1) The extraordinary thing about these life-and-death medical ethics cases is that they knit a tangled web of contradictory principles.

2) In answering such life-and-death questions, he gets no help from electronics.

3) We're dealing with a life-and-death situation here.

4) Mr. Kelleher's office has a red box for what he calls "life-and-death constituent case work."

5) The new guidelines on what could be a life-and-death decision have prompt a fierce debate with critics saying that nurses have neither the training or experience necessary.

6) Over millennia of focusing on life-and-death issues,[http:///life-and-death.html] our nervous systems have evolved to pay attention to some things more than others.

7) Was the life-and-death crisis at AIG triggered by a false rumor from a New York law firm?

8) As war sweeps across the galaxy, life-and-death struggles like this occur on every scrap of interplanetary dust that can support life.

9) In the field of health, fairness matters in life-and-death ways.

10) There are, of course, no answers to the life-and-death issues Mr. McCarthy raises, but there are more rigorous, coherent ways to frame the questions.

11) As I said, equity in health matters in life-and-death ways. It matters most especially in times of crisis.

12) "Can reading and writing be a life-and-death matter?" British Army Maj.

13) However, despite his life-and-death battle with Diaz, Marquez should not be viewed as shopworn by any stretch of the imagination. Clean living and a Spartan work ethic has preserved him to an extent.

14) With only one ambition, a woman always regards love and bearing as her life-and-death matters.

15) These are the goals that make the most immediate life-and-death difference for so many millions of people.

16) Such a sincere friendship born amid the fire of war and the life-and-death struggle serves as a solid foundation and powerful driving force for the constant progress of China-Russia relations.

17) America's rivalry with China (and to a lesser extent India) is nothing like the life-and-death struggle against the Soviet Union.

18) Again, we will see how different health care capacities in different countries can make a life-and-death difference.

19) The mission was over, the field work ended, the split-second, life-and-death decisions made.

20) Traffic: The Miniseries , the nice movie, shows a life-and-death struggle for most secret agents on America's borders.

21) "Nowadays more people are willing to discuss death, make their wills and plan their funerals ahead, " said Yang Kuo-chu, a professor at the Department of Life-and-Death Studies at Nanhua University.

22) She knew, though, that the lack of clean water was a life-and-death problem in sub-Saharan rural villages.

23) The boy was brought to a hospital in Oakland, CA where he had to undergo dozens of life-and-death surgeries.