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Example sentences for: sustain

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A scheme so inconsistent with accepted separation-of-powers principles is an insufficient basis to sustain or uphold the restriction on speech.
In the face of continual dilution, the constitutive production of the IL-1Ra gene product was able to maintain effective protein levels and was able to sustain and increase protection of the HSFs from IL-1 stimulation as time progressed.
But supporters of free trade should look beyond the intellectual caliber of these arguments and consider the political realities that sustain them.
Posner feels free to offer conclusions of fact that the public record either cannot sustain or actually refutes."
In order to "sustain a celebratory tone," write the curators, "representations of certain sexual practices or fantasies (those judged by common consensus pathological) were ruled inappropriate for our overarching agenda."