dependence
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Renewable energy and storage will continue to be "structural solutions to the exposure and vulnerability that the external dependence on fossil fuels represents", it added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The deals add to a Pentagon funding spree to reduce U.S. dependence on China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The prime minister wants local areas to move away from dependence on Whitehall grants and towards funding that rewards local economic growth.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Over time, he believes India should also reduce its dependence on "single, high-stakes entrance tests" by creating multiple opportunities for assessment and broader pathways into higher education.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
It was this dependence that made Aedes aegypti the perfect creature to carry yellow fever into Philadelphia in 1793.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
A breakdown of the properties registered overseas shows they went to a total of 44 different countries or crown dependences, including Russia and the Cayman Islands.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Here, though, the men’s relationship, with its kindness, virtues and mutual dependences, also offers a vision of an American dream not yet wholly corrupted by unbridled self-interest.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
These natural dependences carry with them natural uncovenanted obediences,—to parents, filial duty—to country, loyalty—to God, piety: all which are embraced in the Latin term pietas.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
Homes of American Statesmen":307 "His home was usually filled with friends, its dependences with their retinue and horses.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
Nor does the mind, that sees the necessary dependences and connexions that one cause has with another, think it possible that it should be itself confined to the shortness of this life.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
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