Sentence examples for sustaining rather than from inspiring English sources

Stirner's expansive definition of religion enables him to portray Feuerbach's work as sustaining rather than undermining religious modes of thought.

"These companies are sustaining rather than growing sales so far this year, and a holiday season boost would be tremendously helpful," she said.

Adopting these themes in our own practice will help put us on a pathway towards more adaptable social systems that can become self sustaining, rather than maintained through a centrally planned model.

But sustained rather than sustainable.

Social work has sustained rather than overwhelmed me.

I was absorbing the rhythms of the episodic structure and learning what it meant to sustain rather than simply create a world.

Health care is poorly co-ordinated, which is a particular drawback for the growing number of patients with chronic conditions requiring sustained rather than occasional medical care.

The brain works best "on a single task and for sustained rather than intermittent or alternating periods of time," the neurologist Richard Restak writes in "The New Brain: How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind".

There needs to be parallel change in how countries think of the international order: it has to be built and sustained rather than assumed to be someone else's responsibility.

A company would buy a lease and would guarantee to act in a way that sustained, rather than damaged, the reef.This is not to say that governments have no role in preserving reefs, beyond enforcing property rights.

Reconstruction after war is a particular economic burden because the finance, imported capital goods, and labour used in reconstruction merely restore the losses a country has sustained, rather than adding to the stock of capital available to its economy.