Witnesses said a hospital in the capital collapsed, a luxury hotel in Petionville had sustained major damage and many other buildings were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

If the rate of population growth of the United States between 1820 and 1850 had sustained over time, we'd have today approximately one and a half billion people in the United States.

如果在1820至1850年间,美国人口增长率保持下去的话,今天我们的美国,就会拥有近十五亿人口

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Analysts say it remains to be seen whether the Palestinians' unilateral effort to get a U.N.security endorsement of a Palestinian state will be sustained or is no more than a publicity stunt meant to get Israel to make concessions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"They are playing games, they are manipulating the Medicare trust fund, they are sticking it to our seniors, and our kids are going to get a massive bill, a massive bill for this, because this new entitlement that is being funded, will not be able to be sustained,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.24