Sentence examples for sustaining the large from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gates's comments, made to troops at Combat Outpost Andar in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni Province, demonstrated that while the secretary is to retire from his Pentagon post at the end of the month, he intends to remain a prominent advocate for the counterinsurgency strategy even as voices in the White House express doubts on sustaining the large commitment of troops and money.

According to David Attenborough, the habit of cannibalism may be advantageous in sustaining the large size of adults, as medium-sized prey on the islands is rare.

"If that's the case, why do you want to give up now?" Bush will likely use Petraeus's testimony, and his military prestige, to claim authority for sustaining the largest possible American presence in Iraq through the end of his Presidency.

The creativity that sustains the large national institutions – young artists working on the periphery of the mainstream – would be maimed.

"Now the market's so large you can actually sustain the large manufacturing plants and support the product locally," said Shah.

But the dangers the reef faces are not specifically from that, because it is almost independent of the human population – it is quite possible to sustain the large number of visitors and holiday makers on the reef if they behave in a proper way.

In 1912, nearly every family in a town of 3,400 people pooled remittances from emigrants or sold property to send their young to America, away from the rocky soil that could not sustain the large families crowded into three-room stone cottages.

The bottom panel has regions that are confined and this confinement enables the base panel to sustain the large compressive strains that develop as a result of gap opening displacements that develop along the base of the wall due to lateral loads.

Binding of zinc to a protein is unlikely to sustain the large entropy changes that would result from the ordering of a very mobile peptide chain (Auld, 2001).

Importantly, the depressed level of IL-2 found in aged mice may help to sustain the large pool of memory T cells and their cytokine products.

If the bypass in vivo is unable to sustain the large flux required for the TCA cycle to function at full capacity, this could explain the phenotype of oxoglutarate excretion.