life-blood

The most complacent Britisher cannot hope to draw off the life-blood, and underfeed, and keep it up forever.

THE SEA WIFE 2010

With quick, anguished breath, and life-blood ebbing from her, and eyeballs glazing, she spoke the truth.

CHAPTER 28 2010

Now, it is the service sector jobs that are being lost, and research and development, which is the life-blood of an Innovation Economy.

John M. Eger: Some Jobs Are Gone Forever John M. Eger 2011

She hung on, striving to press down with her teeth to the great vein where his life-blood bubbled.

The Wall of the World 2010

CARACAS—As doubts linger over Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's health, uncertainties also loom for the country's life-blood and top source of income: the oil sector.

Chávez Doubts Spill Into Venezuelan Oil Sector Kejal Vyas 2011

Now, it is the service sector jobs that are being lost, and research and development, which is the life-blood of an Innovation Economy.

John M. Eger: Some Jobs Are Gone Forever John M. Eger 2011

It is the essential, life-blood currency of the political economy of NGOs — moral self-congratulation in equal measure with moral self-indulgence.

The Volokh Conspiracy » No Righteous Gentile Awards, Please 2010

Governments across the globe recognize that the Internet is increasingly the life-blood of democracy -- that's why Egypt's regime has scrambled to shut down online communications in the face of vast pro-democracy protests.

David Segal: Fight America's Internet 'Kill Switch' David Segal 2011

With her expert command of dramatic metaphor, Catherine Banks shows us the life-blood of rural Canada flowing through the conflicted, bone-caged human heart.

Book Awards 2009

In my case, the university is the economic life-blood of the town.

Matthew Yglesias » What “Belongs” In the Stimulus? 2009