lifeblood

• Farmers and ranchers started having to worry about whether their lifeblood -- water -- was poisoned. —  Daily Kos
• Thank you - our members are our lifeblood, and a lifeline to hundreds of imperiled plants and animals.
• The wine is Christ's lifeblood, the old wineskins our carnal worldview, or post-modernism for most of us, and new wineskins the biblical worldview. —  Ask Andrea
• The symbolic centers of our economic lifeblood, our national defense, and our national seat of government were marked for destruction. —  GraniteGrok
• Tony Plath (at the University of North Carolina) had this to say about Bank of America's need for a new infusion of lifeblood from the American taxpayer. —  ataxingmatter

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