sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Thorold Rogers justly remarks that the strength of communism lies in the misconduct of administrations, the sustentation of odious and unjust privileges and the support of what are called vested interests.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William

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

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 Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The presence of God in his world was thus to be evinced by his regular sustentation of its natural order, rather than by irregular occurrences, such as the deluge, in seeming contravention of it.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris