Given the essential roles that oceans play in planetary function and provision of human sustenance, the grand challenge is to intervene before more tipping points are passed and marine ecosystems follow less-buffered terrestrial systems further down a spiral of decline.
Subsequently, in Samatha v. State of Andhra Pradesh (1997), the meaning of life was expanded to include the right to live with human dignity; and to the provision of minimum sustenance, shelter, and those other rights and aspects of life that make life meaningful and worth living.
This principle supports the provision of minimum standard of sustenance for all, rather than channeling resources to the least well off.
Maslow (1943) argued with a force that has deeply entered the conceptual surroundings of these questions that people live according to a hierarchy of needs by which provision for basic sustenance and safety is necessary for continued growth and self-development.
Refuse all offers of sustenance besides.
"It's a form of sustenance, really".
It is a lot of visitors in need of sustenance.
For them, Mr. Shajahan was a source of sustenance.
Food, however, is a metaphor in the trilogy for another kind of sustenance, the sustenance provided by an inner conviction of one's own worth and integrity.
"But he loves that place and he gets a lot of sustenance from it.
Reno is now a city of sustenance as well as indulgence.
