decisions which affect our livesliveslives /laɪvz/ 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A freedom to take responsibility for their lives, even though society still holds the key to their final freedom.
- After living together for two years, sharing each other's lives joyfully, excluding anyone else from their intimate happiness.
- If you give them time and sufficient explanation and preparation, children can deal surprisingly well with crises in their lives.
- Our business and personal lives depend upon being able to use words successfully.
- Stick to the moral high ground by blaming the current system for not saving as many lives as it might.
- Television is only one facet contributing to the violence in our lives.
- This type of sleep onset insomnia is most often experienced by those who are accustomed to being in control of their lives.
- Well, these spectators have no predators in their lives.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES decisions which affect our lives She lives alone. She lives in dread of (=is continuously very afraid of) the disease returning. We try to help them rebuild their lives (=live normally again after something bad has happened).
decisions which affect our lives She lives alone. She lives in dread of (=is continuously very afraid of) the disease returning. We try to help them rebuild their lives (=live normally again after something bad has happened). (=used about animals)· Many rainforest species cannot live anywhere else.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the plural of life- High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
- Ye never knew how the other half lives!
- The Michael Steins of this world have nine lives.