Sentence examples for once sustained from inspiring English sources

Some plots that once sustained three harvests can now support just one; others are entirely barren.

Tongass timber once sustained thousands of jobs, but supports only a few hundred today.

Freshwater fisheries were collapsing and with them whole ecosystems once sustained by streams and fish.

Far more will have to happen to restore the water flows that once sustained the Everglades.

Take Eastleigh in Hampshire, whose railway works once sustained the town.

Crafts that once sustained them, such as making brass pots and shoeing horses, are now obsolete.

The Christian Grey of cities. Southend has always had an air of failure that could be attributed to its feeling of inadequacy next to London, which at once sustains it in terms of the endless job opportunities, but also deprives it in other, less quantifiable ways.

New Zealand contributed to the destruction of two cruisers during her wartime service and was hit by enemy fire only once, sustaining no casualties; her status as a "lucky ship" was attributed by the crew to a Māori piupiu (warrior's skirt) and hei-tiki (pendant) worn by the captain during battle.

Fashioning chances became awkward, too, once Arteta sustained knee ligament damage in February.

Red Dust is at once a sustained poetic meditation and a portrait of a nation - a continent-sized nation - in flux.

Once a sustained peaceful contact occurs, it becomes much easier to protect native rights than it otherwise would be for isolated populations.