11.   While her life blood coursed through a machine, JoJo remained in a drug-induced paralysis.

12.   With tiny lasers now driving data down fiber-optic lines, these light pulses seem destined to become the life blood of our digital economy.

13.   Given the inadequate depth and breadth of our financial market, banks are still the main pipeline of money, the life blood of the economy.

14.   Tamaro shuns drawing-room cocktails and literary prize panels, the life blood of Italian intellectuals.