Sentence examples for sustained him as from inspiring English sources

It was a comforting notion that maybe even sustained him as he coached Duke to a national lacrosse championship.

His exhilaration about the go-ahead sustained him as his health declined in recent months, and it kept him involved in plans for the mission's 2016 launching "to his last breath," said his wife, Gail Georgenson.

It was also where he learned to play the xiao, an ancient flutelike instrument that sustained him as a street musician during long bouts of joblessness after his release.

But also, music saved and sustained him, as if it were a spiritual, healing force.

Fiction launched his screenwriting career, which in turn sustained him as he wrote four more experimental novels and a memoir.

All the while, Trump's brash personality has sustained him as a magnet for attention in New York's tabloid-driven media culture, a fierce training ground for candidates.

He has cash and guns to sustain him, as well as cunning, ruthlessness and do-or-die determination.

Both Alberto Contador and the 2014 winner, Vincenzo Nibali, lost time in the first serious mountain test of this year's race, where the stage win and the yellow jersey went to the Belgian Greg Van Avermaet, who built a five-minute advantage that should comfortably sustain him as far as the Pyrenees.

"He faces a daunting task, but the priority he attaches to a spiritual life of prayer, to reflection on the Bible and dependence upon the holy spirit will sustain him, as will the love and support of his family and friends.

They sustain him, as do life's daily surprises.

But with so many challengers splintering the vote, that was enough to sustain him as he washed away one competitor after another.