She is not on a ventilator, a life-support system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2005] Reference

How does it differ from a coma or life-support states?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2005] Reference

"Logistics and life-support would be ticklish," Matt agreed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

“The doctors want me to take Crosby off of life-support,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Wild]

Top U.S. officials say he's being kept alive by life-support machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2004] Reference

None of its life-support gadgetry seemed useful in our present predicament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

Too quiet, in spite of the life-support equipment that breathed for Crosby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Wild]

With the life-support systems overloaded, it was the best the ship could do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancer's Illusion]

But now, increasingly, people are worried about our basic life-support systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [INVESTING IN GREEN] Reference

Would she need other sort of life-support mechanisms so that she could survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2005] Reference

On November 3 Dominique was still on the life-support system at the Cedars-Sinai.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dominick Dunne on His Daughter's Murder] Reference

The once high-growth economy is seriously ill and not far from needed life-support.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Victory for Democracy’] Reference

Of course we have to give him the life-support stuff he needs, but I'm afraid of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nitrogen Fix]

LEE KAGAN, HOPE'S PHYSICIAN: I'd like to clarify that Mr. Hope is not on life-support.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2001] Reference

She could have lived for years on life-support, but I made the decision to let her die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Wild]

They form the life-support system without which economic activity would not be possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference

But one of Welby's doctors said yes, giving sedatives and unplugging life-support equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2006] Reference

Perhaps the best of all "life-support" grains, pearl millet thrives where habitats are harsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Pearl Millet] Reference

Over the years there have been fires and leaks, power failures and life-support malfunctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy Of Mir: Falling Star] Reference

They don't just power the life-support systems-in fact, I haven't found that part at all yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference

Their largesse, he says, has turned American farmers into "a 350-pound man on a life-support system.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Guerrilla] Reference

Your preferences for things like life-support procedures and burial instructions might not be followed exactly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Alderman: Accidents Happen: Get Your Affairs in Order] Reference

And the medium that many considered the most likely candidate for life-support had its banner day, quite literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s Leap—Both Quantum and Quaint: David Friend] Reference

(The harvest from the thing in the Knob traveled faster; it didn't need life-support and could stand a lot more gs.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Sooner or later, banks will have to cut off life-support lending to their worst clients in order to save themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed To The Edge] Reference

Automakers may provide life-support for low-volume dealers in the form of special discounts or other financial help.    From Wordnik.com.  [What do the automakers have against their dealers?] Reference

She is not, as many believe, on a life-support system, nor is she the total vegetable she is often described as being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow] Reference

Patients on life-support equipment are allowed to hasten their deaths by instructing doctors to turn the equipment off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It A Wonderful Life?] Reference

A living will instructs doctors and hospitals which medical treatments and life-support procedures you do or don't want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Alderman: Accidents Happen: Get Your Affairs in Order] Reference

He had no need to breathe, since his entire cardiovascular system had been replaced by closed-cycle life-support mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Throughout the nation it is now both legal and ethical for people to refuse to initiate or to discontinue life-support treatments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewis M. Cohen: You Still Won't Know Jack] Reference

Presumably the higher he got, the smaller would be the city area; it was quite likely that life-support took up the whole top level.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nitrogen Fix]

Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wangari Maathai's Nobel Lecture] Reference

In other words, the FDIC despite its oversight failures will be given eternal life-support at taxpayer expense, in no less manner than AIG.    From Wordnik.com.  [The FDIC Needs to Address the Moral Hazard of TBTF] Reference

The neurons are highly specialized and do not have all the usual cellular organelles to provide them with the same life-support capability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neurotoxicity] Reference