Modern business executives, living within the legal and moral restraints of our society do not have to face such life-and-death choices.

Human actions have meaning because they involve life-and-death choices, something not open to the gods.

At the same second the guard was making a life-and-death choice, Cabrillo heard a thump as Larry King jumped from the wall and landed on the roof of the van.

So the midwife faced life-and-death choices.

The idea of making such life-and-death choices made many of the participants squirm in their folding chairs.

"It is a life-and-death choice, almost," said Mr. Lachmansingh.

Instead of advancing a political agenda, the writers say, the show will explore the daily moral dilemmas and life-and-death choices that American troops face in Iraq.

It had appeared that Gary understood his rationale for the life-and-death choices he had made.

Ruling in a case that confronted the law with stark life-and-death choices, the Court of Appeal said today that doctors can proceed with an operation to separate joined twins that would sacrifice one in an effort to save the other.

Mr. Newman (with an Irish brogue) steals the movie as Rooney, the mob boss faced with agonizing life-and-death choices.