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.
