My oath didn't bind you unto near-certain death.

Better for me to face near-certain death at the fangs and claws of a dragon than for anything to happen to her.

His intervention probably saved them from a near-certain death.

How many others had, preferring near-certain death to exile?

To sail not back into danger and near-certain death, but to Marsilikos and safety; home, to go home.

People receiving more than two warnings were sent for "re-education," which meant near-certain death.

The new front was in the southern Alps, making for hazardous flying and near-certain death to any aviators crashlanding in the mountains.

She is told that her written observations on the case have helped naval doctors reverse their aging and save Mulder from near-certain death.

This doesn't take away the fact that Zofia went along with abandoning 6-year-old Elżbieta to near-certain death.

Struck from the black clouds that represented destruction, that condemned all those unsheltered to near-certain death.