When needs seem most urgent even life-threatening the practice of slowing down offers calm and clarity.

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Throw rocky roads, tough competition, and even life-threatening illness his way, and the Apple chief executive is still going to come out on top.

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Thus, in addition to a wide range of other side effects, adverse events for MS drugs include the possibility of serious and even life-threatening infections.

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Challenging that notion within Japan can be risky, even life-threatening.

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It does, of course, depend how strong the belief is, but if that is what the patient demands - even in life threatening circumstances - then so be it.

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Last year, the ACLU and prisoner advocacy group the Prison Law Office, took this to court, filing a class action lawsuit that claimed Arizona prisoners were being denied adequate medical and mental-healthcare, even for severe, potentially life-threatening issues.

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But there is a code: always doing the honorable thing, even when it put him in life-threatening situations.

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But, even here, Pitt was more effective than were some subsequent British leaders facing life-threatening conflicts in this century.

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He admitted that even with his experience, Everest was still a "beast" to climb -- and a life-threatening one at that.

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Even when the fighting stopped, simply going to school or gathering firewood for cooking was a potentially life-threatening activity in many areas: landmines and unexploded bombs caused over 340 casualties in the first six months after the fighting ended, and all in an area half the size of Wales.

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