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A mongoose in a life-and-death battle with a cobra.
A life-and-death struggle between union and management.
You said it was a matter of life and death.
She's in a stasis right now, caught between life and death.
It was the religious expression of the unity of Israel which the life and death struggle with the Philistines had gradually wrought out.
His military authority was confined to Italy; and his power of life and death over the citizens was at an early period limited by law.
The constitution of Grattan's parliament offered no security, as the differences over the regency question had made evident that in matters of imperial interest the policy of the Irish parliament and that of Great Britain would be in agreement; and at a moment when England was engaged in a life and death struggle with France it was impossible for the ministry to ignore the danger, which had so recently been emphasized by the fact that the independent constitution of 1782 had offered no safeguard against armed revolt.