Voorbeelden van life-and-death

• The fact that the patient has arrived at this life-and-death point by a selfinflicted act is ethically relevant, but it is not dispositive.

• First, in distinction from the ordinary work of providing for people's basic needs, modern medicine often involves intensive interventions, with dramatic life-and-death results.

• The outstanding questions may not be as urgent as the life-and-death matters that first drove the development of liberalism.

• In any given simulation, choice of representation is of key importance, but it is rarely regarded as a life-and-death ideological issue whether these codes are local or distributed.

• In a life-and-death struggle we cannot afford to have our destinies in the hands of failures or men who need a rest.

• Their fun comes from witnessing the life-and-death struggle of fox and terrier.

• We have a social services inspectorate to deal with many of the life-and-death issues in which the social services departments are involved.

• I suggest that when we are engaged in a life-and-death struggle, political strategy is not the game to play.