1. In capital murder trials, the jury makes a life-or-death decision in a separate proceeding after a conviction.

2. It was serious business; he felt the life-or-death of it.

3. Only a life-or-death issue such as a liver or heart will hit the headlines.

4. Is it a life-or-death issue in this country?

5. There was a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park this summer.

6. People who fight a life-or-death battle with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma share an underlying insecurity about the actual state of their health, it's true.

7. A life-or-death situation can reveal whether somebody is panicky or coolheaded, whether the person is selfish or thinks about others. This also is true for a nation - state.

8. That getting into Princeton isn't a life-or-death matter hit home years ago for Loren Pope, then the education editor of The New York Times.

9. Records from the life-or-death situations on board the two ships provide a natural experiment that could never be done in a lab, comments behavioral economist Colin Camerer of Caltech University.

10. "Water prices can be a life-or-death issue for the poor in developing countries, " says Washington - based Jamal Saghir, director of the Energy, Transport and Water Unit of the World Bank.

11. At such a life-or-death moment, I would only consider sacrificing my life for my daughter.

12. "Water prices can be a life-or-death issue for the poor in developing countries, " says the World Bank's Saghir.

13. And every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing a new home, honey bees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building.

14. Give the immune system a break from that life-or-death battle, and it might be better able to do the surveillance work of corralling stray cells that escape the initial treatment.

15. Such organizations should be ready all the time to make life-or-death choices and have the organizational capability of self-sacrifice.

16. Carlisle wasn't considering age too intently, as each of these decisions was spur-of-the-moment as well as life-or-death.

17. Some STDs (like AIDS) can literally make sex a life-or-death situation, and many teens take this very seriously.

18. Much as they love you, it's easy for our friends to forget our day-to-day priorities, including a job search that feels like a life-or-death proposition to you.

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19. For humans in primitive times, slowness in distinguishing whether the person in front of them is a member of their own tribe or a member of an enemy tribe was a life-or-death issue.

20. In order to survive in the "business ecosystem", every enterprise should practice making a choice in a life-or-death situation and learn how to make meaningful sacrifices where it is needed.

21. "There might be a hybrid seed that is better, but they need to see proof it's better because it's a life-or-death decision, " Golub says.

22. Even a relatively developed democracy such as Mexico now finds itself in a life-or-death struggle against gangsters.

23. PARIS (Reuters) - Top European car makers warned of a bleak 2009 as signs grew the deep crisis in the auto sector went far beyond the U.S. industry's life-or-death struggle.

24. A routine trip to the water hole recently resulted in a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile (pictured).