Sentence examples for opposite of sustained from inspiring English sources

But if sustainability means anything, it is surely the opposite of sustained growth.

Staccato notes are the opposite of sustained notes - they are short, sharp, and truncated.

See below: Staccato notes are the opposite of sustained notes - they are short, sharp, and truncated.

A witness told Reuters that major clashes ended after a period of sustained gunfire and explosions that appeared to focus on the Restaurant Cappuccino, located opposite the Splendid Hotel, early on Saturday.

His beliefs brought years of sustained abuse.

Endothermy allows high levels of sustained activity.

Authoritative interpreter of vast swaths of 20th-century British and choral repertoire, one of the most recorded of all living conductors, a man capable of sustaining parallel careers on opposite sides of the world, Hickox was a ubiquitous presence.

At times these sounds move in opposite directions: sustained piano chords fade away, while bowed strings grow louder.

An athlete with Achilles tendonitis has a 200-fold risk of sustaining an Achilles rupture on the opposite foot.

Pulling in the opposite direction, however, was the Pentagon's assessment of the insurgency, which it found to be tenacious, with "robust means of sustaining its operations" in terms of arms, financing and recruits.

Mugabe made no pretense of sustaining democracy.