Life-sustaining in a sentence as an adjective

Rather, their view of what was, or was > not, "life-sustaining" remained in flux.

The Order attached a list of "life-sustaining" businesses > that were permitted to stay open.

As an example, the amount of life-sustaining food we can get from a cow using modern techniques is so much more than by using old techniques.

" […] > > A: I believe that it's driven by the categorization and the > determiniation − I'm not sure that we wrote down anywhere what > "life-sustaining" meant.

The record shows that Defendants never > had a set definition in writing for what constituted a > "life-sustaining" business.

Consider the value, in space, of frozen water ice -- as spacecraft propellant and as life-sustaining hydration for astronauts and as a prerequisite for farming...

Defendants also set up a waiver > system, whereby a business deemed to be "non-life-sustaining" could > request permission to continue operations.

" The terms "life-sustaining" and > "non-life-sustaining" relative to businesses are not defined in any > Pennsylvania statue or regulation.

It was policy decisions that were made by our > team as to whether they considered, you know, an energy production > location or utility or supermarket to be life-sustaining as > distinguished from others that they did not believe.

Arguing that doing anything other than strictly necessary life-sustaining activities is morally questionable becomes absurd.

The Order states, in relevant part: > "[n]o person or entity shall operate a place of business in the > Commonwealth that is not a life-sustaining business regardless of > whether the business is open to members of the public.

Of giving people the ability to spend less of their time and energy on certain tasks?Five hundred years ago human beings spend most of their time producing life-sustaining staples -- growing what for bread, chickens and cows and hogs for protein, vegetables for vitamins and nutrients.

If the state congress of Pennsylvania had sat down in session and debated a law that divided businesses into the categories "life-sustaining" and "non-life-sustaining" and gave the governor the power to shut down one or the other category, then that would be fine.

[…] > > The record demonstrates that the policy team's unilateral > determination as to which classes of businesses would be classified as > "life-sustaining" was never formalized and the team never settled on a > specific definition of "life-sustaining": > > Q: Well, Id' ask you if you'd do me a favor.

Life-sustaining definitions

adjective

performing an essential function in the living body; "vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"; "life-giving love and praise"

See also: vital