PSA FOR TPA-VINCE
Words can have meaning in context. As in programming TPA you can 'overload' a word's definition based on the parameter(s) you pass into it.
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"....something as trivial as lifting liability limits at a time just like this; sustaining [or bearing->enduring] a filibuster to do so if needed? Out the Republicans. Make the case."
What do you think sustaining means in these cases?
1) sustaining a hardship
2) sustaining an injury
3) sustaining a car crash
That people support hardships, injury, or car crashes?
sus·tain
–verb (used with object)1.to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
2.to bear (a burden, charge, etc.).
3.to undergo, experience, or suffer (injury, loss, etc.); endure without giving way or yielding.
4.to keep (a person, the mind, the spirits, etc.) from giving way, as under trial or affliction.
5.to keep up or keep going, as an action or process: to sustain a conversation.
6.to supply with food, drink, and other necessities of life.
7.to provide for (an institution or the like) by furnishing means or funds.
8.to support (a cause or the like) by aid or approval.
9.to uphold as valid, just, or correct, as a claim or the person making it: The judge sustained the lawyer's objection.
10.to confirm or corroborate, as a statement: Further investigation sustained my suspicions.
—Synonyms
1. carry. See
support. 3. bear. 5. maintain.
bear·ing
  –noun1.the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures: a man of dignified bearing.
2.the act, capability, or period of producing or bringing forth: a tree past bearing.
3.something that is produced; a crop.
4.
the act of enduring or capacity to endure.
5.reference or relation (usually fol. by on): It has some bearing on the problem.
6.Architecture. a.a supporting part of a structure.
b.the area of contact between a bearing member, as a beam, and a pier, wall, or other underlying support.
7.Machinery. the support and guide for a rotating, oscillating, or sliding shaft, pivot, or wheel.
8.Often, bearings. direction or relative position: The pilot radioed his bearings.
9.Surveying. a horizontal direction expressed in degrees east or west of a true or magnetic north or south direction.
10.Heraldry. any single device on an escutcheon; charge.
en·dur·ing
–adjective
1.lasting; permanent: a poet of enduring greatness.
2.patient; long-suffering
en·dure
–verb (used with object)
1.to hold out against;
sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo: to endure great financial pressures with equanimity.
2.to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate: I cannot endure your insults any longer.
3.to admit of; allow; bear: His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading.
