Either by gradually losing their pumping capacity or by sudden seizure, they cause much disease and some heroic surgical intervention.

Any one of these syndromes would likely necessitate a lifetime of heroic medical intervention.

She is also a flesh-and-blood challenge, requiring both mundane attention and heroic intervention.

Fortunately, that scheme was thwarted by heroic intervention.

The rebellion is halted by a flare which requires everyone to shelter together, and by Rachel's heroic intervention.

Hal forgot all thought of heroic intervention on the part of his comrades, for he felt no kinship to these brutal assassins.

This is the myth of 'heroic intervention'.

Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for, generally speaking, life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital.

It is a replacement for heroic medical intervention that may keep them physically alive but with no quality of life.

Wachtmeister was made a Major-General for his heroic intervention.