Word Finder - sustenance

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Something that provides support or nourishment.

Katie watched her go, feeling better with the otherworldly sustenance in her system.

Blood is your sustenance.

Time was when this area's families spent their lives here, from birth to death with the soil providing their sustenance and the earth the riches, at least for a few.

They both set off into the Liverpool night seeking sustenance.

I mean real food, sustenance.

At last John of Giscala portioned out the sacred wine and oil, saying that they who fought for the Temple might fearlessly use its stores for their sustenance.

The healer stopped to rest and pushed immortal sustenance --small square water and food cubes - -into her mouth.

And it equates to the hunter-gatherer who got sustenance by hunting mastodons and gathering berries.

This would result in a reduction of the overall vulnerability of the countries by offering additional sustenance to the economies.

I began to practice yoga and meditation, and developed through these, the capacity to depend far more upon myself for emotional sustenance.

Our sandwich team had meanwhile been hard at work to supply more sustenance for the hard working players.

I know how to have very very little of daily sustenance.

Visitors to the area need sustenance, just as Chaucer's pilgrims did as they set off for Canterbury from the Tabard Inn.

Yet more sustenance at the visitor center here eventually did the trick and the few miles back to Morvich went quite well.

What goes unperceived is the destruction in nature and in people 's sustenance economy that this growth creates.

The frightened creature is as ill prepared for the season as I and scurries about frantically in the deepening snow in search of sustenance.

She handed the pale woman a food and water cube and popped two of her own.  Standing, she waded into the brush where she'd thrown the knife.  It glinted in the morning light.  Katie swiped it, glad the trees didn't have a taste for metal as well as Immortal sustenance.

The emperor retained the supreme courts of appeal within the cities, and his claim for sustenance at their expense when he came into Italy.

Four oboli a day, earned by copying manuscripts, sufficed for his bodily sustenance.

The French, on the other hand, had great difficulty in establishing any such reserves of food, owing to their practice of depending for sustenance entirely upon the country in which they were quartered.

Its usual haunts are the shallow margins of the larger lakes and rivers, where fishes are plentiful, since it requires for its sustenance a vast supply of them.

The inorganic materials within it supply some of the chief substances utilized by plants for their development and growth, and from plants animals obtain much of their sustenance.

The early German governments whose chief functions, military, judicial, financial, legislative, were carried on by the freemen of the nation because they were members of the body politic, and were performed as duties owed to the community for its defence and sustenance, no longer existed.

For we offer to God the bread and the cup of blessing (€ Xoyia), thanking him for that he bade the earth produce these fruits for our sustenance.

In winter, when the plants are at rest, little water will be necessary; but in the case of those plants which have no fleshy pseudobulbs to fall back upon for sustenance, they must not be suffered to become so dry as to cause the leaves to shrivel.

Defective, however, as they may have been, and unfounded in fact, his kabbalistic doctrines led him to trace the dependence of the human body upon outer nature for its sustenance and cure.

He first proposed to establish his paper at Washington, in the midst of slavery, but on returning to New England and observing the state of public opinion there, he came to the conclusion that little could be done at the South while the non-slaveholding North was lending her influence, through political, commercial, religious and social channels, for the sustenance of slavery.

Gardiner speaks of the final shape of Charles's measure as " a wise and beneficent reform "; and he did aim at recovering the "teinds" or tithes, and securing something like a satisfactory sustenance for ministers.

But since, in the middle ages, the Holy Land was no longer held by a Christian Power, the protection of the pilgrims was no less necessary than their sustenance.

In fact such pastures are essential to the inhabitants of pastoral alpine districts, for the fodder to be obtained in the valley itself would not suffice to support the number of cattle which are required to afford sustenance to the inhabitants.

The milk given each day by each cow is entered in a book, and then made into butter and cheese, the cow-herds and cheese-makers having the right to a certain proportion of milk, butter and cheese for their own sustenance, and receiving a small sum per head of cattle for looking after them.

Restrictions necessary for the proper conservancy of the forests are, however, imposed, and the system of shifting cultivation, which denudes a large area of forest growth in order to place a small area under crops, is held to cost more to the community than it is worth, and is only permitted, under due regulation, where forest tribes depend on it for their sustenance.

But Octavianus could not allow the capital to be kept in alarm for its daily sustenance.

Depending mainly for food on the seeds of conifers, the movements of crossbills are irregular beyond those of most birds, and they would seem to rove in any direction and at any season in quest of their staple sustenance.

St Francis did not intend that begging and alms should be the normal means of sustenance for his friars; on the contrary, he intended them to live by the work of their hands, and only to have recourse to begging when they could not earn their livelihood by work.

The hay crop, 865,000 tons in 1909, is made quite largely from wild grasses and grains cut green; on the irrigated lands alfalfa is grown extensively for the cattle and sheep, which are otherwise almost wholly dependent for sustenance upon the bunch grass of the semi-arid plains.

On many of these desolate rocks, which could have afforded only the barest sustenance, there are remains of the dwellings and churches of early religious settlers who sought solitude here.

He took his bread and canteen of water—the morning sustenance for a slave—and tucked them into a cargo pocket.

The image Jesus uses is of himself being a vine and of his followers being branches which draw sustenance and nourishment from the vine.

There are many charities like hers which are aiming to provide material sustenance.

The birds need sustenance to ensure they are fit enough to breed.

We want to make sure kids with science minds are given sustenance.

For many people it is also a source of spiritual sustenance.

And when we needed a little sustenance, there were plenty of good restaurants, bars and coffee shops to choose from.

Everyone retired back to the club for some excellent and much needed sustenance, starting with the solids and progressing to the liquids.

For the larvae of their makers the galls provide shelter and sustenance.

Visitors to the area need sustenance, just as Chaucer 's pilgrims did as they set off for Canterbury from the Tabard Inn.

The cozy ambiance and yummy sustenance of a ski chalet holiday is the trendy option at present with numerous skiers.

Secured business loans are the sustenance of any kind of business.

Its meadow land - Mickle Mead, was once crucial for the sustenance of the whole community.