Meanings

chain of command

restraining order

feudal decree

French Revolutionary Calendar

to survive

National Revolutionary Army (Republic of China; 1925-1947)

bioinformatics

death penalty

retronym

demographic revolution

to take someone's life

order (to an employee from management)

to escape death

with one's life (protect, etc.)

literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)

preserving one's life

biophilia

Susanoo-no-Mikoto (deity, younger brother to Amaterasu)

to end one's life

theory of permanent revolution (esp. Trotsky)