0 to cause or allow something to continue for a period of time -- поддерживать
The team may not be able to sustain this level of performance.
1 to support someone or something so that they can live or exist -- обеспечивать, содержать
2 to be injured/damaged, etc. -- получать повреждение/переносить травму/нести потери
It is also apparent that some non-democratic political elites used a cultural argument to sustain their rule and rejection of liberal social norms.
By the combined hard work of men, women and even children, these families somehow managed to get by, earning just enough to sustain themselves.
Institutional arrangements and enacted beliefs sustain and reproduce this social grid.
The results of quasi-static creep tests demonstrated that the response of biofilms under sustained shear stresses was time dependent.
And high stocks of social capital, in turn, make it possible to sustain social co-operation.
In addition, levels of trophic substances required for maintenance of neuronal pathways will be better sustained.
Stereotypes lacking even a kernel of truth are hard to sustain and unlikely to spread.
It is unlikely that such a program could be sustained.
