moral judgment against the people who are "otherized".
Those criteria are a far cry from ranking a hurricane as a Category 3 because it has sustained winds of 111 to 130 miles an hour.
