Sentence examples for lives given the from inspiring English sources

Over all, Civil War surgeons did a respectable and generally successful job of trying to save lives, given the unrelenting slaughter with which they had to cope.

He said that Malaysia was officially declaring – "with heaviest heart and deepest sorrow" – that those on board had lost their lives, given the length of the search and the highly unlikely prospects of survival in the remote stretch of the Southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have ended its flight.

Some in Atascocita, Linder said, "emphasised this sense of change and transition in their neighbourhoods, that that was a source of stress for them and that they were resistant to making changes in their own lives given the flux that was around them.

Scientists from Turkey's Kandilli earthquake institute said that up to 1,000 people may have lost their lives given the force of the 7.2-magnitude quake, which struck at 1.41pm local time (11.41am BST), and given the often shoddy construction standards in the mountainous area near Turkey's border with Iran.

Finally citizens are free in being able to take responsibility for planning their own lives, given the opportunities and resources that they can reasonably expect.

"There is a lot of genuine concern about this bill and the effect of intrusion into private lives, given the breadth of it".

Each episode flashes back to a different year in their lives, giving the audience pieces of the mystery.

Ravenel's secret is only one of several "unfinished desires" that snag and tangle the characters' lives, giving the novel its momentum.

The parallel accounts of the siblings' separate and shared lives give the reader much to contemplate: not only questions of nature and nurture and the weight of expectations, but the changing shape of families that we can choose.

The unapologetic and matter-of-fact acknowledgment of its characters' sex lives gives the series an aura of enlightenment (though it would be merely seamy if its ultrahorny men were heterosexual).

Dying with zero lives gives the player a game over.