The longer a ruler can be kept alive, the longer his cronies can hang on.
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The legal documents mentioned above allow you to spell out under what circumstances you want to be kept alive.
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It also has a blank space where people can specify a state in which they wouldn't want to be kept alive.
Bloated beyond recognition, the beast in Washington has reached the point where it can only be kept alive using borrowed and printed dollars.
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Sabatino, the lawyer, says that patients can say they would not want to be kept alive with a feeding tube in every state.
This is an unfounded fear, of course, as Mone points out, because people need to be kept alive in order to become donors.
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But it is a toss-up for any bank whether it is preferable to be kept alive by laundered cash or cash lent by the state via a central bank.
They have to be kept alive by expensive and heavy life-support systems, and their relatives tend to make a fuss if, despite these, they get killed.
White angered Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz last week when he delivered a paper of "talking points" to Capitol Hill detailing reasons the Crusader program should be kept alive.
Lobsters are best cooked just before they are eaten to ensure freshness, taste and texture, so they need to be kept alive and, as Mr Middleton explains, they can get very stressed if not treated well.
Whether that spirit of goodwill can be kept alive when the afterglow has faded and Britons wake up to headlines about their worsening economic problems and a coalition government in deepening disarray remains to be seen.
Michael Schiavo came to advocate removing Terri's feeding tube, saying that she had told him before her accident that she would not want to be artificially kept alive.
The notion that unification will be achieved eventually has been kept alive by the hope that demographic trends within the North favour nationalists.
At the very least, a number of modernization programs kept alive this year will be unsustainable next year particularly if, as promised, further cuts are imposed.
And that the home run would be the shot that kept this most improbable team alive long enough to make history.
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Those planning to attend on the final day will have been pleased that the stout South African resistance kept the contest alive, but they will no doubt be hoping for rather more in the way of entertainment.
At the same time, its geography kept alive the dream that East Jerusalem, or some of it, would be an integral part of a future Palestinian state.
Those who attacked us sought to deprive our Nation of the very ideals for which we stand -- but in the aftermath of this tragedy, the American people kept alive the virtues and values that make us who we are and who we must always be.
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