The word 'sustainer' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to something or someone that provides support, maintains something, or keeps something in existence. It is often used in a figurative sense to refer to things or people that help sustain or maintain something. Here is an example of how 'sustainer' can be used in written English: "The NGO relies heavily on the generous donations of its sustainers to help fund its projects in developing countries." In this sentence, 'sustainers' refers to the donors who regularly contribute to the NGO's cause and help sustain its activities and impact.
But as Mr Hosking argues in his final pages, questions remain about the raison d'être of the Russian nation, and hence of the Russian state.Is Russia, he asks, the "creator and sustainer" of a multinational empire?
The Australian Broadcasting Commission (called the Australian Broadcasting Corporation after 1983) remained very important as a sustainer of orchestral music and sponsored most of the somewhat meagre amount of quality television.
This two-stage missile with a solid booster and a liquid-propellant (kerosene and nitric acid) sustainer, could engage targets at ranges of 28 miles and as high as 60,000 feet.
After 1962, with their RPG-7, they combined recoilless launch with a rocket sustainer to deliver a five-pound warhead to targets beyond 500 yards.
The importance of this cereal to certain parts of the world may be seen from the fact that in Sanskrit there exists, besides the usual word for rice, another term signifying "sustainer of the human race".
The SA-4 Ganef was a long-range mobile system first deployed in the mid-1960s; the missiles, carried in pairs on a tracked launcher, used drop-off solid-fuel boosters and a ramjet sustainer motor.
A robotic Sustainer-in-Chief with an eerie inhumanity will not satisfy.
The Aztec themselves, for example, as creators of a great empire, explained their rise in part to the fact that they were the chosen people of the war god Huitzilopochtli and were the sustainers of the sun god Tonatiuh.
But expertise in craftsmanship and the culinary arts was not the essence of the school; it existed to drill Nazi dogma into "sustainers of the race," those women who, under the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage, would be effectively bribed to produce babies.
The film is a tribute to Dorothea; it's also a tribute to all mothers, all parents and guardians, all homemakers in the specific and general senses, as more than mere protectors and sustainers — as creators.
In the mines of Bilma -- on a spit in West Africa whose dark gray landscape, divided into pits and warrens, recalls the moon's surface -- a few dozen families are the inheritors and sustainers of the salt caravan trade that brought life to the Sahara for centuries.
