Examples of use of question of life and death
1. With the great religions and an increasing number of voices calling for a change in the law, this issue demands serious public debate, which should culminate in our Parliamentarians deciding this agonising question of life and death.
2. Poland is a question of life and death for Russia." Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former president of Poland who first visited the Livadia Palace in the 1'80s when he served as a communist minister in Warsaw, highlighted the emotions Poles feel when he recently made a return visit.
3. But the histories of Herodotus and the speeches of Athenian politicians turned the fifth–century BC conflict into what it really was for the Greeks: a question of life and death, of brave democracy against imperial cruelty, of civilisation against barbarism.