It's a survival mechanism for an extremely spare environment where the men have to be gone lots of the time.
For me, coping has become an essential survival mechanism, almost a way of life.
Some celebrate diversity, others just live with it, if only as a survival mechanism.
Cancer is not a disease but a survival mechanism.
He took human form as a survival mechanism when he was leaving.
But some maternal drive is altering her own survival mechanism.
Secrecy is a survival mechanism for the members of families torn apart.
So her trick gait made sense: it was a survival mechanism.
Identifying ourselves as members of a larger community is a great survival mechanism.
"But we have developed survival mechanisms and the possibility to live under many limitations."