7 sentences with “sustained”

The injuries they had sustained would cripple them forever.

In addition, lightning surely sustained primitive man, since it was his only source of fire.

For the first time in history, the Arabs embarked on a sustained campaign of conquest rather than serving others as mercenaries.

Dwayne received surgical treatment for the injuries he had sustained to the nerves and tissues in his legs, which were terribly bruised.

The Archaic Age saw the revival of sustained contact with foreign cultures, beginning with the development of Greek colonies on the Greek islands and on the west coast of Anatolia;

One strong possibility is that there was a sustained civil war between Mycenaean palace settlements that resulted in a fatal disruption of the economic environment that was essential to their very existence.

There was no sustained resistance to Christianity simply because "polytheism" or "paganism" was never a unified system, and it was impossible for people who worshipped a whole range of gods to unite "against" Christianity, especially when it was the official religion of the Empire itself.