For many women, this life-threatening crisis eventually proves to be an opportunity for life-enhancing personal growth.

He also released a report detailing a series of bureaucratic bungles that turned a small management problem into a potentially life-threatening crisis for scores of women.

Since Christmas 2003 she had been through (and survived) several life-threatening crises, most of which could be seen as sequelae of the initial septic shock.

I'd have to retain my cool in some kind of life-threatening crisis.

Because some cases include families with life-threatening crises, the selected townsfolk would, you might expect, be treated very gingerly.

Under the agreement, both agencies will immediately notify each other's emergency network in the event of a life-threatening crisis.

There are no life-threatening crises - it's not famine, it's not war.

In 2001, Clark-Sheard was faced with a life-threatening crisis when a blood vessel burst during a scheduled hernia surgery.

Tuesday was her day off, and unless one of her patients had a life-threatening crisis, she was neither needed nor expected at the hospital.

Put another way: for the 16 children waiting, there was a 1-in-20 chance of a life-threatening crisis.