Life And Death

In the 1930s, when the Depression made competition over jobs and housing a life-and-death contest, many Italian Americans began to heed the calls to distance themselves from “bad” Americans. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Some expressions of Romanticism were of such stress-inducing, life-and-death intensity that they led followers to be diagnosed with clusters of symptoms named after the artworks that caused them. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The refusal of the Court to recognize new constitutional rights on life-and-death issues is also apparent in other contexts where vulnerable individuals were denied essential constitutional protection. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

It was great to see government and business leaders pounding fists over real life-and-death issues that affect millions of too-often-unheard women and children at the bottom of the economic scale. ❋ Jasmine Whitbread (2012)

Faith communities of all types have unified behind OWS because the movement comes the closet of any effort of late -- religious or non-religious -- to illuminating the sheer life-and-death nature of our choice to obey the principles of economic justice, social responsibility and merciful dealings that all scriptures and inter-religious ideologies promote. ❋ Jennifer Danielle Crumpton (2011)

"We are in a life-and-death struggle, but not our whole country," he told the crowd. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You claim to believe that "life-and-death decisions should be made by families and doctors, with big government out of the way." ❋ Tim Kaine (2010)