1.   Keeping The X-Files alive without a full-time Mulder is a risky move.

2.   Leaders expressed hope that anti-cancer drugs will soon begin to keep a tumor in check for decades, much as insulin keeps diabetics alive without curing diabetes.

3.   Nobody gets out of this world alive without proper butt-coverage.

4.   Prisoners were dissected alive without anesthetics.

5.   The Bundesbank has managed to keep rate cut hopes alive without stirring up concern about faster inflation.

6.   The MTA could keep the passes alive without state or city aid, but the methods would be politically unpalatable.

7.   The leaves are already beginning to fall, about two months early, from shell-shocked trees trying to stay alive without water.

8.   French officials have repeatedly contended the two pilots are alive without providing a source for their information.

9.   The prisoners were often dissected alive without anesthesia to see the effect of the diseases on their vital organs.

10.   The prisoners were routinely dissected alive without anesthesia to determine the effect of the diseases on their organs.