The robust, active man who once ordered him around, who orchestrated his early career, was frail, waging a life-and-death battle for each breath.

Their jocular treatment of life-and-death battles was hard enough to take on the radio.

She said, 'Trust does not come easily to a politician, especially one who is locked in a life-and-death battle with his worst enemy.'

The troops were mercs, ex-military most of them, veterans of life-and-death battles.

This is a fierce life-and-death battle between Stephen and a rabid wolf.

Those 64 squares in which a life-and-death battle are waged have become the cornerstone of my existence.

If she hadn't known better, Tess would have said Willa was locked in a life-and-death battle, with the bear in the lead.

The three-woman group presents lovers' quarrels as life-and-death battles.

Suddenly, his relationship with the therapist becomes a life-and-death battle rather than a talk fest.

But how would it end, with their life-and-death battle reduced to mere sparring.