In heart failure, a weakly pumping heart allows fluid to build up until patients gasp for breath.
And as people get squeezed by the financial correction, they gasp for breath.
If my feeds were not throttled before, they were now lying in a twiching heap attempting to gasp for air and not drown me.
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Even as people gasp for air in Moscow, Russia's authorities have begun to cut down the forests that surround the city, ostensibly to make space for a badly needed road from Moscow to St Petersburg.
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Cases of the bacterial disease pertussis, nicknamed for the "whoop" sufferers sometimes make as they gasp for breath after a long coughing spell, have risen from 1, 010 in 1976 to over 25, 000 today, according to the CDC.
But Dr Joseph Gilhooly, a neonatalogist at Oregon Health and Science University in the US which has a water birth programme, said that babies who do not get enough oxygen during childbirth may gasp for air, risking allowing water to enter their lungs.
The last-gasp finish for last season's 30-goal top scorer Holt - his third strike in five days - was one of the few moments of quality in a game that looked to be heading for a stalemate.
When Romney attacked him for being, gasp, a career politician he raised a laugh by pointing out Mitt himself would have been one if he had won his first senate race.
Nuneaton-born Whittingham coolly converted, but there was still time for David Bell to head against the bar as Coventry pressed for a last-gasp equaliser.
The only answer is for people to (gasp) use their common sense, make their own decisions about their welfare, and protect themselves and those in their immediate care.
After a cruel defeat in Cardiff, where some late errors of judgement resulted in Shane Williams crossing the line for a last-gasp try, Robinson was relieved that a late score had gone in his favour.
But Gilliland locked up with Ragan for that last-gasp push to the finish and the Front Row Motorsports drivers sliced their way to the front and put Ragan into Victory Lane for the tiny organization's first victory.
And Bristol held on for the vital win when Myler's last-gasp drop-goal drifted wide of the posts.
There was little sign of an equaliser for the home side and it took a last-gasp clearance from Branislav Ivanovic to prevent Bellamy extending City's lead.
With Saints scrum-half Mark Robinson in the sin bin, it took a last-gasp tackle from Oriol Ripol to deny Paul Bailey a winning try for the hosts.
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What brought Europe to war was not the great alliance blocks, nor the Europe-wide arms race (one aspect of the story that is curiously neglected here), but the last gasp of the old Eastern Question, which had plagued European diplomacy for a century.
Only a last-gasp tackle from Brew, causing James to lose the ball as he stooped for the line in the left corner, interrupted the Blues' procession of scores.
Scotland led 9-3 despite being pinned back into their own half for most of the match before Ryan Cross scored a last-gasp try, but Giteau was unable to improve on several earlier misses.
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