sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The Fishmongers had a grant of power to hold land "for the sustentation of the poor men and women of the said commonalty."

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Thorold Rogers justly remarks that the strength of communism lies in the misconduct of administrations, the sustentation of odious and unjust privileges and the support of what are called vested interests.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William

It would seem that the system by which he maintained them was that he assigned to each a region of which the inhabitants were responsible for its manning and its sustentation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various