It can strike in the prime of life and is one of the few cancers whose incidence is exploding, for unclear reasons.
Quite the opposite: person after person in their fifties and sixties talked of being in the prime of life, about their enthusiasm for hard work, new job skills, new opportunities.
The distaste people may initially feel for the idea of "commercializing" organ transplants should be readily overcome by the unassailable fact that thousands of people--many in the prime of life--are needlessly dying.
Imagine yourself in the prime of your life and being thrust into something of which life and death hanged in the balance.
He spoke of how her family described her in victim impact statements as full of life and without a bigoted bone in her body, a girl who had been gunned down in the prime of her life.
Ms Steenkamp, who had been in the prime of her life, was well known in social circles and had graced the covers of a number including men's magazine FHM - but most South Africans would have known her simply as Mr Pistorius's girlfriend.
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He wants to stay on as president, with enhanced powers to oversee the work of the elected prime minister, and to institutionalise the armed forces' role in public life by means of a powerful National Security Council which the men in khaki would dominate.
Another run at Italy's highest office would be just the latest chapter in the life of the charming, billionaire three-time former prime minister.
Seau, like others, was in what non-super athletes call the prime of life (43 years old), on the cusp of prime time earning potential.
According to The Associated Press, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday he believes the loss of life in Myanmar has been "far greater" than is being reported.
Across social media, where this election has a life of its own, comments poured in to commend Mr Sharif, the two-time prime minister now facing the fight of his political life against Mr Khan.
Prime Minister George Papandreou is in the fight of his life.
Only 19% of people consider Parliament one of the three most influential institutions in their life, down from 30% in 2004, and the importance of the prime minister is rated even lower.
Mr Sweeney, originally from Merseyside but lived in London, was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a third girlfriend but had been the prime suspect in the killings, the court was told.
Xia believes China Life would be the prime beneficiary of expected growth in the Chinese insurance market.
"The state will do all that it must and that is possible, to guarantee the resumption of normal life in this important and productive land of Italy, " Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Tuesday.
Hugh Masekela devoted the prime of his life to the struggle of his lifetime ending apartheid in South Africa.
In 1989, Christer Pettersson was found guilty and jailed for life for the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
But before golf prodigies reach their prime, at the earliest in their 20s and more often in their 30s, a lot of life intervenes.
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When a government (like the present one) has a big majority, and when a prime minister (like the present one) is not interested in the Commons, the life of a backbencher can become mind-numbingly dull.
The Prime Minister has already asked the Committee on Standards in Public Life to look into the issue of MPs and second jobs, in order to avoid conflicts of interest and to reflect the fact that MPs receive a parliamentary salary for a full time job.
Certainly since the early nineteen-nineties, there has been a loss of aesthetic and moral discrimination in Italian life, an anything-goes feeling that culminates in the spectacle of a serving Prime Minister accused of contracting a minor for sex.
The Prime Minister has asked Sir Christopher Kelly and the Committee on Standards in Public Life to look at all of the relevant issues involved in MPs' allowances as speedily as possible.
Thinking (and the UNHCR's job) broadened under Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, who managed in his time (2001-2005) as head of the agency to breathe new life into some old buzzwords: repatriation, reintegration and rehabilitation.
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