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How to use the word SURVIVE in a Sentence?

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Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

– Karl Marx

added by Normando
3 months ago

This led us, for instance, to understand that they can not survive without a specific sugar called trehalose, without this sugar, they just dieWhile there are no clear practical applications for a deep understanding of cryptobiosis, that should not be a reason to stop the research, Dr. Teymuras Kurzchalia said.The discovery of semiconductors, or of the double helix structure of DNA, Teymuras Kurzchalia said, took decades to yield a practical use, but ultimately turned out to be revolutionary.

– Teymuras Kurzchalia

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

If you have a high enough number of these kinds of asymmetrical weapon systems that survive the initial attack, you can keep most of your fighting capabilities intact and stop the enemy from conducting a landing operation.

– Admiral Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are the only ones that are explicitly saying ‘we need this war to survive. We need this war to continue to restore the greatness of Russian Empire,’ they have a very strong ideological mindset. They see Russia as a victorious state in this conflict. And their goal is for Russia to win and conquer all of Ukraine, and even potentially fight with NATO.

– Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood.

– John McManus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m sure someone saw, and I’m sure that somebody let it slide, because, again, if you’re in compliance with a lot of the big-picture things, perhaps they figured, well, they can survive something…What’s the likelihood that you’re gonna have $40 billion in withdrawals all at one time?

– John Sedunov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a terrible crime, their lives could have ended at this crossroads, but luckily they managed to survive.

– Serhii Bolvinov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is our home, not the Russians’. Besides it’s getting warmer and with the rainwater we collect from buckets, we will survive.

– Maria Avdeeva/CNN Liuba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They haven’t just survived the worst humanitarian disaster in their country’s history, they’ve been suffering war crimes and have been failed by the international community over and over again, at the very least, we need to provide them the humanitarian aid to help them survive, when many won’t survive even another day.

– Mouaz Moustafa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do think that the ones that will continue to be found will be the younger, probably kids and other folks who are more robust. … Kids are usually smaller too, and there’s always a chance that they might be in an area of the collapse that they can survive longer just because they are smaller.

– Jarone Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The cold weather is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it makes it very difficult, it is below freezing right now… On the other hand, it may reduce the demands for water. Perhaps that is playing into this, there is not a lot of data on how long people could survive in these situations but we are seeing those rescues 200 hours out.

– Sanjay Gupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You’ve got the lake shrinking, the habitat is drying up and what water is remaining is too salty for (algae and microbes) to survive.

– Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Conditions are so bad that even if he could survive (the collapse), because of the cold, the hypothermia… I can’t believe he can make it.

– Alptekin Talanci

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel lucky, as writing and selling books gives me an additional income stream. If not for that, I would’ve stayed stuck in the same wage loop, that’s why I was able to survive.

– Hideya Tokiyoshi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Companies need to be seen to be providing new devices with the latest technology, no matter how unnoticeable the upgrade, to survive.

– David McQueen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ceiling fell in… the space in between the ceiling and wall is where I managed to survive.

– Nasarullah Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Winter temperatures may have gotten as low as freezing for short periods of time, but we know that there were hardly ever any sustained freezing temperatures because crocodilians have been found on Ellesmere Island, and they cannot survive long freezes, in the summertime, temperatures reached about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

– Chris Beard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can’t not have farmers because you need food, but we have to have water in order to survive, there’s a very tricky balance to establish. Right now, if they don’t irrigate, we have water, but also a year from now we have no food.

– Linda Gutierrez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

American Democracy is fragile, it will not survive if people who are not satisfied with an election use force and violence to change the outcome.

– Louis Manzo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s hard being an LGBTQ kid in America, in fact all over the world, you were often told you will never become anything. You have to hide your life to survive. But for those kids watching tonight, I offer up MJ and Billy and Niecy and Matt and Jeremy as examples of possibility. There is a way forward.

– Ryan Murphy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether or not Bed Bath & Bed Bath Beyond loyalty programs would survive also depends, in part, on whether the company goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, known as restructuring, or Chapter 7 bankruptcy, that is, liquidation, if Bed Bath Beyond is Bed Bath Beyond, then there’s a very, very high chance that the reward programs will survive and the company will honor any existing rewards and coupons. After all, the company would not want to lose their customers and these loyalty programs or loyalty rewards are made to retain customers.

– Chandan Jha

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Bed Bath Beyond is Bed Bath Beyond, then there’s a very, very high chance that the reward programs will survive and the company will honor any existing rewards and coupons. After all, the company would not want to lose their customers and these loyalty programs or loyalty rewards are made to retain customers.

– Chandan Jha

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species becomes at doing the things they need to survive.

– Charles Darwin

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

It feels great, this is a really tough event. It started great yesterday but I wasn’t feeling I had a lot of energy… Yesterday I was trying to survive until day two and see if I had some chance… Today I felt a little bit better than yesterday and I tried to win as many games as I could.

– Magnus Carlsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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