Airbus, the manufacturer, said it was good news, because the damage was small even though the plane had sustained greater lateral forces than it was designed for.

A typical characteristic property of an EAP is that they will undergo a large amount of deformation while sustaining large forces.

Tapered roller bearings are bearings that can take large axial forces as well as being able to sustain large radial forces.

Third, military modernization was aimed at the transformation of the defense establishment into a system capable of independently sustaining modern military forces.

Customers (or business sustaining forces)

Since the 1970's, all of those sustaining forces have lost their power.

It describes the concepts and methods for sustaining large military forces during operations at large distances from traditional logistics centers.

It is certainly a well-known fact which everybody knows that to sustain armed forces requires considerable finance.

Both were sustaining forces.

The transformation of China's defense establishment into a system capable of independently sustaining modern armed forces was one of the major goals of the military modernization program.