They have provided sustenance and essential building and design materials.
Others have found sustenance -often against stiff official repression -in the exotic disciplines of Indian religions.
For hundreds of years, pedestrians have needed sustenance when away from home and in a hurry.
Al Qaeda networks were nourished by the ideas of Islamic fundamentalists just as Breivik invoked and may have drawn sustenance from the ideas and stories of other Western extremists.
But the union negotiated a deal in which teachers could be paid with 26 paychecks so as to have financial sustenance over the summer.
Clearly, Kooser the metaphor maker speaks for an extended "family" of generations that have drawn sustenance, both material and spiritual, from the Great Plains.
It's also worth noting the sheer durability of the band's bedrock materials, which have provided sustenance to other contemporary acts, from Alejandro Escovedo to Best Coast to Ted Leo.
Would we be able to minister to them like we do now?" Some people at the mission say it is difficult to think about a bulldozer's tearing down a place where for so many years so many homeless men have found sustenance, prayer, a refuge from life's storms and a chance to get back on their feet.
And novelists of such varying stripes as Ian Fleming and John le Carré have drawn sustenance from the treachery that emanated from 1930s Cambridge, where enlistment in the worker's revolution seems to have easily accompanied sipping claret, participating in debauches and collecting Poussin paintings.
Following the tourist route through courtyards, gardens and halls costs £8, or $12.30 at $1.54 to the pound (www.chch.ox.ac.uk/visiting), but it's worth it, if for nothing else than to visit the soaring dining hall that served as a model for Hogwarts... er, where centuries of brilliant students have sought sustenance.
These are perhaps his best work as a homilist, for he finds in the uplifting spiritual poetry of the Hebrews messages that he can apply consistently to his view of austere, hopeful, realistic Christianity; his ordinary congregation in Hippo would have drawn sustenance from them.
