21.   I knew for two or three years I was going to sustain big losses.

22.   In addition, analysts say, losses sustained during the Persian Gulf war held back plans for international expansion.

23.   In such cases, it is the merchant, not the credit card company, that sustains the loss.

24.   Kornukov said the militants have sustained heavy losses from the air strikes, and that some have retreated, but he gave no specifics.

25.   Large numbers of people who have sustained stock market losses will almost certainly cut back their spending.

26.   Paton figures any business with a phone and a disgruntled employee can sustain a loss.

27.   Regardless of what Leeson did, Moe cautioned, there is no guarantee that other trading houses will not sustain devastating losses just as easily.

28.   Religious conservatives, at best, sustained no losses in the House, although they appeared to have increased their numbers in the Senate.

29.   Some of the manufacturers sustained losses when the drugs they bought from Flavine were seized by federal investigators.

30.   The fund makes sense only for people who can afford to sustain substantial losses.