life-preserving

Like so much about life as a black male in America, the answer is something of a paradox: Self-destructive as the macho street attitude can be in the long term, in the short term it can be life-preserving, which is to say that the very attitude that sends so many of us to the morgue sometimes can seem like our only hope for survival.

THE ENVY OF The World Ellis Cose 2002

The police, the army, the highway code: all are part of that life-preserving infrastructure.

In praise of ... leaving the lights on 2011

The overall shortfall to the Global Fund for increased treatment means more than 3 million people infected with HIV will not receive life-preserving medication, 2 million orphans and vulnerable children will have to do without support, and a half million mothers won't receive treatment to prevent transmission of the disease to their babies.

Dr. Paul Zeitz: Why There is Much to Fear for Global Health this Halloween Dr. Paul Zeitz 2010

The overall shortfall to the Global Fund for increased treatment means more than 3 million people infected with HIV will not receive life-preserving medication, 2 million orphans and vulnerable children will have to do without support, and a half million mothers won't receive treatment to prevent transmission of the disease to their babies.

Dr. Paul Zeitz: Why There is Much to Fear for Global Health this Halloween Dr. Paul Zeitz 2010

I don't prefer e-reading either, but seriously, if someone had a GUN to my head (an actual LOADED gun), I'd read it out loud, change my voice for characters, act out the scenes, the whole nine yards ... and then buy the gun-wielder a drink afterward, just to seal the life-preserving deal.

You Asked For It 2009

I would have revised the line thus: "gutting our investments in innovation, life-preserving health care and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine."

Regan Hofmann: The Alarming State Of AIDS In America Regan Hofmann 2011

In any case, I always knew that if worst came to worst in life, as it occasionally did in New York in the 1960s and '70s, there was a life-preserving piece of seven layer just around the corner.

Seeking Layers of Heaven Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

It is life-preserving, but often debilitating and demoralizing — akin to saving polio patients with iron lungs, or treating cancer with never-ending chemotherapy.

...With Functioning Kidneys for All 2009

I would have revised the line thus: "gutting our investments in innovation, life-preserving health care and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine."

Regan Hofmann: The Alarming State Of AIDS In America Regan Hofmann 2011

In any case, I always knew that if worst came to worst in life, as it occasionally did in New York in the 1960s and '70s, there was a life-preserving piece of seven layer just around the corner.

Seeking Layers of Heaven Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011