Sentence examples for involved sustained from inspiring English sources

These involved sustained plunder and racially driven violence against native peoples.

It involved sustained solitary wailing an anguished sound, which we hear.

The street violence, which involved sustained gunfire between Israeli and Palestinian troops last Monday, provoked opposition forces on both sides to press their leaders to suspend the talks.

In fact, much of evolution does not involved sustained, long-term directional change in the average characteristics of organisms.

The long-term training protocol involved sustained swimming at the Uopt for 6 h per day (10.00 16.00 h), for 5 days per week lasting for 4 weeks.

Thus, our paradigm involved "sustained" attention to one or other side (or neither) during each block, rather than any shifts of attention within a block (cf. Molenberghs et al. 2007; Kelley et al. 2008).

The Libyan operation, by contrast, is an offensive mission involving sustained bombardments of a government's forces.

Renewal would involve sustained investment in this cutting edge, providing the opportunity to develop world-leading expertise in other areas of precision engineering with high export potential.

"The original cases do not appear to involve sustained contact with agricultural areas or animals," Dr. Robert Breiman, head of the W.H.O.

The Administration adds a second set of rationalizations, which make even less sense: U.S. operations do not involve sustained fighting or active exchanges of fire with hostile forces, nor do they involve the presence of U.S. ground troops, U.S. casualties or a serious threat thereof, or any significant chance of escalation into a conflict characterized by those factors.

The White House's argument for not doing so borders on sophistry — that "U.S. operations do not involve sustained fighting or active exchanges of fire with hostile forces, nor do they involve the presence of U.S. ground troops," and thus are not the sort of "hostilities" covered by the act.