sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
There remains, then, as the only intelligible rationale of solar sustentation, Helmholtz's shrinkage theory.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
They make the peopling of the earth, with its successive races of inhabitants, a series of events altogether different from the operation of physical laws in the sustentation of existing species.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Edward Hitchcock
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 George Thibaut
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 Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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