English-Spanish translations for sustain

• sostener
• aguantar
  Lo que les permite aguantar es el apoyo popular. What sustains them is grass-roots support.
• persistir
  De manera que persistirá la necesidad de cazar focas para asegurar la sostenibilidad de los caladeros en determinadas zonas. Therefore, there will remain the need for seals to be hunted to ensure the sustainability of fisheries in some area.
• resistir
  Esta es la única forma en que seremos capaces de lograr un crecimiento sostenible en Europa y para resistir a la presión creciente de la globalización. This is the only way we will be able to achieve sustainable growth in Europe and resist the ever-growing pressure of globalisation.
  De hecho, tiene una habilidad natural para resistir la globalización y, en consecuencia, para sostener el empleo y asegurar su justa distribución en todo Europa. Indeed, it has a natural ability to withstand globalisation and, consequently, to sustain employment and ensure its fair distribution throughout Europe.
  Nuestro Parlamento ha logrado resistir las presiones para imponer una austeridad presupuestaria en detrimento de nuestras prioridades, en particular en el ámbito del desarrollo sostenible. Our Parliament has managed to resist the pressures to impose budgetary austerity at the expense of our priorities, particularly in the area of sustainable development.
• sustentar
  Unas normas diferentes sustentarán una cultura diferente. Different rules will sustain a different culture.
  El desequilibrio que todo esto origina, no se puede sustentar. The resulting imbalance cannot be sustained.
  Debemos sustentar la operación, y el apoyo del Parlamento es muy importante a ese respecto. We need to sustain the operation, and the support of the Parliament is very important in this respect.
• tolerar
  Después de todo, el señor Juncker y sus colegas han decidido que hay que mantener la monarquía belga sin tolerar ninguna oposición. After all, Mr Juncker and his colleagues have decreed, without tolerating any opposition, that the Belgian monarchy must be sustained.

Definition of sustain

• To maintain, or keep in existence
• To provide for or nourish
• To encourage or sanction .
• To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold
• To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support
• To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate
• A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano

Examples

• The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
• The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
• provisions to sustain an army
• The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
• to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
• A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

Related words

• sustained
• sustainability
• sustainable
• unsustainable
• sustainably
• unsustainability
• self-sustaining
• sustainer
• sustainment