Sentence examples for holds life from inspiring English sources

If the Vaupel calculus holds, life expectancy at birth will reach 100 in some countries by the end of this century.

Believing that logic holds life together, he struggles to be content with his limited lot, but also admits to "searching for something" beyond himself, "some totality, which can be glimpsed only between the cracks".

To Fandorin's supervisor, the case presents no interest apart from the question of why the new generation holds life so cheap that it has made even suicide a fashion.

Even if it holds life, the organisms might not find Earth to their liking: most of the time when members of a species arrive in a new place, they either die or harmlessly settle in.

"The people of the United States are no longer living under a government of laws," wrote the chief justice, "but every citizen holds life, liberty and property at the will and pleasure of the army officer in whose military district he may happen to be found".

Bottle-glass windows, linen drying, the stencilled lettering on a wall fading with time as the masons hack at the obdurate stones that will repair the nearby church, it holds life in the moment, and all of it in equal balance, this revelation of Venice backstage.

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.

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

Economic betterment, he said, fosters the wish for peace, whereas want and misery end in making people hold life cheaply.