I described Mrs. Drummond's worthy career as a wife, a mother, and a self-sustaining business woman.
At one time in prison she tried to kill herself by throwing herself head-long from one of the upper galleries, but she succeeded only in sustainingcruel injuries.
The bishops and cardinals were waited upon by Champlain, and their zeal awakened and their co-operation secured in raising the necessary means for sustaining the mission.
One feels so sincerely that his main conclusion is sound, that it is the more trying that his statement of it should be often so perverse and his method of sustaining it so precarious.
Instead, therefore, of our having in nature and personality two things which cannot be brought together, these become members of one great organism of intelligence of which the immanent God is the source and the sustaining power.
At this presage of the difficulties awaiting me, I felt one strand of the rope sustaining me above this yawning gulf of shame and ignominy crack and give way.
With this new shock of Carmel's inability to explain her own part in this tragedy and thus release my testimony and make me a man again in my own eyes, I lost the sustaining power which had previously held me up.
It is a symbol of the life-giving and sustaining power of God.
As such, it is a symbol of the life-giving and life-sustaining power of God.
His first speech in Congress was made in January, 1822, sustaining the Administration of President Monroe, and of John C.
For many years it was the policy of the Government to render this a self-sustaining Department; and if this can not now be accomplished, in the present condition of the country, we ought to make as near an approach to it as may be practicable.
They are "volcanoes burnt out, and on the lava and ashes and squalid scoria of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining corn.
A wall had been erected with the view of sustaining a vaulted ceiling, still incomplete, that had been projected from the wall of the opposite chamber.
So great a number imposes duties upon him peculiarly heavy: nor does his constitution seem capable of sustaining his fatigues.
Propositions for the repeal of obnoxious laws sustaining Slavery were stifled.
It was on that occasion that General Jackson wrote his celebrated letter in favor of my election and sustaining my political course.
But let those who think of supporting General McClellan for the Presidency remember that, in sustaining him, they must necessarily vote for Mr. Pendleton for the Vice Presidency.
In the centre the barrier was broken by a square pedestal sustaining the bronze she-wolf with the twins hanging to her dugs, and on the base in great letters, the device of supreme authority in Rome: "S.
Behind them stood a row of columns in a semicircle, sustaining the cupola through which filtered a crepuscular light which seemed to favor meditation and concentration of the mind.
She was however got off without sustaining any damage.
The sight of Clem, however, inevitably suggests the person to whom I am indebted for his sustaining ministrations.
But if I can, by mild reasons and firm conduct, save those rude men from committing a crime, and the property belonging to myself and others from sustaining damage, surely I do but the duty of a man and a Christian.
Suddenly he woke, and being asked why he sighed, said that he had been sustaining a last 'assault of Satan.
And during the first seven years of its continuance this indomitable man was sustaining another doubtful conflict, in which the issues not for Scotland only, but for Europe, were so momentous that it must be looked at separately.
In the dark river a sustaining arm will be underneath you, deeper than the deepest and darkest wave.
A plane or arched surface forsustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.
It is uncertain whether they will ever be brought under the review of zeal united to sagacity sufficient for sustaining a search purely disinterested.
Were the flesh of animals the staple food of the British peasantry, their numbers would not be nearly so large as they now are, for a given area of land is capable of sustaining a far larger number of vegetarians than of meat eaters.
The tubers possess great vitality, and remain in the ground during the most severe frosts, without sustaining the slightest injury.
She looked as if she would let go and sink to the floor if the captain were to withhold his sustaining arm.
The sustaining whirlwind had let her down, to stumble on again, weakened by the fresh stab, bereft of moral support which is wanted in life more than all the charities of material help.
When placed in the dock he lost his steadiness as if some sustainingillusion had gone to pieces within him suddenly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sustaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
