All 7 Uses

sustain
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This I Believe
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I've come to appreciate once again that communal reflection about life's deeper matters is sustaining and uplifting and provides a consistent nudge in worthy directions.
Chpt 17 *

sustaining = supportive
though totalitarianism or technocratic government can obtain some swift successes, in the end, only a democracy can enlist a people's energies on a sustained and renewable basis.
Chpt 76 *

sustained = continuing through time
It is an indivisible totality of beliefs that inspire me: belief in God as infinite goodwill and all-seeing Wisdom, whose everlasting arms sustain me walking on the sea of life.†
Chpt 43
I've fed off of it to sustain my work for many years.†
Chpt 53
Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.†
Chpt 57
But it would have been impossible for me to fight at all, except that I was sustained by the personal and deep-rooted belief that my fight had a chance.†
Chpt 62
And, in the largest sense, I believe that what I did was done for me—and that my faith in God sustained me in my fight.†
Chpt 62

Definitions:

(1) (sustain as in: sustained by her faith)
provide support or necessities
(2) (sustain as in: sustained through the ages)
to continue through time
(3) (sustain as in: sustained wounds)
to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, sustained can be voiced by a judge in a court of law to indicate that an objection is upheld.