Sentence examples for a double lifeline from inspiring English sources

Yukos, the embattled Russian oil group struggling to pay a crippling $3.4bn£1.9bnbn) tax bill, last night secured a double lifeline in moves that could help ease the global crisis over oil prices.

Murray, perhaps stewing over his missed opportunity, handed his opponent a lifeline as a double fault and a netted backhand gave Ferrer a decisive break, which he served out to pull a set back.

"As the evening wore on, we saw a doubling of calls," John Draper, the Lifeline's director, told me.

Now the troubled maker of a vehicle that is as British as the double-decker bus is getting a lifeline from a Chinese automaker whose last big acquisition was paying $1.3 billion for Volvo in 2010.

Dundee United may have been thrown a lifeline as Ross County double their lead late, late, late on at Rugby Park.

It is a lifeline, not a luxury.

The A380 double-decker superjumbo has been thrown a lifeline after its biggest customer Emirates Airlines ordered more.

Volunteering offered a flexible lifeline.

"We've got a second lifeline here.

Socialist Venezuela held out a crucial lifeline.

Now, it's a vital lifeline.