sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There remains, then, as the only intelligible rationale of solar sustentation, Helmholtz's shrinkage theory.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

He founded a goodlie hospitall in the citie of Yorke, called S. Leonards, for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well brethren as sisters.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Holinshed, Raphael

For the growth and sustentation of a forest and of such plants as prefer the woods to the openings it would far excel the deep and exhaustless alluvians of the prairie states.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler

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)