Sentence examples for sustained substance from inspiring English sources

But there has always been a sense of needless excess about Miami, a place in which dollar bills are so often unthinkingly squandered in the pursuit of short-term superficiality rather than sustained substance.

This could suggest that sustained substance use over a protracted period could be more deleterious than a shorter period of increased use.

Adolescent substance use has been strongly related to juvenile and adult criminal justice involvement [ 3, 4], various health risk behaviors [e.g., [ 5, 6]], sustained substance use and related consequences [e.g., [ 7- 9]], and poorer life outcomes [e.g., [ 10- 12]].

Our lenient definitions of substance use (i.e., fairly low levels of the considered risk behaviors) may reflect experimentation more than sustained substance use in some cases, and may be regarded as a normal aspect of adolescent development in some instances [ 6- 8].

It is the universe's only source of the life-sustaining substance called Spice, created -- somehow -- through the action of submarine-size sand worms.

But it is the universe's only source of a mysterious life-sustaining substance called Spice, the ultimate raw material that makes this ultimate colony a treasure to die for.

And without this life-sustaining substance, nothing else matters.

In a hearing earlier this month before the California Horse Racing Board, his lawyer argued that a case of depression was the reason Valenzuela missed the drug test and not because he had sustained further substance-abuse problems.

Robert Veeder celebrated his 15th year of sustained remission from substance use and dependence on Nov. 1, 2018.

These may favor SA because school difficulty reflects somewhat a mental/cognitive ability; depression affects physical and mental performances [ 22– 25]; and sustained violence favors substance use, depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and altered cognitive development [ 3, 15– 17, 20, 21].

The model predicts that overall, shellfish production decreases by 10%28%% using any of these development scenarios, principally because shellfish growth is being sustained by the substances to be reduced for improvement of water quality.