Sentence examples for existential stakes from inspiring English sources

This is science with existential stakes.

"Existential stakes trump niceties," said one Afghan political activist, noting that the United States and its allies are currently responsible for the major part of Afghanistan's security and economy.

"What we had in Scotland was very high-octane, very simple, an existential system where the stakes were incredibly high on both sides.

It has all been chaotic and confusing – but also important, because two existential questions are at stake: what is Labour for?

A New York recital debut is an existential moment for a musician: a staking out of territory, an attempt to make a mark.

Given that both have staked opposing sides on an existential question, it will be difficult for their federal leader to leave Ottawa this weekend without picking his favourite child.

Grisham appropriates the bizzaro-world mood of an existential nightmare but puts little of value at stake.

Sunnis and Alawites — variously at odds since the Lebanese civil war and now feeling the stakes of their feud deepened by the existential conflict next door — lob mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at each other's neighborhoods while car bombs explode outside congregational mosques.

If doping is an existential threat to sport, why aren't those with a stake in its future doing more to fund the fight against it?

Mr. McCain was harking back to a different moment in American politics, in which such disagreements could be intense without becoming existential clashes in which the freedom of the country was at stake.

It thus can act as an almost existential reminder of why these arguments matter and what is at stake in them.