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sustained English

Meaning sustained meaning

What does sustained mean?

sustained

maintained at length without interruption or weakening sustained flight (= free burning) (of an electric arc) continuous heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs

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Simple sentences

The judge sustained the objection.
The F1 champion Michael Schumacher sustained a serious head injury.
Tom sustained minor injuries when he was struck by a car on the pedestrian crossing.
Tom sustained minor injuries.
The objection is sustained.
The judge sustained the lawyer's objections.
Tom sustained severe injuries in the accident.
Many buildings sustained substantial damage.

Movie subtitles

She has sustained severe burns.
Amelia Bluman, A Car Thief And Con Artist Also Known As Yoga, Died Later From Injuries Sustained During The Escape.
OBJECTION SUSTAINED.
YOU SUSTAINED THE OBJECTION?
At half-past twelve today, James Valentine departed this life as a result of illness and fatigue sustained at Cape Horn.
Sustained.
Objection sustained.
Sustained. Not so rough, Jack.
You sustained the objection?
Objection! Sustained.
Sustained. Since when have anonymous letters become gospel in law?
I too sustained a great loss.
When he launches his attack, it's going to be a sustained barrage on this area.
Motion sustained.
Leading. - Sustained.
Moreover, I've arrived at the age where platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
Sustained. Jurors are instructed to disregard counsel's statement.
I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade.
For one whole day and night. it sustained me on that soft and dirge-like main.
Objection sustained. - You sustained the objection?
Objection. Objection sustained.
If my memory serves me well, Your Lordship's similar objection in the king against Sullivan was sustained.
Fortunately, the casualties sustained have been restricted to this one general area.
Only slight damage was sustained.
An actor in films cannot build up a sustained part. Impossible.
It's not the loss I have sustained.
Pleased not to have sustained a positive loss, gain offered by having positive to others.

News and current affairs

Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
It is also difficult to grasp why China is so reluctant to reduce its bilateral surplus, given meager returns on its massive holdings of US government securities and a sustained risk of large capital losses in the future.
This needs to be done on a sustained basis following the withdrawal of extraordinary fiscal stimulus.
The world must fervently hope that the Turkish proposal for a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform is more serious and sustained than previous similar efforts.
The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.
Panics no longer occurred, which stabilized the financial system and contributed to sustained post-war economic growth.
Therein lies the path to sustained peace.
Monitoring external balances can be an effective tool to measure future default risks, since sustained current-account deficits lead to a growth in net foreign debt.
The sustained focus of the media on him, to the point of near saturation, focused world attention on the Palestinian Question once again.
Sustained work-related stress is also an important determinant of depressive disorders - the fourth-largest cause of disease world-wide.
If sustained, stress is often maladaptive and eventually disease provoking.
Fear of these costs, combined with IMF bailouts, kept Argentina from abandoning its currency board long after it was clear that the system could not be sustained.
But if the recovery is to be sustained credit must be expanded, either by creating new financial institutions or by expanding existing ones.
The peg did lower inflation; but it did not promote sustained growth.
But there is a new and growing danger that these advances might not be sustained.
But the expansion came to a shuddering halt in 2008, the first year in decades in which aggregate financial assets fell, and there is still little sign of a sustained recovery.
And a massive default, together with a very large sustained cut in the annual budget deficit, is, in fact, needed to restore Greek fiscal sustainability.
This can work in the short term, but it cannot be sustained over time.
That downshift, in the face of sustained rapid job creation, implies an unmistakable deceleration of productivity.
Yet, for advanced economies, periods of sustained rapid productivity growth have been the exception, not the rule.
Only by pursuing genuine, deep, and sustained engagement, both at home and abroad, can the next administration ensure that the coming years will be better than the last.
The investment required for competitive revival and sustained recovery cannot be funded without a long-overdue improvement in US saving.
The dramatic weakening of the US dollar may help America to narrow its massive trade deficit, but we should not expect any sustained improvement without drastic changes in American management.
Yet, despite this good news, the continent's politics have turned upside down, calling into question whether economic success can be sustained.
The main weakness of Latin America's economies is that they will be unable to generate the type of rapid and sustained growth required to create jobs and reduce inequality and poverty.
These countries' people need to start gradual, sustained, and serious political reform now.

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