1 He sustained a broken rib.

2 Four police officers sustained serious injuries in the explosion.

3 Witnesses say the firing was deliberate and sustained.

4 But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.

5 He sustained injuries to his arms,[] legs and several internal organs.

6 The love and support of his family sustained him during his time in prison.

7 He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family.

8 She sustained multiple injuries in the accident.

9 Some nearby buildings sustained minor damage.

10 The company has sustained heavy losses this year.

11 Several train passengers received/sustained serious injuries in the crash.

12 Sustained by you,I, at long last, finished my work.

13 The company has sustained heavy financial losses this year.

14 The business sustained losses of ￡20 million.

15 The clapping was sustained for several minutes.

16 The president's speech was greeted by sustained applause.

17 An unshakable belief sustained me.

18 The judge sustained the lawyer's objection.

19 The economy entered on a period of sustained growth.

20 The company sustained losses of millions of dollars.

21 Two of the fire-fighters sustained serious injuries.

22 Most buildings sustained only minimal damage in the earthquake.

23 He had sustained a cut on his left eyebrow.

24 He sustained a foot injury.

25 The other ship sustained only minor damage .

26 He sustained a severe blow on the head.

27 There can be no war nowadays between civilized nations, nor any peace that is not hollow and delusive unless sustained and backed up by the sentiment of the people who are parties to it. 

28 Now the cheers and applause mingled in a single sustained roar.

29 At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.

30 We don't have the confidence that the UN will carry through a sustained program.

1 He sustained a broken rib.

2 Four police officers sustained serious injuries in the explosion.

3 Witnesses say the firing was deliberate and sustained.

4 But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.

5 He sustained injuries to his arms, legs and several internal organs.

6 The love and support of his family sustained him during his time in prison.

7 Now the cheers and applause mingled in a single sustained roar.

8 He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family.

9 At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.

10 We don't have the confidence that the UN will carry through a sustained program.

11 The clapping was sustained for several minutes.

12 An unshakable belief sustained me.

13 He sustained a foot injury.

14 He sustained an injury to his spine when he fell off his horse.

15 Bats are the only mammals to have wings and to achieve sustained flight.

31 Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage.

32 They came under sustained attack from the air.

33 He suffered/sustained multiple fractures in a motorcycle accident.

34 He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.

35 The court sustained his claim that the contract was illegal.

36 The driver of the truck sustained only minor injuries to his legs and arms.

37 America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.

38 The love of my family and friends sustained me through my ordeal.

39 She was sustained by the strength of her religious faith.

40 Grandfather Dingsdale had sustained a broken back while working in the mines. Consequently,[] he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

41 It has been the largest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country.

42 He sustained an injury to his spine when he fell off his horse.

43 We must make a sustained effort to get this task finished this week.

44 Sustained nuclear fusion is the holy grail of the power industry.

45 She used the article to make a sustained assault on her former political allies.

46 His request to be release on probation has not been sustained .

47 Bats are the only mammals to have wings and to achieve sustained flight.

48 "I very much regret the injuries he sustained," he said.

49 One rescue worker caught in the explosion sustained severe burns.

50 A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday'sbomb blast.

51 He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.

52 Damages are not designed to punish the person in breach, but to compensate for the loss sustained.

53 The thought of seeing her again was all that sustained me.

54 The luckless defender, Mark Emery, sustained his third injury of the season.

55 These low birth rates were sustained for twenty years.

56 According to some reports, both sides sustained heavy casualties.

57 No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire 

58 His home sustained some damage, but mostly remained intact.

59 Per capita food consumption was sustained but not increased.

60 But nothing sustained and organised of this kind was ever contemplated in London.

61 Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest.

62 The Sprint service provides a committed information rate, guaranteeing a minimum sustained throughput.

63 The injured party sustained a cut above the eyebrow and bruising to the cheek.

64 The Fellowships have a primary end in themselves in providing the route to sustained abstinence from mood-altering substances and behaviours.

65 Both ships sustained major damage,[/sustained.html] but no one was injured or killed.

66 B Company had already sustained heavy casualties from the landing and the patrol lost.

67 Robert dived into the shallow end of the pool at Nettlebed and sustained a broken neck and back injuries.

68 The position was now to be reviewed to ascertain whether production was at last to be increased and sustained.

69 The audience of 2, 500 responded to his declaration with sustained and thunderous applause.

70 The chant is certain to be sustained until the International Board announce their decision at their annual meeting in Auckland next April.

71 The greater its dependence on others, the less its ability to issue credible threats or to mobilise for sustained hostilities.

72 Splinters of wood were driven under his fingernails, and his face sustained such mutilations that he was scarcely recognizable.

73 Even so, they were generally being sustained at home at a cost below that of institutional care.

74 It did not suggest a wound of honour or an injury sustained for political conviction.

75 His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling.

76 However, allosteric positive feedback is not sufficient to produce sustained oscillations.

77 During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics.

78 I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army.

79 On opening the door and passing through the doorway the plaintiff immediately fell down a flight of steps and sustained injury.

80 It proved a fitting finale to what had been the first period of sustained fighting in the war.

81 Positive Richardson number corresponds to a stabilizing density gradient; turbulent motion can not be sustained when Ri becomes large.

82 The rebel forces had launched their latest offensive in mid-March with a sustained artillery barrage and ground attack.

83 Creating a living wonder at the scale of Bio2 could only be described as an experiment in sustained chaos.

84 Stamina or endurance refers to your capacity to keep up a certain level of sustained exercise.

85 It sustained a lot of fire damage when the labs went up.

86 Business needs sustained and balanced growth, stable exchange rates, steady and competitive interest rates and low inflation.

87 All the instrumentalists, of course, weave solos through this fabric of sustained notes, but the focal point is Threadgill.

88 It will not get tougher without sustained and articulate pressure from women.

89 Stephany received loud, sustained applause when complimented by Roberts yesterday.

90 The only reason I stayed in my marriage was because my faith in religion sustained me.

91 Presumably, this is a politically expedient decision; but how long can this car dependence be sustained?

92 But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit.

93 It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.

94 During seizures,[] there was a sustained increase in extracellular glutamate to potentially neurotoxic concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus.

95 The medieval tower of the town hall of Foligno, near Assisi, also sustained further damage.

96 Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter.

97 Aesthetic attention, therefore, consists of engaging the focus of attention in a heightened sustained discrimination.

98 He said spiralling public sector borrowing was the greatest threat to a sustained economic recovery.

99 These provide a sustained steam of energy during the prolonged physical exertion required for professional cycling or tennis.

100 Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?

101 The boy sustained a fractured left arm and was taken by ambulance to San Jose Medical Center.

102 The sustained applause that followed suggested they may get their wish.

103 Thus epileptic seizures often began with a sustained tachycardia in spite of apnoeic pauses and severe hypoxaemia.

104 It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began.

105 A sustained advertising onslaught will be required for growth to continue until an expected flotation in April 2002.

106 Employment, the second, and trickiest, component, must depend on a return to sustained economic growth.

107 The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.

108 Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.

109 But this ideology, though revolutionary in content, in fact sustained capitalist relations of production in general and big business in particular.

110 His wife, Susan, sustained a permanent nerve pinch in her back, and Ellison was shaken to his core.

111 Essentially the project will assess the question of whether a competitive advantage can be sustained through planned technological change.

112 His bulky life of Russell is a sustained attack, in which he lays two charges against the philosopher.

113 It is not yet clear though whether this marks the beginning of a sustained upturn or an aberrant blip on the graph.

114 Fewer interactions, therefore, indicate more sustained conversations between teachers and their pupils.

115 At the bottom of the garden his brethren of the cloth were submitting his character to a sustained and vicious mauling.

116 The policies they sell offer cash payouts in the event of injuries, disability or death sustained in a road crash.

117 She sustained a mild concussion in the game against the Xplosion, and was held out of action.

118 At the same time, computers helped sustained the trading frenzy prompted by human error.

119 In the absence of mathematical proofs of security, nothing builds confidence in a cryptosystem like sustained attempts to crack it.

120 No neat distinction between legal doctrine and political principle can be sustained at this level of adjudication.

121 As for the Tirpitz, her crew received a considerable scare but the ship itself sustained no damage.

122 This reaction produces a great deal of heat which spreads in the fuel and a sustained burning is produced.

123 He settled on Dunlop slicks with a compound designed for sustained high-speed running.

124 The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley.

124 is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

125 Everything, therefore, resides in and is sustained within one absolute consciousness.

126 She felt battered into numbness by the sustained assault on her diminishing reserves.

127 The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed.

128 Nevertheless, sustained horticulture needs an abundant supply of organic waste to maintain soil structure and fertility.

129 Squash and green beans sustained the worst damage, with 50 percent 70 percent, respectively, of these crops lost.

130 The way lay open for a sustained attack on environmentalism.

131 Many had planned future campaigns on the basis of sustained growth.

132 By including bosses you will be improving your chances of inflicting casualties and reducing the number of casualties sustained.

133 They are alarmed at the sustained physical effort of the Broomfield players and the manner in which they battle for possession.

134 Today, with highly mobile international capital, large deficits can be sustained for much longer.

135 The Government can expect sustained flak on the wider constitutional issue now that this can of worms has been opened up.

136 The combined choirs sustained the joyful mood with the aptly chosen hymns.

137 However, continued investment of raw materials and capital goods was required if the necessary growth and investment was to be sustained.

138 Most, it had to be recognised, would have been unable to resist a heavy and sustained bombardment.

139 High organizational performance can not be sustained if one or two constituent groups are perpetually rewarded or afflicted.

140 He sustained a broken rib and pulled ligaments in his right leg.

141 Only a handful of civilians have gone through the sustained physical abuse that was routine for combat soldiers searching for Charlie.

142 Oxford sustained their aggressive driving at the start of the second half and forced Cambridge back on their own line.

143 It was just 12 months ago that he sustained a broken ankle against Leigh tomorrow's home opponents.

144 They performed well - many have sustained their popularity for years mainly because they give excellent performance for low cost.

145 The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who, according to their label, have difficulty sustaining anything.

146 Smoothing aims to remove any upward or downward movement in the series that is not part of a sustained trend.

147 The more extreme forms of influence, such as coercion or threat, are unlikely to be sustained over any length of time.

148 There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force.

149 During the course of the year there were only eight cases which got widespread coverage and sustained coverage of several days.

150 These shifts were not without their contradictions and sustained challenges: they were products of complex pressures, and subject to various influences.

151 These aspects have received sustained analysis from recent feminist and social historians.

152 Though still standing, the basilica itself has sustained terrible damage.

153 It is sustained by the greater desire of men to perform it and by their greater aptitude for competition.

154 Running back Garrison Hearst sustained a left shoulder stinger when he crashed into linebacker Jesse Tuggle on a lead block.

154 is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

155 Both materials were removed in a 550-torr helium arc discharge sustained by 28 V at 70 amps d.c.

156 The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions.

157 The sustained discipline required to keep accounts was boringly time-consuming and beyond the capabilities of most.

158 At each juncture, there is a breakdown in attention because the work requires sustained conscious effort.

159 In alcoholic liver disease, transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice.

160 The technique employed was a sustained series of massive B-52 strikes.

161 Yet only three of the passengers sustained fatal injuries from that impact.

162 Set up so it could be sustained by armies of private profit-making firms, it had to be formulaic.

163 One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries.

164 Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom.

165 The Ulster Inter-Pro ace has failed in his battle to recover from a thumb injury sustained during a recent skiing holiday.

166 Sustained aspartate aminotransferase normalisation occurred in 16 of 19 responders with raised aspartate aminotransferase levels on entry to the study.

167 OBJECTIVE : To prepare aciclovir ( Acv ) carbomer ( Cb ) ethylcellulose ( Ec ) microspheres with good bioadhesion and sustained drug release.

168 However, political parties sustained their activities against the autocratic Panchayat system.

169 These animals have contributed to an ecological balance which has sustained man through hundreds of millennia.

170 How such extensive damage could have been sustained so quickly remains unexplained.

171 A DPP legislator sustained a brain injury and is hospitalized.

172 Has the claimant sustained other losses of the same nature? If yes, please give full particulars.

173 The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.