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How to use the word sustaining in a Sentence?

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The key to sustaining life on Mars is an extremely intensive, closed loop, efficient food system.

Lenore Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Built in a UK shipyard, HMS Anson demonstrates the very best of British industry, sustaining our world-leading sub-surface capabilities and underlining the UK's readiness to contribute them to shared security, especially with our closest allies Australia and the United States under the AUKUS initiative.

Ben Wallace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can almost think of it as a personalized spacecraft -- a secondary but much more personalized spacecraft that protects the crew member, provides them pressure, oxygen, cooling and any other life-sustaining functions that are needed.

Dustin Gohmert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That means potentially two companies developing sustaining lander capabilities and two missions landing astronauts on the moon under the criteria we plan to use for the next decade of Artemis crewed missions, in addition to the first landing, all before we ask for recurring services.

Jim Frey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was forced to medically retire after sustaining several injuries in Korea. Both Sarah and I had many fears about paying off our new mortgage we were facing many financial burdens since we were not anticipating Forrest needing to retire early.

Forrest Severson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would impact just about everything we are trying to do in terms of making and sustaining improvements, we'd have to suspend our health and wellness initiatives that we have started but I think the biggest impact would be our inability to increase... staffing which is so critical.

Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have accomplished a great feat. Over the last two years we have rescued 23 crew members, four of which were stuck inside the engine compartment for over 30 hours, none sustaining life-threatening injuries. Now we have completed the largest wreck removal in Commander Efren Lopez history.

Commander Efren Lopez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Well, it is embarrassing, the thing we say is, to win a football game, you've got to keep from losing. We felt like we lost the football game yesterday because we didn't do the things that we need to do to play winning football, and that's protect the football, not have penalties that's going to keep drives from sustaining, and we did those things yesterday frequently.

Desmond King

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I struggle to see a number of metal prices sustaining this move, we're getting to a stage where prices are not aligned with the fundamentals.

Warren Patterson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Indonesia has achieved very impressive growth in biodiesel production over the past five years, indonesia’s success at sustaining biodiesel production has been a critical factor in the low stocks and high prices which the industry is enjoying today.

Julian McGill

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

They're just sustaining on the ground.

Viktor Bondarev

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Kim continues to show the world that despite North Korea's economic difficulties over the last year, the focus on sustaining nuclear forces and modernizing conventional weaponry has not shifted.

Ankit Panda

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are working tirelessly with multiple partners on sustaining the industry once we raise our curtains again, sVU.

Michael Parmelee/NBC

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The State of California is continuously working to support our hospitals and protect the lives of Californians impacted by COVID-19. By working to upgrade challenged oxygen delivery systems at these older hospitals, we can improve the ability to deliver life sustaining medical care to those who need The State of California.

Mark Ghilarducci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Freedom is expressing our true spirit 'love'. Independence is sustaining this freedom inspite of all inhibitions.

Ian Pinto

added by anonymous
3 years ago

That's kind of the grand experiment that we're actually starting to run now, no one really knows the answer to : Can we bootstrap a self-sustaining marketplace ?

Casey Dreier

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even Google is having a hard time sustaining Even Google service, online distribution is good, but Even Google's not going to replace stores. Even Google will be challenging for them to sign up subscribers.

Alex Besen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The well-coordinated LAFD defensive operations prevented either of two adjacent businesses from sustaining fire damage.

Los Angeles Fire Department

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When will you be self-sustaining? When will you be profitable without continually having to ask for more and more money from debt holders and equity investors?

Alex Snyder

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Chinese want to see their economic relationship with India grow, particularly if they could get the Indians to use Huawei technology for their 5G network, the Chinese would certainly be very useful for the Chinese government in terms of sustaining Huawei as an alternative to the West.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What is really novel here is not just that carbon from the surface ocean can reach the deep ocean on relatively short timescales, but that the young carbon produced in the surface ocean is fueling, or sustaining, life in the deepest trenches.

Rose Cory

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Besides the fact that material mostly comes from the surface, the age-related bioaccumulation also increases these pollutant concentrations, bringing more threat to these most remote ecosystems. what is really novel here is not just that carbon from the surface ocean can reach the deep ocean on relatively short timescales, but that the young carbon produced in the surface ocean is fueling, or sustaining, life in the deepest trenches.

Rose Cory

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Improving combustion engines is key to sustaining our business in the long term.

Al Khowaiter

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Now the islands are complete, I think we will see a degree of caution in Beijing's next moves, sustaining that presence so far from the Chinese coast is a massive undertaking, and I think the deployment of troops and jet fighters would really cross a threshold for China's neighbors.

Zhang Baohui

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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