Examples (10)
- Presidents must make momentous life-and-death decisions while in office.
- The surgeon faced a critical life-and-death decision during the complex operation.
- For the family, deciding whether to approve the risky surgery was a heart-wrenching life-and-death decision.
- The general's life-and-death decision to retreat saved countless soldiers.
- Firefighters often have to make split-second life-and-death decisions in burning buildings.
- In a capital case, the jury is tasked with making a literal life-and-death decision.
- Trapped in the blizzard, she knew choosing which path to take was a life-and-death decision.
- Pulling the plug on a loved one is perhaps the most difficult life-and-death decision a person can face.
- You can't hesitate when it's a life-and-death decision; you just have to act.
- Historically, explorers made life-and-death decisions daily based on limited information.