When my second was nine months old, I was in sheer survival mode and it was all a blur. (babybunching.com)
Both threaten the world's environment — one by wasteful consumption and the other by unsustainable pressure on limited resources in the quest for sheer survival. (sciencemag.org)
«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» Ruth Wisse's Jews and Power opens, and though the Jews should be proud that they have survived since the loss of ancient Israel, «this pride in sheer survival demonstrates how the tolerance of political weakness could cross the moral line into veneration of political weakness.» (firstthings.com)