Survival
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Above all, the term was an effort to communicate to Americans, accustomed to waging war with speed and decisiveness (and insistent on it since Vietnam), the long-term sacrifice and commitment needed to win a war of
survival.
A dearth of water fuels ethnic strife, as communities begin to fear for their
survival
and seek to capture the resource.
Any decision that could affect the regime’s
survival
is taken within the dynasty; and, ultimately, in terms of legitimacy, background, experience, and competence, Kyong-hui is viewed as the only suitable decision-maker in the Kim clan.
Yet we latter-day Easter Islanders seem unaware of this existential threat, preferring to build statues rather than sustainable systems for
survival.
But it must be resisted, because domestic peace depends on mutual respect for cultural plurality, because Europe's changing demographic profile demands more open borders, not a gated continent, and because the new right's inherent chauvinism is irreconcilable with the EU's
survival
and success.
A majority of today’s French recognize that raising the retirement age is necessary to ensure the
survival
of the pension system.
Russian (or Soviet) leaders opt for perestroika or a thaw only when forced to do so by dire conditions that threaten the regime’s
survival.
As a great (and already American at that time) writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote in the 1970s: "From all the decrees of nature the most remarkable one is, possibly, the
survival
of the weakest."
The US economy, alas, is an out-of-control juggernaut, chasing oil wealth and jeopardizing our very
survival.
Oxygen restriction reliably draws activity away from brain regions concerned with higher cognitive function and memory toward brainstem regions concerned with reflexive responses supporting immediate
survival.
The regime knows that its
survival
depends on preventing economic collapse.
There is no reason – and no excuse – to leave the
survival
of millions to unpredictable weather conditions.
Climate change, deforestation, growing populations, and other ecological strains will challenge the very
survival
of hundreds of millions of people around the world in the coming decades.
Antarctic krill must not be fished to feed the fish farms of the world while starving the penguins, seals, whales, and other species whose
survival
depends on these tiny, but vitally important, creatures.
For these governments, economic reform is now a matter of
survival.
In September 1992, on Black Wednesday, the pound sterling and the Italian lira fell out of the ERM as money markets bet against the
survival
of what the Conservative peer Norman Tebbit once ridiculed as the “eternal recession mechanism.”
Local, because the most fragile communities often rely for their
survival
on the biological resources that surround them, which constitute a precious source of food, energy and income.
When fiscal misbehavior by Greece, a country representing no more than 2% of the eurozone’s GDP, poses serious dangers for the
survival
of the currency union, something is clearly amiss.
No reasonable person expects Greece ever to be able to pay off its debts, but the country has become trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of payments and bailouts – making it dependent on its donors for its very
survival.
Yields, on average, barely support survival, and crop failures are common and deadly, while long-term global climate change, caused mainly by high energy consumption in the rich countries, may be exacerbating the frequency and severity of droughts.
Child
survival
rates would rise, reinforcing lower fertility rates.
So the game must be stopped, if only for the
survival
of innocent bystanders – the rest of us.
France’s once-proud carmakers are fighting for
survival.
Millions of people look to the international community for immediate
survival.
In Germany, the
survival
of Merkel’s governing coalition is now in jeopardy, owing to a standoff over migration between her Christian Democratic Union and the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, led by Horst Seehofer, the interior minister.
Not surprisingly, defectors nowadays describe an environment of social breakdown, petty crime, and a Darwinian struggle for
survival.
China has only limited influence over the evolution – or even
survival
– of the rules-based world order.
Though Western leaders have softened their position in recent months, the damage has been done: Uncertain of his physical survival, Assad unleashed a horrific civil war, from which the Islamic State has benefited considerably.
This netherworld, patrolled and nourished by criminals who operate a vast black-market economy, has bred, in Mumbai, a community that has utter contempt for the state, because it knows that its
survival
depends on corrupting the police.
For many people, the competition for land is a fight for
survival.
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