Those weeks gave us not so much a feeling of accomplishment as of sheer survival.

She would still be a child... But now the most pressing problem was sheer survival.

It was good for nothing better than sheer survival.

The survivors of both sides had made off in their boats; too concerned at first with sheer survival to bother each other.

The sheer survival of the state is at stake.

At one level, dark and primitive, she was desperately concerned with sheer survival.

Never before had she known people to work together without the basic motivation of sheer survival.

He's got more training and experience at sheer survival than any of us.

I had to learn to be good with children for the sake of sheer survival.

Little wonder then that the battle for sheer survival is so important a part of the task.