sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aeroplane, a flying-machine deriving its power of sustentation from the reaction of the air driven downwards by the rapid transit of fixed wings or 'planes' through the air.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
The prolonged, delicate, exquisite sustentation of the pictorial tone seems to me a marvel of ingenuity and fancy.
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
The argument points, then, to the sustentation of those moderate forces of order, which, somewhat to the world's surprise, still manage to maintain themselves on the rock of the German character.
From The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
The fundamental question that had to be answered in that book was the question of the "sustentation" of the new Church.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
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