Sentences with phrase «staving off death»

We looked realistically at scientific therapies that might stave off death.

I kept no loving vigil, I did nothing to stave off death.

Their advertising is about desperate cows using advertising to stave off death — really, the only advertising Chick - fil - A needs to do is say, «You probably haven't eaten at Chick - fil - A yet today, have you?»

Other researchers are hoping to stave off death by getting rid of the undead.

Certain cancer cells stave off their death with help from a particular molecule in a protein involved in the body's immune system response, a research team at Rush University Medical Center has found.

With little food and litle water, they decide to stave off death by building a plane out of their crashed one.

When I played Cuphead for the first time, I struggled to stay alive, but after several hours I staved off death for longer stretches of time.

Taking advantage of resources, managing ammo, and simply knowing when it's time to run away can help stave off death for a moment longer.

They last for a limited time, and they never make much of a difference beyond granting you a few final seconds of invulnerability to stave off death a little longer.

If they were enlarged, Lee's bristling, suspended structures might resemble shiny versions of the forest shacks and shelters built by the Canadian outsider architect Richard Greaves; or the booby - trapped mansion constructed between 1884 and 1922 by Sarah Winchester, the gun magnate's widow (as she tried to stave off death).

Not exact matches

Whereas in the earlier Luther the fear of death was the ultimate form of unbelief, the Luther who discovered justification by faith understood that no matter how great our faith, it can not be strong enough to stave off terror before death.

Treatment with the drug duramycin before exposure to Zika largely staves off infection and cell death (right).

In the paper, the researchers speculate that while the standard - dose vaccine might not have been strong enough to stave off illness entirely, it may still have been sufficient to prevent deaths in combination with hospital care.

Beginning in 1996, cocktails of anti-HIV drugs proved that they rescue people at death's door and stave off AIDS for decades.

Loads of studies have shown that potent combinations of anti-HIV drugs introduced in 1996 can powerfully suppress the AIDS virus, staving off disease and death.

If this precious enzyme can stave off telomere shortening, then can't it also allow us to prevent death — or even reverse the effects of ageing?

This was also the same change noted in cases of starvation, as the body attempted to slow its metabolic rate (in order to store fat and stave off illness and death).

Whether you're connecting with yourself or another, tapping into those primal urges not only satisfies our biological impulses, but it boosts our endorphins, relieves stress, improves immunity and sleep, burns calories, increases self esteem and intimacy, helps stave off cancer and other causes of early death, and is simply fun!

The Dirty Dozen - inspired plotline involves black ops ringleader, federal agent Amanda Waller (Davis, Blackhat), bringing together Task Force X, a group of strangers, all violently criminal super-powered sociopaths locked away in elaborately imagined high - security prisons, forced to do the government's dirty work to stave off the threat of other meta - humans that, in the wake of the death of Earth's savior, Superman, can't be stopped by conventional forces.