What is "life-and-death"

Usage examples of "life-and-death".

His whole attention, his whole being, is down there, engaged in a life-and-death battle with the terrible apparitions of unmastered psychological energies -- which, it would appear, is exactly what the potential shaman also is doing in the period of his visionary journey.

Shutting it down without warning would cause life-and-death intelligence blackouts all over the globe.

The early acts were just warmups, inexperienced fighters building a reputation while getting the feel of genuine life-and-death combat.

Rather than tackle real life-and-death issues, his blood starts to boil when he sees the Ten Commandments on display.

I normally did not even carry it, considering the normal life-and-death dustups not worth this price of winning.

Then a life-and-death scramble through charging traffic into small roads again, past North American-style houses very like their own to the glass-and-plastic village with its Charlie Pops and McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and the funfair where Mark had his arm broken by an enemy bumper car last Fourth of July, and when they got to the hospital it was full of kids with firework burns.

It had elements both of a savage struggle -- a fierce, life-and-death fight -- and of a ceremonial dance with beasts.

C41 didnt know diddly squat about what was going on, but the strikers were used to being in life-and-death situations with no picture bigger than that of their gunsight images.

C41 didn't know diddly squat about what was going on, but the strikers were used to being in life-and-death situations with no picture bigger than that of their gunsight images.

His life-and-death situation helped him learn: his ability to interpret what he was hearing was growing by leaps and bounds.

This was a leglock that would have been illicit in judo, but what were human legality in a life-and-death struggle with an alien creature?

Maybe somewhere up above the clouds there was an old man with a beard making life-and-death decisions in the very same way, tossing coins, shrugging, and passing out train wrecks and heart attacks.

Kelly and Wearne, in their investigation of its lab work, literally a life-and-death matter for those under investigation, quote two English forensic experts on the subject of the Oklahoma City bombing.

After her ordeal, with its life-and-death struggles, nothing as insignificant as a reprimand, whose effectiveness had long since worn thin from overuse, could ruffle her placid composure.