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The municipal ‘ life support system ’ of the capital is operating normally. Currently, 30 % of consumers are without electricity. Due to emergency shutdowns, alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Kyiv residents have water and heat. – Vadim Ghirda/AP	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue after what happened with the election of 2020. They worry that democracy is on life support in the United States. – Jake Tapper	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Scott's on life support. Once his family is in place they will discontinue life support. I'm going to lose the one person on this planet I've spent more of my life with than anyone else, my heart is broken and I'm so very f—ing sad. – Kevin Nash	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors. – Jim Carafano	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Right now, our government and our response capabilities are on life support because we rely totally on generated power. And of course to have generators, State Sen. Kirk Talbot have to have fuel, so fuel has been short because two-thirds of our refinery capabilities were knocked out. – Joe Valiente	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Uncle Mitch is still in and out of consciousness. Uncle Mitch's on life support, my brother went there yesterday and played him some oldies, and his whole body started moving. So, he really loved that. The nurses at the UCLA Medical Center and the doctors are taking such incredible care of Uncle Uncle Mitch, but Uncle Mitch's got a long road ahead of Uncle Mitch. – Alyssa Milano	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a huge step for law enforcement to take, and for Service Employees International unions to take, but at this moment, regarding this profession, I'm not gon na say it's on life support, but we've lost confidence of the public in many areas throughout the country. – Fred Redmond	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Juche is truly being tested for the first time because the pandemic has forced North Korea into self isolation, when until now, it has been able to rely on China as a life support even during the harshest of economic times. – Duyeon Kim	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If you cover it, you might as well take away someones life support. – Delta BingoCEO Cam Johnston	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I was out cold for three days on life support, my family didn't know where I was. – Elijah McKnight in 2019	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Sharlene Miller, Sharlene Miller, told the BBC. Millerdeveloped pneumonia and his condition grew worse.His kidneys also began to fail and he developed blood clots. In the week between Normas funeral and her partners funeral, each day Scott seemed to deteriorate and they were running out of options. We were at the point where we were maybe going to have to make a decision about turning off his life support, Sharlene Miller said, per the BBC. The same staff that helped Sharlene Miller also were with his mother during her last days. MAINE HOSPITAL SEES CORONAVIRUS RESURGENCE AFTER VISITORS LEARN OF POSITIVE TEST RESULTS WHILE ON TRIP The staff in the hospital were absolutely amazing, two or three of the nurses who treated me were with my mum when she passed away. Every part of the NHS was amazing. Sharlene Miller warns people to be vigilant against the virus and not becomplacent. – Sharlene Miller	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our economy is on life support now, we will be testing the waters in the next few months to see if it can emerge safely from our policy-induced coma. – Erica Groshen	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The family's biggest concern is that we have four members of one family who have passed, two on life support and one stable. – Paradiso Fodera	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is the first suit we've designed in about 40 years, what you saw today was a prototype of the pressure garment. The life support system is back in a lab in Houston. – Chris Hansen	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What you saw today was a prototype of the pressure garment. The life support system is back in a lab in Houston, we want systems that allow our astronauts to be scientists on the surface of the moon. – Chris Hansen	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The old oligarch system is still clinging to life, and corruption is its life support, ukraine must continue to pursue economic reforms in line with European standards and fully empower all of its anti-corruption institutions. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Were waiting for the right moment to put him through another surgery, hes depending on life support that hes receiving in intensive care. – Pablo Rossini	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
She started exercising more, and then she started pushing herself harder than she had, and then eventually she started beating us in her plank challenges. She planked for a minute and a half on a ventilator life support -- beat her mom, that was around September. – Brie Kerschen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We rolled out a new low dollar campaign to reach a wide variety of supporters and as part of that effort reached out to our network, just as Ms. Nixon’s campaign has dozens of contributions from her staff and their family members, as the latest filing and poll numbers show, Cynthia’s campaign is on life support, which is why her lines are getting increasingly more combative and desperate. – Abbey Collins	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They were going to turn my life support off, but they wanted to give me one more night to see if I improved and they wanted to give my family a chance to say goodbye. – Alex Lewis	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
[ They ] immediately put Keila Lino on a ventilator and from there Keila Lino just went downhill, by that evening, Keila Lino was on life support. – Brad Fauts	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
[ They ] immediately put her on a ventilator and from there she just went downhill, by that evening, she was on life support. – Brad Fauts	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We gave Evan the last rites and then we turned off her life support, she was declared brain dead…The hospital kept giving me a sliver of hope. I knew it was wrong, but I wanted it to be true. So I hung on for a week. It’s rough. I feel like I’ve been very, very beaten. I hurt from head to toe with the pain of losing my daughter. – Natalie Wood	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It really speaks to the fact that the challenging job of a caregiver is not necessarily restricted to a few months before one dies, certainly individuals are more vulnerable at the end of life. Support for caregivers may be more urgent at the end of life but important through critical illness. – Katherine Ornstein	Found on Reuters 6 years ago

The municipal ‘ life support system ’ of the capital is operating normally. Currently, 30 % of consumers are without electricity. Due to emergency shutdowns, alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Kyiv residents have water and heat.

– Vadim Ghirda/AP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue after what happened with the election of 2020. They worry that democracy is on life support in the United States.

– Jake Tapper

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Scott's on life support. Once his family is in place they will discontinue life support. I'm going to lose the one person on this planet I've spent more of my life with than anyone else, my heart is broken and I'm so very f—ing sad.

– Kevin Nash

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The problem is, when you buy oil from Venezuela, essentially what you're doing is you're putting dollars in to prop up the economy and more entrench the Maduro regime, and at the same time, the only reason why this regime is existing at all, is on life support, is because of support from the Chinese, the Russians and the Cubans. So you have really the most detestable regime in Latin America that’s basically subsisting on these external actors.

– Jim Carafano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Right now, our government and our response capabilities are on life support because we rely totally on generated power. And of course to have generators, State Sen. Kirk Talbot have to have fuel, so fuel has been short because two-thirds of our refinery capabilities were knocked out.

– Joe Valiente

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Uncle Mitch is still in and out of consciousness. Uncle Mitch's on life support, my brother went there yesterday and played him some oldies, and his whole body started moving. So, he really loved that. The nurses at the UCLA Medical Center and the doctors are taking such incredible care of Uncle Uncle Mitch, but Uncle Mitch's got a long road ahead of Uncle Mitch.

– Alyssa Milano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a huge step for law enforcement to take, and for Service Employees International unions to take, but at this moment, regarding this profession, I'm not gon na say it's on life support, but we've lost confidence of the public in many areas throughout the country.

– Fred Redmond

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Juche is truly being tested for the first time because the pandemic has forced North Korea into self isolation, when until now, it has been able to rely on China as a life support even during the harshest of economic times.

– Duyeon Kim

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If you cover it, you might as well take away someones life support.

– Delta BingoCEO Cam Johnston

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was out cold for three days on life support, my family didn't know where I was.

– Elijah McKnight in 2019

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Sharlene Miller, Sharlene Miller, told the BBC. Millerdeveloped pneumonia and his condition grew worse.His kidneys also began to fail and he developed blood clots. In the week between Normas funeral and her partners funeral, each day Scott seemed to deteriorate and they were running out of options. We were at the point where we were maybe going to have to make a decision about turning off his life support, Sharlene Miller said, per the BBC. The same staff that helped Sharlene Miller also were with his mother during her last days. MAINE HOSPITAL SEES CORONAVIRUS RESURGENCE AFTER VISITORS LEARN OF POSITIVE TEST RESULTS WHILE ON TRIP The staff in the hospital were absolutely amazing, two or three of the nurses who treated me were with my mum when she passed away. Every part of the NHS was amazing. Sharlene Miller warns people to be vigilant against the virus and not becomplacent.

– Sharlene Miller

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our economy is on life support now, we will be testing the waters in the next few months to see if it can emerge safely from our policy-induced coma.

– Erica Groshen

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The family's biggest concern is that we have four members of one family who have passed, two on life support and one stable.

– Paradiso Fodera

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is the first suit we've designed in about 40 years, what you saw today was a prototype of the pressure garment. The life support system is back in a lab in Houston.

– Chris Hansen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What you saw today was a prototype of the pressure garment. The life support system is back in a lab in Houston, we want systems that allow our astronauts to be scientists on the surface of the moon.

– Chris Hansen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The old oligarch system is still clinging to life, and corruption is its life support, ukraine must continue to pursue economic reforms in line with European standards and fully empower all of its anti-corruption institutions.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Were waiting for the right moment to put him through another surgery, hes depending on life support that hes receiving in intensive care.

– Pablo Rossini

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

She started exercising more, and then she started pushing herself harder than she had, and then eventually she started beating us in her plank challenges. She planked for a minute and a half on a ventilator life support -- beat her mom, that was around September.

– Brie Kerschen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We rolled out a new low dollar campaign to reach a wide variety of supporters and as part of that effort reached out to our network, just as Ms. Nixon’s campaign has dozens of contributions from her staff and their family members, as the latest filing and poll numbers show, Cynthia’s campaign is on life support, which is why her lines are getting increasingly more combative and desperate.

– Abbey Collins

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

They were going to turn my life support off, but they wanted to give me one more night to see if I improved and they wanted to give my family a chance to say goodbye.

– Alex Lewis

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

[ They ] immediately put Keila Lino on a ventilator and from there Keila Lino just went downhill, by that evening, Keila Lino was on life support.

– Brad Fauts

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[ They ] immediately put her on a ventilator and from there she just went downhill, by that evening, she was on life support.

– Brad Fauts

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We gave Evan the last rites and then we turned off her life support, she was declared brain dead…The hospital kept giving me a sliver of hope. I knew it was wrong, but I wanted it to be true. So I hung on for a week. It’s rough. I feel like I’ve been very, very beaten. I hurt from head to toe with the pain of losing my daughter.

– Natalie Wood

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It really speaks to the fact that the challenging job of a caregiver is not necessarily restricted to a few months before one dies, certainly individuals are more vulnerable at the end of life. Support for caregivers may be more urgent at the end of life but important through critical illness.

– Katherine Ornstein

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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