There have been plenty of other oddities at tennis's odd-numbered moments (players change ends after one, three, five, seven, nine games, etc).. "We're all looking for crutches to help survive those moments, because we're out there on our own," said Courier, the former world No.1 who is now the U.S. Davis Cup captain.
I believe that the wolverine needs our help to survive for the long term.
The results were dismal: It appeared that the drug caused some tumor shrinkage in a statistically significant number of patients, but that activity failed to help patients survive for 12 months or to increase the likelihood that their cancer would not progress.
Medication and a positive mind-set, he said, have helped him survive for more than 20 years.
Samoa's devastating public health problems are entangled with food and other cultural practices, as well as with the very genes that have helped Samoans survive for millennia.
The less-obtrusive pagan religious associations of the chariot races helped them survive for centuries after Constantine's conversion to Christianity in 337 ce.
Mr. Brower, whose family has had 32 years of uninterrupted success catching whales, is concerned that these traditions, which have united villagers and helped them survive for centuries, might get lost in an offshore drilling boom.
Their outlook on life is often summed up in the word "sisu," which denotes a grim determination to do what must be done, regardless of circumstances — the kind of gritty perseverance that helped Finland survive for decades beneath the dark cloud of the Soviet Union.
He said the factors he feels helped him survive for so long are a positive attitude and keeping mobile.
That helped me survive for 2 years in the beginning.
Colletti drew on the political savvy that helped him survive for eight seasons, simultaneously walking a tightrope and tap-dancing around land mines.
