Sentence examples for existence at stake from inspiring English sources

Now, with Ukraine's existence at stake, there may be no other way.

President Vladimir V. Putin warned last year that the spread of Asian influence in the Russian far east placed Russia's very existence at stake.

When questions of existence are at stake, as when arguing for the existence of ghosts or the nonexistence of fate, they apply all three standards.

"Collective security," he insisted, "is the very existence of the League of Nations," and warned "international morality" is "at stake".

"Simply, the issue is that Arafat feels his very naked existence is at stake," Mr. Shafi said.

"I'm just heartbroken about what's going on there," he said, adding that he thought Israel's very existence was at stake.

Nonetheless, Israel, believing that its very existence is at stake — and this is a feeling shared by most Israelis across the political spectrum — will certainly make the effort.

Leaders would be acting irresponsibly if they failed to employ the EU's borrowing capacity when its very existence is at stake.

The Met's challenges, while daunting, seem not nearly severe enough to threaten its future, but the City Opera's very existence is at stake now.

More important, holding elections would renew the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority, providing it with the political will to project leadership at a time when its existence is at stake.

For Cramer, this was both a point of honor and a source of terror; he ran the fund as if its existence were at stake every day and any loss were a portent of doom.