die for
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We knew that this was do or die for us all.
From Literature
“Do you think I’m going to die for want of food,” I asked, “when it’s there on the cliffs waiting for me?”
From Literature
When asked where she finds the strength to comfort these children, Jung didn’t hesitate: “From them. There’s no teacher who gets into teaching after Columbine who isn’t ready to die for their kids,” she said.
From Salon
Uganda -- a Russian ally - has also discovered a network of forced recruitment sending its citizens to fight and die for Moscow, while Gambia and Nigeria have also expressed concern about their nationals involved in foreign conflicts.
From Barron's
Sansa Stark, in moments of natural, sometimes self-loathing empathy, offers mercy to people she should fear or despise, and finds reciprocation in their own warped forms; Ned Stark, the father who surrendered his precious honesty to protect Sansa from Joffrey’s wrath, receives his own posthumous gift: the unshakeable loyalty of bannermen who will die for his children.
From Salon
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