verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sustained campaign (= lasting a long time )
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The organization has mounted a sustained campaign against the killing of endangered species.
a sustained effort (= one that you continue making for a long time )
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It will take a sustained effort over the next 5 years to achieve our objectives.
a sustained recovery (= that continues for a long time )
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Will these policies provide a basis for sustained recovery and sustained growth?
maintain/sustain growth
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Governments that want to survive have to maintain growth.
suffer/sustain damage formal
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She has suffered damage to her hearing.
sustain/receive an injury formal (= suffer an injury )
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She sustained an injury to her hip.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
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Stamina relates to the efficiency of the heart and lungs and their ability to sustain effort without becoming tired and breathless.
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Only in this case can breathing and heartbeat continue independently of the patient's own ability to sustain them.
damage
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The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed.
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The medieval tower of the town hall of Foligno, near Assisi, also sustained further damage .
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If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins.
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Squash and green beans sustained the worst damage , with 50 percent 70 percent, respectively, of these crops lost.
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His home sustained some damage , but mostly remained intact.
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Though still standing, the basilica itself has sustained terrible damage .
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As for the Tirpitz, her crew received a considerable scare but the ship itself sustained no damage .
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Both ships sustained major damage , but no one was injured or killed.
effort
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Tranmere's football is high-octane stuff sustained by sheer effort .
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Their weakness has been sustaining the effort .
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Stamina relates to the efficiency of the heart and lungs and their ability to sustain effort without becoming tired and breathless.
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At each juncture, there is a breakdown in attention because the work requires sustained conscious effort .
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What has been designed to sustain the effort ?
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Yet his sustained effort to create a science built of subtle perceptions and participatory consciousness places him prominently in the Romantic project.
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In kindergarten and first grade, how-ever, sustaining independent effort is rarely required.
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Low self-confidence also made it difficult for Sean to sustain independent effort .
growth
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Pleine Vie's readership reflects a market that is forecasting solid and sustained demographic growth well into the next decade.
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As for yearnings for high-fat foods, these are the foods necessary in our very early years to sustain rapid growth .
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Steady and sustained economic growth will generate jobs that last.
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To sustain our impressive growth , the following vacancies now exist.
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The years of an exuberant commercial sector fuelling sustained growth appear to be coming to an end.
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Employment, the second, and trickiest, component, must depend on a return to sustained economic growth .
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It is much more difficult to sustain growth once the novelty has worn off.
home
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For example, fire risk clients could be sustained at home if they had 24-hour-a-day surveillance.
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Even so, they were generally being sustained at home at a cost below that of institutional care.
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There are several reasons for this concern with dementia sufferers and with finding ways of sustaining them at home .
injury
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There had been conflicting opinions by individual judges on whether injuries must be sustained by a living person before next-of-kin could sue.
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During the eighteenth century a young man fell into the cellar and succumbed to the injuries he sustained .
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In 1986 the local authority became concerned about injuries which D had sustained and they obtained a place of safety order.
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This time around, Dirk Pitt is nursing injuries sustained during a volcanic eruption.
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They charged Dad with obstructing the police, and claimed that all our injuries had been sustained in the struggle.
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If the injury sustained was an inherent risk of the procedure, then the doctrine will be inapplicable.
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The inquest was told the injuries were sustained during convulsions induced by narcotics.
interest
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People have a limited capacity to sustain interest in politics.
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Let training or practice in those areas sustain your interest .
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Moreover, both parties found it impossible to sustain widespread interest in political organization.
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A: It is rare for a child to sustain interest in reading material that is completely beyond him.
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It is fast-moving, there is skill to be admired, and plenty of off-the-puck incident to sustain our interest .
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There are limits to what technology can achieve in the absence of sustained , high-level government interest in agricultural policy.
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But, to their credit, the Fifties sustained its interest at maximum heat.
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One process improvement technique, for example, failed to sustain interest .
level
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The original owners could not sustain the necessary level of investment so the company has now been sold.
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Unfortunately, the margins won't sustain the level of investment.
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No neat distinction between legal doctrine and political principle can be sustained at this level of adjudication.
life
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Death is the removal of all the possibilities which sustain us in our lives .
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I was very happy in a professional sense, and I found community life as sustaining as community life can be.
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A friendship, begun in their twenties, had been sustained throughout their lives .
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That they use leaves to produce the energy they need to sustain life ?
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Local post offices, local transport and local schools all have an important role to play in sustaining rural life .
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The situation improved, but regular food rations were still barely sufficient to sustain a healthy life .
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Its distance from the Sun was just right to sustain life , providing the right kind of equable temperatures and flowing water.
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Hollywood was bigger than life; it sustained life; it was life .
loss
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We're prepared to sustain losses for several years while we get it going.
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Bedford had sustained substantial losses in the post-Fort Sumter turmoil.
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Public pension funds have experimented with such investments and have sustained huge losses .
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The county's row crops sustained the greatest losses .
population
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Other crops can not sustain the increased population , but you can build empires on maize.
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The sustained good health of populations requires enlightened management of our social resources, economic relations, and of the natural world.
■ VERB
create
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I have already mentioned the failure of the paramilitaries to create and sustain a political initiative.
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If the euro is created and sustained , this will inevitably have important consequences for the United States.
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Believing in the other person - extending trust - helps to create and sustain constancy and trustworthiness.
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The culture-ideology of consumerism produces the values and attitudes that create and sustain the need for the products.
help
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Through this, her love can be tempered into a compassion and understanding with which she can help and sustain others.
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Lost or found, documents help to sustain the hearings, Sarbanes said.
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This hierarchical approach to art's histories has helped sustain the exclusivity of the `-isms' approach.
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In the West, enthusiastic books and articles helped to sustain the illusion.
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Believing in the other person - extending trust - helps to create and sustain constancy and trustworthiness.
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At the same time, computers helped sustained the trading frenzy prompted by human error.
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They do also help to achieve and sustain rapport and stimulate the respondent's thinking.
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This can help to sustain , protect and help healthy growth as well as give you peace of mind.
need
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In the West similar acquisition machines have struggled to find the ever-bigger targets needed to sustain their high share prices.
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The water Tucson needs to sustain its unhealthy rate of growth will not be available.
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It needs you to sustain its welfare work and it can help you by providing comradeship and support.
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He supports the programs and encourages the creativity needed to sustain them, he said.
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Capitalists were forced to concede the wage rises which for the system as a whole were needed to sustain accumulation.
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That they use leaves to produce the energy they need to sustain life?
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We know that the right hon. Gentleman would add to taxation, for he needs to in order to sustain his promises.
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The current stars are generators of profits which may need investment to sustain their position.
require
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What our public services require is sustained year-on-year investment over many years.
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At each juncture, there is a breakdown in attention because the work requires sustained conscious effort.
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But these things aside, what operating managers need and want most are the resources required to sustain and improve performance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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More public works construction could help sustain job growth.
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The floor cannot sustain the weight of a piano.
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The planet cannot sustain more than 6 billion people.
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The program needs sustained government involvement to survive.
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The thought of getting home was the only thing that sustained me in the hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A series of twitches builds up muscle tension into a sustained contraction.
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Cook sustained that injury during the win over Basingstoke last month.
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Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain .
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It could be suggested that this is one determining factor in whether teachers are able to effect and sustain change.
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Similarly in the international arena, an emasculated politics is incapable of sustaining an effective national defense.
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This did not prove sufficient to sustain the cocoa economy.
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Trees are a renewable resource that when managed properly can sustain our needs indefinitely.