This is a life-or-death matter for him, since he has overheard Karen foreshadow his imminent demise.

The difference between a Buick and the state of Ohio is not a life-or-death matter.

"Know yourself" was always a good idea; if you were working with telepathy, it might be a life-or-death matter.

Well, tonight was no time for life-or-death matters.

As a life-or-death matter, loyalty was highly prized.

So far as is known, the poor service was mostly an inconvenience, not a life-or-death matter.

So used to seeing her masquerade as a life-or-death matter, she had never learned to laugh about it.

If it got to be a life-or-death matter, he could always take the sword in his shoulder, immobilizing Hota's weapon.

It may feel like a life-or-death matter, but there's almost never a murder, as in Clue.

Man, this expedition is no schoolyard-it's a life-or-death matter, for the human race.