The proper planting of a tree is essential to ensure survival.

She spoke what I call survival English. She spoke it well enough that she could communicate all she needed or wanted.

Fishermen's Village is key to our survival. We need to stay there. We've been good to them in the four years we've been there. Right now, there's a war going on and we're losing servicemen and women. It's not the proper time to be throwing the military museum out in the street and dishonoring veterans in anyway.

It sounded like someone beating a board on a tree trunk.

Christmas tree farmers, like virtually all other professional farmers, use agricultural chemicals in a careful and prudent manner and Christmas tree recycling has become the norm in virtually all American communities.

A tax of this sort would be passed onto students. The institutions don't have a tree in the backyard that they can go to and just put that kind of money in.