sustentation

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Prohibition of all interference on the part of employers with the management of the relief and sustentation funds of the working classes, to whom the sole control of these funds should be left.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

The conditions of their sustentation and generation being given, which no difference of physical circumstances can render incredible, the race may, so far as we can see, go on forever.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

And any who were absent without lawful cause shall forfeit one pound of wax to the sustentation of the said great candle.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

He founded a goodlie hospitall in the citie of Yorke, called S. Leonards, for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well brethren as sisters.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Holinshed, Raphael