lifeblood

That kind of rebound matters: When pharma companies’ stocks rise, so does their appetite for acquisitions, which is the lifeblood of biotech.

Chips are the lifeblood of the economy, powering phones, computers and data centers needed to train artificial-intelligence models.

Even with the tweak, the policy effectively shutters the H-1B pipeline that, for three decades, powered the American dream for millions of Indians and, more importantly, supplied the lifeblood of talent to US industries.

He wrote: “Let us take care that we allow that tree to grow and blossom as it feeds on the lifeblood of Charles J. Kirk in the years to come.”

"This is injecting the government directly into the lifeblood of a major corporation's decision making."