sustentar Englisch:

Only two of the planets could sustain life.

A cup of coffee isn’t enough to sustain you until lunchtime.

The company sustained damages in excess of its insurance coverage.

sustainable sources

to make something continue to exist or happen for a period of time. He was incapable of sustaining close relationships with women.

The monument has sustained certain damage.

The soil in this part of the world is not rich enough to sustain a large population.

The team may not be able to sustain this level of performance. The money he received was hardly enough to sustain a wife and five children.

‘this thought had sustained him throughout the years’

If you want to speak fluently you must constantly sustain the contact with language.

while two sustained less serious wound

"A resident sustained bruising to his arms following restraint."

A starting population of 150 to 180 would best sustain itself at the same rate over six to eight generations.

Sustain means to support something or keep it going. If you get hungry in the mid-afternoon, you might try snacking to sustain your energy through dinner.

Time and space are one body, mind and things sustain each other.

Why do you insist on paying for your school expenses yourself, when your parents are willing to give you financial support?

support group

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices.

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support. We did not go by choice, we went because of necessity.

The Bank of Japan is considered to have conducted a support buying of an estimated $1 billion on the Tokyo foreign exchange market.

In order to prevent a further drop of the Japanese currency, the Bank of Japan intervened in the market to support it at around 150 yen to the dollar.

In conclusion, Ahn, it very much falls to you and me to set the tone for the work environment. I will do my bit to defuse the present climate and crack on with the job at hand. I hope I can rely on your support for this.

It seems as if dishonorable, labyrinthine, deliberately confusing economic policies have earned more support from the president than every physical and mental disability combined.

There are merits and demerits to both your opinions so I'm not going to decide right away which to support.

Lojban is designed to be unambiguous in orthography, phonology, morphology, and grammar. Lojban semantics, however, must support the same breadth of human thought as natural languages.

I totally understand why you say that. It’s frightening how many people our world has to support.

On the other hand, there seem to be those among young folk who, while touching on Buddhism, have started to think of it as a vital spiritual support.

You need to earn about $1000 a month to support a family in this country. The government in this country has a lot of support from the population.

The report is underpinned by extensive research.

Bekoff believes social development is the most important purpose of play for humans, not least because it underpins morality

how to underpin the service

the assumptions and beliefs that underpin our whole lives

‘the theme of honour underpinning the two books’

Human values are the core principles, beliefs and standards that underpin how we think, behave and interact with others

He presented data to underpin his argument.

If liberal ideas do not underpin the world, geopolitics risks becoming the balance-of-power, sphere-of-influence struggle that European statesmen grappled with in the 19th century.

mechanisms underpinnig the results of the study

Work began on rectifying the structural problems of the library and extra piles were inserted and the building was underpinned