Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise=--It requires greater moral strength to bear good fortune than bad.
When he had finished, she said to the gentleman next her, ‘Je ne puis pas soutenir cet homme la; il me parle comme un Dedicace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soutenir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.