Example Sentences

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Government Accountability Office examined in its recent review of IP and sustainment planning.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

For years, the Pentagon has procured a pittance of missiles, hovering around the minimum sustainment rate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

There are already 17 sustainable development goals and the scientists are urging an 18th that would promote space conservation and sustainment of Earth's orbit, particularly to prevent the accumulation of space junk.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2025

We are likely to see a sustainment of the increased defence spending across the board, as states around the globe adjust away from what has been a relatively benign period.”

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

But he, touching as he is in the humility and tender unselfishness of his love, is too exclusively of the artist temperament to give direction or sustainment to the deeper moral requirements of her being. 

From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by Brown, John Crombie