81.   Others might argue that an alternative arts center cannot afford to be high-mindedly purist when its very existence hangs in the balance.

82.   Players employed strictly as brawlers, whose very existence in sports dominated by blacks would be the cause of national convulsion, have been more than tolerated.

83.   Pentagon officials have proposed a creative way to deal with harassment and all these pesky women whose very existence is disturbing the alignment of the planets.

84.   Q. Once digital technology has revolutionized our very existence, will my husband still hog the remote control?

85.   Ramon Horta, mayor of Pahokee, wanted to know why Miller was threatening the very existence of his town.

86.   Rising sea levels, these nations say, threaten their very existence.

87.   SDMI is far from reaching its goal, but its very existence provides a glimpse into the thinking of the recording industry.

88.   So he doubted the very existence of the practice, except perhaps in circumstances of near-starvation.

89.   Some contended that the very existence of these courses was a form of white, male hegemony.

90.   So he doubted the very existence of the practice, except perhaps when people are facing death by starvation.