a measure giving courts a greater chance to review decisions to end life-sustaining care
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As temperatures rise, deserts will spread and life-sustaining weather patterns such as the North Indian monsoon could be disrupted.
A protein-laden breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausages provides you with many more life-sustaining nutrients than a typical breakfast cereal or a couple of slices of toast.
We truly appreciate his selecting us as beneficiaries of this life-sustaining gift to our children.
In a 'living will' prepared in 2004, he had stated that he wanted to receive no life-sustaining medical treatment in such circumstances.
Sometimes described as our 'life-sustaining hormone', cortisol is produced in the adrenal glands and is responsible for metabolism, energy levels, blood pressure and combating illness.
The similarity between the rocks that trapped it and those on Mars raises the hope that comparable life-sustaining water could lie buried beneath the red planet's surface.
More than 90 percent of the iron in an adult human's 25 trillion life-sustaining red blood cells is recycled from worn-out cells.
Such an attack could close businesses and federal agencies, disrupt hospital service and communication, potentially knock out medical devices such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, and knock offline life-sustaining, critical infrastructure, including communications, energy networks, and food and water distribution networks.
Matthew, a 2-year-old Antioch boy who had waited 15 months for a life-sustaining kidney and liver transplant, had his new organs.
The new evidence pre-dates previous estimates of a life-sustaining oxygenation event by more than 50 million years.