Sentence examples for sustains- from inspiring English sources
"I think what sustains Brighton's coffee shops is the fact that there are so many freelancers and creatives in the city," he says.
The same explanation sustains female genital mutilation (FGM).
If the economy tanks because public spending no longer sustains as much private activity, he and Osborne will have to prime the pump as unemployment rises.
Ian McEwan has mounted a fierce defence of free speech in an address to students at a US college, telling his audience that "freedom of expression sustains all the other freedoms we enjoy", and that "without free speech, democracy is a sham".
Watch how she sustains those pirouettes in attitude at 0 31 and 0 38, and note the part played by her arms.
With a reported production budget of only $8.5m, this was potentially an attractively priced acquisition for UK distributor eOne, especially if word-of-mouth sustains.
"AN ATTACKING force always sustains more casualties," said a Sri Lankan army commander, seeking to dismiss the army's large losses in an attack on Tamil Tiger rebels.
That sustains a break with investment-led growth that dates back to 2011.
That was worrying because the collective faith that sustains the NPT is easily frayed.
Ammonia synthesised using the Haber-Bosch process underpinned the "green revolution" in the second half of the 20th century and its associated population boom; today it sustains one-third of the world's population.
Critics of Israeli policy argue that the country denies basic human rights to millions of Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, and sustains its occupation of Arab land with indiscriminate force.
