Sami survived.

Sami survived the accident.

Sami escaped the flames through the window.

Mike was the only person who survived the plane crash.

Sami survived but his quality of life was deeply impacted.

Legend has it that even though he was thrown off of the university's tower, he survived with an eye injury.

He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

And so it transpired that a horse was killed, a god was made sin free, a Brahmin's ego was appeased, a woman ... was ruined, and a one eyed monkey was left ...

After the hearing, Anelka was banned from playing for France for 18 games, Evra was banned for five, Ribéry for three, and Toulalan for one, while Abidal escaped punishment.

In 2012, Lebanese journalist Moustafa Geha survived an assasination attempt, a cartoonist who drew Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was threatened, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis was banned from bookshops for offending Islam and Iran.

This sense of responsibility for other people's lives when he was just 17 and also his guilt for being a survivor, since he had escaped the camp when his friends had not stayed with him all his life.

I listened to a Sunni engineer whose association with an American construction company makes him a target for extremists, and to a translator of the Christian Mandaean minority who narrowly escaped death when the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was bombed in August 2003.

Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear cubs and training them to dance through extreme cruelty. Kartick Satyanarayan has been able to put an end to this centuries old practice, and in so doing discovered a lesson of wider significance make the practitioners part of the solution.

And another counselor said to me after the training, You know, I never knew why I survived the killings in my village, but now I know, because I am part of a nucleus of a new peaceful society in Afghanistan.

When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the incredible story of the climbers' battle against extreme conditions and uses brain imaging technology to map the medical miracle of one man who survived roughly 36 hours buried in the snow.