Sentence examples for heroic measures from inspiring English sources

Her death that day was forestalled by heroic measures, including a tracheotomy and ventilation.

I am acutely tempted to answer, "Of course not — my father would not want heroic measures".

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But neither should heroic measures be taken to prevent "normal" nausea and vomiting.

We take on the world, we attempt heroic measures, forgetting, we are indeed, so very human.

Or is putting the kibosh on the popcorn taking what some living wills call heroic measures?

Surely we need to be a bit tougher about heroic measures for the dying.

Even with heroic measures, these babies were not likely to survive beyond a few hours or days.

When her life neared its end, she wanted no heroic measures: no resuscitation, no respirator, no tangle of tubes.

By year's end the heroic measures had stabilized the economy at least temporarily, but the U.S. was clearly deeply mired in a global economic slump of uncertain duration.

In some cases, that could well mean the request to be spared costly tests, procedures and heroic measures that provide no real medical benefit.