Only one supreme danger: action against survival of the Sisterhood.

Either way, there were long odds against survival of the unprepared.

It was a race now, with the odds against survival.

You have to balance progress for the profession against survival for the town.

We didn't know it, but the odds against survival were monumental.

Yet, something he could not see or grasp had nearly tipped the scales against basic survival.

He had described his personal anger as essential to having overcome the odds against survival at Bataan.

The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in 19th-century vernacular, a "forlorn hope".

They wanted to believe, but they understood too well the odds against survival.

There was no defense against it-raw survival was the best one could hope for.