Sentence examples for sustaining only from inspiring English sources

The campsite was closed in 1998 when the ground suddenly opened up under a young woman employee and she fell eight metres into the pit, mercifully sustaining only light injuries.

In a ground campaign that began on February 24 and lasted only 100 hours, allied forces speedily retook Kuwait and destroyed or incapacitated most of the Iraqi army while sustaining only minimal casualties themselves.

The creations of the director, Antoine Fuqua, and the screenwriter, Kurt Sutter, seem to have been freeze-dried, cut into card-sized tiles, and laid out sequentially — sustaining only the shallowest definition of character, connected only by the thinnest string of motive, and hermetically isolated from the practicalities among which the action ostensibly takes place.

Known for its stability, infamous political neutrality and having sailed through the global downturn while sustaining only the merest of glancing blows, Switzerland brings to mind clear blue lakes surrounded by snow-capped mountains rising to the sun, wintersports, the all-important après ski, and summer hiking.

The lab itself "weathered Superstorm Sandy surprisingly well relative to our neighbors," he writes, sustaining "only minimal damage from flooding.

A man, his shirt bloodied and neck bandaged, smoked a cigarette as those around him congratulated him on sustaining only a minor injury: "Thank God for your safety".

He had sustained only cuts.

Thatcher was sustained only by one extraordinary piece of luck.

The Athenians sustained only 192 casualties in defeating 100,000 Persians.

Hill farming is sustained only with extravagant public subsidies.

It can be sustained only with a strong national mandate.