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To carry on; to maintain. To affirm, uphold or approve, as when an appellate court sustains the decision of a lower court. To grant, as when a judge sustains an objection to testimony or evidence, he or she agrees with the objection and gives it effect. sustain v. in trial practice, for a judge to agree that a question asked of a witness is objectionable. Thus, an attorney asks the witness a question, and the opposing lawyer objects, saying the question is "irrelevant, immaterial and incompetent," "leading," "argumentative," or some other objection. If the judge agrees he/she will rule "sustained," meaning the objection is sustained (approved) and the question cannot be asked or answered. However, if the judge finds the question proper, he/she will "over-rule" the objection. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And they ask you about mountains, say: 'My Sustainer will scatter them like dust [far and wide] and leave the earth level and bare; you shall see no crookedness and no height. Isabella Case, wife of Jankyn Dey of Hereford diocese, was "a common defamer and sustainer of quarrels. This is not to understate the performance of our Airmen, maintainers, and sustainers who consistently yield theater operational availability and have done so magnificently since the mid-90s. |
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