sustaining
持续的,持续性的,持续,持续性
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Definitions
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- : to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- : to bear.
- : to undergo, experience, or suffer; endure without giving way or yielding.
- : to keep from giving way, as under trial or affliction.
- : to keep up or keep going, as an action or process: to sustain a conversation.
- : to supply with food, drink, and other necessities of life.
- : to provide for by furnishing means or funds.
- : to support by aid or approval.
- : to uphold as valid, just, or correct, as a claim or the person making it: The judge sustained the lawyer's objection.
- : to confirm or corroborate, as a statement: Further investigation sustained my suspicions.
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Examples
It looks coral in a way, like a living, breathing self-sustaining organism that belongs at the bottom of the ocean.
Even those who favored a stimulus questioned whether the national budget could sustain such a generous and ongoing obligation to veterans.
The Terps sustained that progress a week later in their stunning win at Penn State, and now their ability will be tested in a difficult matchup Saturday against No.
We’re clear-eyed at how hard this is going to be to sustain through the fall and the winter.
That makes America a precious example to the world that electoral democracy can be self-sustaining — that it isn’t just a blip in the long journey of humankind’s evolution.
Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
In fact, he said, it should give her caregivers all the more reason to consider withdrawal of life-sustaining fluids.
We meet a worker named Joan, who tries to escape but is dragged back in after sustaining a gory walker bite on her arm.
Namely, he tried to fall on his sword without losing blood, sustaining a wound or suffering any pain.
They have a novelistic drive to them in which all of that research is integrated in a powerful and sustaining way.
She habitually ate chocolates for their sustaining quality; they contained much nutriment in small compass, she said.