Sentences with phrase «sheer survival»

When my second was nine months old, I was in sheer survival mode and it was all a blur.

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.

«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.»

At the National Automobile Dealers Assn.'s annual convention in 2009, much talk centered on sheer survival.

We marvel and the ingenuity and sheer survival skills of this amazing cat, and it is thanks to the wonder of microchips, that he is home safe.

«The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,» 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.»

Half the world's women are illiterate and desperately in need of education for sheer survival, if not for economic improvement and personal fulfillment.

The first days and weeks of breastfeeding often boil down to sheer survival: getting your baby to latch onto (and stay on!)

What begins as a mercenary mission, becomes something deeper as he observes the courage of sheer survival.

Film plays up well the irony of a career - driven man, used to solving problems, faced with the most urgent problem of all: sheer survival.

The rest of the refreshingly diverse cast (even if the lead is still a white male) rounds out a solid ensemble of office workers struggling with right, wrong, and sheer survival.