Sentence examples for existential survival from inspiring English sources

"It's an existential survival issue".

"Perfection of Wisdom" also implied that a smart devotee might use the sutra as a kind of existential survival kit, a magical talisman.

In West Virginia today, the state Republican Party frames the regulation of heavy industry as a matter of cultural and existential survival.

All Is Lost J C Chandor's epic, existential survival story is likely to suffer by comparison with Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity but is a brilliant piece of work in its own right.

Pakistan pinned its existential survival to controlling the Afghan Taliban.

While Star Wars is about romantic war, and Star Trek is about technological utopia, BSG is about post-apocalyptic existential survival, where there is very little technology that doesn't feel completely believable, at least on the human side (FTL jumping, etc. notwithstanding).

In this year "of turmoil and hope", the global community was supposed to embark on the path to a more equitable future while tackling our most existential challenge: the survival of the planet.

For "Le Jeune Homme," Jean Cocteau devised a scenario  about a bohemian painter in his garret, ostensibly waiting  for his sweetheart but eventually embroiled in an existential battle for survival.

We have climate change, which spawns pandemic, and drought and famine and migrations that flow like a river into existential wars for survival.

Like the civil war in Syria next door, the new fighting threatens to draw in regional neighbors, mustering along sectarian lines in what fighters on both sides depict as an existential struggle for survival based on a religious rift dating to the 7th century.

Excluded from the government and security forces, as well as large shares of revenue from oil exports, Iraq's Sunni minority finds themselves, as many Sunnis see it, not just as losing in a contest for relevance, representation and resources, but in an existential fight for survival.