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Definition of Sustaining
1. sustain [v] - See also: sustain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sustaining
Literary usage of Sustaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... a judgment for the amount of the debt due by the defendant in fi. fa. ; and
where the judge, in addition to sustaining the certiorari, enters up final ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"A paper was read by Edward S. Clarke, Esq., on an Improvement which he had lately
made in the sustaining Battery, and on the size proper to be given to the ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"446, 71 NW 234 (see 37 LRA 464), sustaining act authorizing extension of party wall
... 271, 35 NW 550, sustaining Wisconsin drainage act of 1885; Traute v. ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"By his success in sustaining the character at a masquerade he roused the jealousy
of several small actors hired for the occasion, and according to his ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"the Duke of Berwick had so little hopes of its sustaining a Siege that he had
order'd him to burn the town, and retire with his garison into Kerry"v. ..."
6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Decree of the District Court, sustaining two of the conveyances (235 Fed. 626),
was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals (250 Fed. ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... a judgment for the amount of the debt due by the defendant in fi. fa. ; and
where the judge, in addition to sustaining the certiorari, enters up final ..."
8. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"A paper was read by Edward S. Clarke, Esq., on an Improvement which he had lately
made in the sustaining Battery, and on the size proper to be given to the ..."
9. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"446, 71 NW 234 (see 37 LRA 464), sustaining act authorizing extension of party wall
... 271, 35 NW 550, sustaining Wisconsin drainage act of 1885; Traute v. ..."
10. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"By his success in sustaining the character at a masquerade he roused the jealousy
of several small actors hired for the occasion, and according to his ..."
11. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"the Duke of Berwick had so little hopes of its sustaining a Siege that he had
order'd him to burn the town, and retire with his garison into Kerry"v. ..."
12. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Decree of the District Court, sustaining two of the conveyances (235 Fed. 626),
was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals (250 Fed. ..."
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