Sentence examples for has sustained for from inspiring English sources

She is ahead in national opinion polls by about 20 points, a lead she has sustained for months.

Look, for instance, at the price war that Rupert Murdoch started in Britain, and which he has sustained for five years.

If Lemelson contines to average twenty patents a year — a pace he has sustained for three decades — he will catch Edison, who is the Hank Aaron of patents, with a thousand and ninety-three, by the time he is ninety-seven.

The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained the same studied silence it has sustained for more than two weeks on the assumption that nothing it said could serve its interests: if it praised the pro-democracy movement, it would be seen as disloyal to its ally, Mr. Mubarak.

The warfare between human and pests has sustained for thousands of years.

With only one-seventh of the world's arable land, China has sustained for centuries, and does so still, one-quarter of the human population.

Only someone of his catholic interests could have sustained, for instance, the superb Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724 27).

"An economic boycott of Arizona just adds to the massive economic burden Arizonans have sustained for years due to the federal government's failure to secure our borders," Mr. Senseman said.

The soil formation had sustained for ca. 5400 years and ceased at 3100 a B.P. A major pedogenic regression occurred from 3100 a B.P. because of climatic aridity and intensified dust accumulation over the Loess Plateau.

"In Alan's raised right hand, festooned with surgical clamps and now separated from the body that it had sustained for seventy-one years, rested the vice president's heart.

All subjects reported that the pain had sustained for at least 3 months and that they continued the prosthetic treatment.