Since the Islamist party, Hamas, took control of Gaza last June, its 1.5m people have been confined within the strip's 146 square miles (378 sq km), kept alive on a drip-feed sustenance of international aid.The 1.1m Palestinians inside Israel are far better off, though they have long suffered legal and economic discrimination.
Gradually, successive inventions fed cultural sustenance into our homes.
You go home to your tiny apartment at the end of the day and you feed yourself for sustenance and you learn the lines for the next day and you try to get as much sleep as you possibly can.
A22 Florida Woman Loses Lifeline Terri Schiavo, who has been in a vegetative state since 1990 and reliant on a feeding tube for sustenance received what was supposed to be her final feeding.
Although she can breathe on her own, Mrs. Schiavo has depended on the feeding tube for sustenance since 1990, when her heart stopped temporarily because of what some doctors diagnosed as a potassium deficiency.
The house has plenty of bedrooms, but three generations spend their nights in the room with the hospital bed, with a suctioning machine and a respirator ready in case they are needed, and with a feeding tube supplying sustenance to the man who was now, with the cry he could manufacture, asking for some unspecified form of attention.
The whole thing is charmless, like a bowl of horse feed, but it's sustenance, and it validates coffee.
Nor did he wish to have his body sustained artificially after it had lost its capacity for self sustenance: no feeding tubes, no I.V. drips.
At that time UNICEF's child feeding programme was providing sustenance to 550,000 children.
Although he breathes on his own, his lungs battle a steady barrage of infections; a feeding tube provides all his sustenance, and his muscles have contracted into short, twisted knots.
After several days without water or food, the nursing staff insisted that he get sustenance through a feeding tube.
