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sustentation

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  1. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
    they were in want of sustenance
    fishing was their main sustainment

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  • This area requires maintenance costing over $200 million a day and the surreptitious cost of the car culture totals nearly $500 billion a year in the U.S. alone, much of that going to the sustentation of a military presence in the Persian Gulf. Driving Mister Barack
  • The thing is reduced to a cruel mockery when stores and granaries are over-gorged, while people clamor in vain for clothing and food, and drop dead within reach of these prime elements of warmth and sustentation. Black and White
  • They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • In views of harmonious society, the construction of harmonious university pays more attention to personality, harmony, sustentation and multiplicity.
  • No missionary or "sustentation" support should be given by any cooperating denomination to a pastor in an overchurched community nor to a "circuit" involving interdenominational competition until after an adjustment is made either by reorganization of the circuit or an agreement has been reached by the missionary and administrative bodies of the respective denominations concerned as to an allocation of such missionary responsibility. Church Cooperation in Community Life
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  • Twenty per cent of the sustentation fee shall be paid into a specially held account for the purposes of campaigning.
  • A man must have air, or he will suffocate; he must have water, or he will perish of thirst; he must have access to the soil, for upon it grow those things which nature intended for the sustentation of the physical man, and without which he cannot live. Black and White
  • We also analyze the coupling strength threshold for sustentation of the connection.
  • Further, seeing it is not enough to the sustentation of a Leviathan
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