Coming up, long hours and life-or-death decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2007] Reference

It was obvious they were in a life-or-death situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001] Reference

ANNOUNCER: On the battlefield, life-or-death decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2003] Reference

In a life-or-death battle Bix destroyed twelve Soviet tanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panzer Aces]

BLOOM: Yes, absolutely, because this is a life-or-death matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005] Reference

HAMMER: Now, imagine having a life-or-death surgery as a teenager.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2005] Reference

NGUYEN: Well, yes, you are talking about life-or-death situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2006] Reference

You get in a real life-or-death situation, you twist the guy's balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drop Shot]

It seemed of such great importance to me then, a life-or-death matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

The life-or-death question for Europe is how to regenerate high growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Last Chance For Europe] Reference

And later, a life-or-death battle that's under way in Florida right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2003] Reference

One couple's 19-day holiday cruise turned into a life-or-death struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2007] Reference

It was a punishment that satisfied both sides of the life-or-death argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penal Cluster] Reference

There is testimony in the life-or-death phase of Zacarias Moussaoui's trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2006] Reference

It's as well neither of us had any life-or-death decisions to make just then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]

It's a life-or-death decision for them: People can't see a life anywhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikolas Kozloff: Oil and Cultural Genocide: From the Amazon to the Gulf] Reference

A life-or-death situation might not be the best time to figure out how to do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting a car in Neutral might save your life] Reference

You put in grueling days, carry a crushing load, operate in life-or-death crises.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prescription For Healing] Reference

This is a life-or-death proposition, with lasting-time the most important factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

Transplants for heart failure, for liver failure, it's a life-or-death situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2006] Reference

So, the question confronting Iraq is potentially a life-or-death issue for Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2002] Reference

Just ahead here in THE SITUATION ROOM, no room for error on a life-or-death catch.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2005] Reference

Even if he gets in the life-or-death spot, the Thud driver will avoid the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thud Ridge]

If we hadn't been in the middle of a life-or-death fight, I would have stopped to watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changeling]

HIRSCHHORN: What they have to do is they're being asked to make this life-or-death decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2004] Reference

CNN cameras followed him into the operating room as he performed some life-or-death surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2009] Reference

Bill said he had "nowhere left to turn" in what was, in retrospect, a life-or-death struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Teens Fall Apart] Reference

That life-or-death policy trade-off has never really been debated outside obscure think tanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life In The Ostrich Years] Reference

The life-or-death importance of that approach shows up starkly in adolescents and young adults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curing Cancer] Reference

We're told, if there is a life-or-death situation, they will consider it on a case-by-case basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2003] Reference

COOPER: More on Iraq coming up, starting with a life-or-death crusade from an American entertainer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2006] Reference

Tonight, the new dad reveals the chilling and scary story behind his son ` s life-or-death surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2008] Reference

It had been torturing him throughout the ordeal, but the life-or-death struggle had superseded all else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]

This is true in most fields of endeavour, but it is of greater importance when you are directing a life-or-death effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thud Ridge]

And Geffen, hyper-protective of Spielberg, easy to offend, only fully engaged, it seems, when consumed by some epic life-or-death struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Showdown at Fort Sumner] Reference