sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We regard it as another law, that the distribution of the sustentation money entrusted to the Church should be a distribution, not discretionary, but fixed by definite enactment.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

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

Perhaps a little sustentation of life to the country will be obtained by a wretched peace.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

He had prepared a sustentation fund scheme for the support of the seceding ministers, and this was at once put into successful operation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various