Those kinds of things to do life-sustaining efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2005] Reference

This "much more" is something extraordinary and life-sustaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Naylor: Can An Ordinary Person Enjoy A State Of Grace?] Reference

The court found that she did not want this life-sustaining equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2005] Reference

MICHAEL BROWN, FEMA DIRECTOR: Life-saving and life-sustaining efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2004] Reference

A man in need of life-sustaining health care has his insurance canceled.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009] Reference

It views land as both a resource for human use and as a life-sustaining matrix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Ecological and Georgist Economic Principles~ A Comparison] Reference

Our initial actions now are primarily in the life-saving and life-sustaining arena.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

WHITFIELD: What are some of those life-sustaining commodities you're talking about?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005] Reference

It's basically a shot of the same life-sustaining chemicals found in those hibernating squirrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009] Reference

The air we breathe, the water we drink and many other life-sustaining processes come from nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

By contrast, fruits, vegetables and whole grains are densely packed with life-sustaining compounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food Fight--Carbs Vs. Fat] Reference

Rocks are what we need to be searching for to continue building a more just and life-sustaining future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emilie Townes: A House Built on the Rocks of Righteousness] Reference

Another patient will decide to utilize every kind of life-sustaining therapy as long as medically possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Coombs Lee: Who's Against People Making Their Own Health Care Choices?] Reference

This is very improper, as it dries up all the juice, which is the life-giving, life-sustaining property of the meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

Depletion of natural capital and consequent reduction of its life-sustaining services is the meaning of unsustainability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference

The same Internet has been a great life-sustaining force for ALL of us during the darkest days and years of Bush's regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems] Reference

The fair and effective distribution of life-sustaining resources like food, water and shelter, is the very story of civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dora Calott Wang, M.D.: Is Wall Street Making Life or Death Decisions?] Reference

In the acute phase of the post-tsunami crisis, the focus was on providing life-sustaining assistance to survivors, and rightly so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aid and Security After the Tsunami] Reference

ROWLAND: Dr. Isner's vision delivered genes directly to a failing heart, triggering the growth of new life-sustaining blood vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2001] Reference

There are some who see the Divine Feminine in the unique life-sustaining roles that have emerged from our biological role as mothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Debold: The Divine Feminine, Unveiled] Reference

Increasing numbers of fishermen like Nuhung are waking up to the threat and protecting the life-sustaining coral before it's too late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving The Coral Reefs] Reference

As her family stood by her hospital bedside on a hot summer morning, the doctor suggested hooking her up to life-sustaining equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Rights] Reference

But I am living proof that insurance-company "death squads" meeting behind closed doors routinely make life-sustaining benefits vanish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Pearl: I Am Not a Dog] Reference

She had previously been represented by such beneficent food-providing and life-sustaining creatures as the cow, the sow, and the gazelle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

And the courts, whether you like it or not, made the decision that Schiavo wanted to die with dignity without life-sustaining equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2005] Reference

It is truly a life-sustaining action to put some federal funds into this research because we know that we can cure diseases by doing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2001] Reference

A. Lindbergh and A.exis Carrel pump (designed in 1935 to perfuse life-sustaining fluids to the organs of the body), the Sewell heart pump.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964] Reference

First, Dr. James Carrico inserted an oxygen tube into the President's mouth, but because of the neck wound, the life-sustaining oxygen wasn't getting through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference

The National Organization of Rare Disorders 'patient assistance programshelp those without adequate insurance get access to life-saving or life-sustaining medications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-Care Savings Series—Day 10: Take advantage of condition-based programs] Reference

So, any event that pulls the rug out from me and startles me to my spiritual (and, sometimes, physical) knees is likely to be something that conceals a life-sustaining treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Dilenschneider: Gratitude: Leaving the Suburbs of God] Reference

RMI's motto is "abundance through design" and it seeks to "foster the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris McGowan: Memo to Obama or McCain: Pick Amory Lovins As Energy Czar] Reference