1.   Democratic congressional staffers warned that the committee would have to lobby hard just to insure the survival of the federal arts agencies.

2.   Farming these creatures, they say, may be a means of insuring their survival.

3.   He favors more federal intervention to insure the survival of farms, a stand that undoubtedly helped him in Iowa.

4.   She also wondered how the government could insure the survival of important health care providers in the inner cities, such as community clinics and public hospitals.

5.   The Orthodox rabbinate says it is upholding unchanged traditions that have insured Jewish survival for generations.

6.   The proposed plan also asks for more money to deal with AIDS and to insure child survival.

7.   Washington was insuring the survival of its principal military suppliers and, in a more subtle fashion, shaping an important industry to national priorities.

8.   While he hung on, he emerged much wiser and began to look for new ways to insure long-term survival.

9.   By driving back allied forces, China earned the reputation as a giant-killer and insured the survival of a friendly North Korea.