sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meteoric, or "dynamical," theory of solar sustentation was expounded by him before the British Association in 1853.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Ideals act for good as well as for evil; if they cramp all progress, they nevertheless tend to the sustentation of a certain level of thought.
From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding
It would seem that the system by which he maintained them was that he assigned to each a region of which the inhabitants were responsible for its manning and its sustentation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
Interest as connected with the sustentation of a certain mode of social life.
From A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
