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While he has been suspended from presidential duties since 14 December after lawmakers voted to impeach him, he can only be removed from office if his impeachment is sustained by the country's constitutional court.

From BBC

Mr Fleming maintained that he had been hit first “so he had hit him back” but the court also heard that Mr Fleming had been remorseful and “upset by the level of injury” sustained by the 74-year-old.

From BBC

Nebraska’s three scoring drives had something in common: They were sustained by an unsportsmanlike penalty on the Bruins.

Other lies asserted that Black people weren’t as smart or chaste or hardworking as white people, even though many examples to the contrary abounded, and even though the entire Southern plantation economy was sustained by forced labor under the most brutal conditions.

From Salon

Another bill that was approved, AB 828, is aimed at improving safeguards for managed wetlands that are sustained by groundwater pumping, as well as rural communities that depend on wells.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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