Sentence examples similar to sheer self preservation from inspiring English sources
He was, like so many New York fish, mice and turtles, a placeholder for other animals which the children would have preferred to have as pets but which allergies, age and sheer self-preservation have kept their parents from buying.
So if you market toys to them and say, 'Here's the boy one, and here's the girl one,' out of sheer self-preservation of their identity, they're likely to pick the one that's appropriate to their sex".
The second is sheer self-preservation - see Martin Amis: the realisation that should you momentarily venture into the public realm to suggest that climate change is a bad thing or the government is inept, all kinds of people who would probably not know a book if it landed on their heads will rise up to criticise you for your presumption.
He was, like so many New York fish and mice and turtles, a placeholder for other animals, which the children would have preferred to have as pets, but which allergies and age and sheer self-preservation have kept their parents from buying.
Sheer self-preservation might be a weightier consideration.
Self preservation comes second to their protection".
Clean, tender, but thinking of self preservation.
It's a matter of self preservation.
