"This threat from violent extremism, not just in Afghanistan, not just in Pakistan, but globally,is a real existential threat to freedom-loving countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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He thinks that the electoral law is an "existential issue" affecting all Iraqis, as well as the future of the country and should not be rushed to a vote.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Existential threats have a funny way of making people very nervous, and the long arm of the law is usually the first place to turn to when that happens.

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Shaft was an existential adventurer with a relentless libido.

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Existential threats have a way of focusing the mind.

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