And always, the governing force as we wish you now to understand this concept was whatever the individual believed had control over his immediate survival.

Diplomats and other experts say two major question marks hang over the plan's immediate survival.

The sudden death of the sovereign led to questions over the monarchy's survival and contributed to the fall of the Venizelist regime.

I believe the imposed instructions from their ruling class took precedence even over their own survival.

I wasn't telling myself a cautionary tale or gloating over my survival.

In the limited portion of the gathering open to the media, the courtroom battle over Microsoft's survival was not even mentioned.

Steinberg puzzles over his own survival even as he pieces together the rare combination of personal traits and apparent sheer luck that went into it.

He looked up at me again, wavering, as the two sides of him fought over his survival.

"I became convinced of that during the fight over Newcomb's survival."

Above all, the election sometimes seemed merely a distraction in the context of a city still facing questions over its survival.