lifeblood

This is the heart of the agent recruitment process that is the lifeblood of CIA today.

This is because immigrants are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — The lifeblood of the death-dealing Islamic State is diesel fuel.

Negotiation and compromise are the lifeblood of democracy, not poison to the body politic.

As an evangelical, that sort of contrarianism is in my lifeblood.

So speaks he, and takes the sword in his throat unfalteringly, and the lifeblood spreads in a wave over his armour.

Survey was the soul and lifeblood of the medical services supplied by Hospital Earth to the inhabited planets of the Galaxy.

The poor victim sank upon the floor, the lifeblood streaming from her heart.

That cancer is eating away the heart and corrupting the very lifeblood of this nation.

They delighted too much, to look upon the lifeblood flowing from the heart; and accordingly shed it most profusely.