sustentation

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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Fielding, H. (Harold)

The struggles of Garrison and Wendell Phillips for the rescue and sustentation of fugitive slaves are well-known instances of underground conspiracy.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

And Brahman has been defined as that from which there proceed the origination, sustentation, and retractation of this world.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George