If this research proves successful, it could revolutionise the lives of people who currently need to take daily insulin injections to just to stay alive.

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But this figure excludes both social-security payments and the protection payments that many Colombians feel they are compelled to make to the men of violence just to stay alive.

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Despite feeling entitled by years of waiting around, you cannot expect instant gratification, particularly when a company requires drastic change just to stay alive.

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In the throes of his addiction, Taite was smoking crack every day, going for a week or more without sleep, and eating a Big Mac once a week just to stay alive.

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Instantly transformed from aggressive headhunter to weak and hunted, I spent most of the next two hours just trying to stay alive, slowly cobbling back my chip count.

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Zayer says that just trying to stay alive in Baghdad was taking up too much of his time.

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In contrast, the lowest-earning fifth of the population spend 17% of their money just trying to stay alive: their second biggest expense is food.

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If state-run organ banks can't deliver enough organs, then the terminally ill will take risks and, if necessary, break laws to stay alive, even for just a few more months.

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Prosecutors say Noah, the eldest of Yates' five children, fought the hardest to stay alive, but that she chased him down and dragged him into the bathroom, where she had just finished drowning his four siblings: first Paul, 3, then Luke, 2, John, and Mary, 6 months.

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