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sustentation

[suhs-tuhn-tey-shuhn] / ˌsʌs tənˈteɪ ʃən /








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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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)

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




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