Sentence examples for holding life from inspiring English sources

BEING a transplant coordinator can be a stressful job -- holding life and death in the palm of a hand.

"Traditionally, that's what it's all about, having a victim at your disposal, holding life and death authority over that person, enjoying inflicting pain and suffering," said Robert K. Ressler, a former F.B.I. agent and expert on serial killers who runs a consulting company called Forensic Behavioral Services International.

The language of civility has always been a code of sorts, a way of holding life's quotidian messiness up against lofty, sometimes elitist ideals of proper behavior.

But now researchers have taken a second look at the fossil record after trying to remove some of its imperfections and have concluded that there's no Darwinian traffic cop holding life back.

A fair field holding life.

There are two categories members, namely, permanent and non-permanent members, with the permanent members holding life tenure.

Near the entrance is a man holding life-size cut-outs of Obama and Romney for people to pose with.

To mark the occasion more than 1,000 schoolchildren in Chennai, India, were photographed in the courtyard of their school holding life-sized cutouts of Gates's face, raised above their heads in military salute.

In its balanced weight the body still held life.

Martin also held life membership in the Friendly Sons of St .Patrick.

They hold life cheaply, & hence are able to entertain generous thoughts about the state.