sustentation
Example Sentences
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The conditions of their sustentation and generation being given, which no difference of physical circumstances can render incredible, the race may, so far as we can see, go on forever.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
The air-ship, unlike the aeroplane, is not dependent upon its engines for its power to remain in flight, but derives its sustentation from the hydrogen gas with which it is filled.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
Prohibition of all interference on the part of employers with the management of the relief and sustentation funds of the working classes, to whom the sole control of these funds should be left.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
They make the peopling of the earth, with its successive races of inhabitants, a series of events altogether different from the operation of physical laws in the sustentation of existing species.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
