"sustained loss" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an extended period of time in which something is continually lost, or to denote a long-term financial or material loss. For example: "The company suffered a sustained loss for the first quarter of the year."
However, once sustained loss of control is established and once plasticity of choice has been lost a characteristic of most individuals who receive a diagnosis of alcoholism efforts to teach ways to return to moderate drinking have proved difficult.
Do not be carried along inconsiderately by the appearance of things, but give help to all according to thy ability and their fitness; and if they should have sustained loss in matters which are indifferent, do not imagine this to be a damage.
Any sustained loss of foreign students, scholars and scientists would damage American universities, where foreigners make up a huge portion of the graduate student body and academic work force, as well as industries that rely on short-term infusions of technical talent.
Some of the effects of marine heat waves, which may be less obvious to people, include sustained loss of kelp forests, reduced surface chlorophyll levels, which affect phytoplankton populations, mass mortality of marine invertebrates and reshaping of the community structure of ocean species, Tuesday's study said.
Clinical studies and experiments in animal models have demonstrated that exposure of normal tissue to ionizing radiation is associated with rapid and sustained loss of thrombomodulin in microvascular endothelial cells [29], [30].
This is the case both for its prolonged early asymptomatic phase and, until recently, for the acute exacerbations that punctuate its later stages [6], which can induce accelerated and sustained loss of lung function [7].
Mass-market producers cannot afford sustained losses.
Although these ventures still sustained losses, they were at least building market position.
However, loss aversion promotes caution only when people are considering gains; once people have sustained losses, impulses change dramatically.
The district court had no authority to approve the settlement of a class that included members that had not sustained losses at all, or had sustained losses unrelated to the oil spill, as BP alleges.
In 1992, the board shut down an ill-fated television venture, the Monitor Channel, which sustained losses estimated at $300 million.
