Sentence examples for its lifeline from inspiring English sources

As former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said: "A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death".

He acknowledged that the company could not continue to rely on a single product as its lifeline, as it has from the Model T to the Explorer.

Regions remains the only major lender that has not paid back its lifeline.

Philips, a Dutch technology company, has long sold versions of its Lifeline medical-alert pendant (pictured).

GM had to promise to slim down dramatically cutting jobs, shuttering factories and shedding brands to win its lifeline.

A.I.G. itself declined to join the lawsuit in January, after the insurer faced an enormous public uproar over the prospect of suing the source of its lifeline.

Tabash has his own postdoctoral project that he developed with input from his advisor, but he also spends a portion of his time assisting in the company's drug discovery and development platform--its "lifeline" work.

FRANKFURT -- The European Central Bank on Thursday extended its cash lifeline for banks, while its president, Jean-Claude Trichet, urged national euro-zone regulators to take steps to resuscitate confidence in the health of their financial institutions.

Some asserted that not only was Iran impervious to Western threats but was also poised to prosper economically, despite evidence that the sanctions could cripple its ability to sell oil, its financial lifeline.

But although the ECB has said that it would maintain overall levels of its liquidity lifeline to Greece's private banks, it added that lenders would have to pledge more assets to gain the same amount of funding – a de facto tightening of terms for Greek banks as they are already running perilously short of cash.

Last week, the central bank upped its emergency lifeline by nearly $1 billion; news reports said that its governing council had voted Wednesday to give another boost of the same amount.