sustentation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The revenues confiscated were those used for “the finding, maintaining or sustentation of any priest or of any anniversary, or obit, lamp, light or other such things.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

The Fishmongers had a grant of power to hold land "for the sustentation of the poor men and women of the said commonalty."

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

The problem is,—To find an Ultimate Ground, a Final Cause, which shall be adequate to account for the existence and sustentation of this Universe.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.

We regard it as another law, that the distribution of the sustentation money entrusted to the Church should be a distribution, not discretionary, but fixed by definite enactment.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John