Word Finder - reliance

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The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.

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Your reliance on his expertise may be misplaced.

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The condition of being reliant or dependent.

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The industry is working to phase out its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.

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The boat was a poor reliance.

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A person or thing which relies on another.

But not much reliance can be placed on this kind of determination.

The universal reliance on animal life stimulated the study of the animal kingdom.

The major theme in hazard preparedness is self reliance.

It is the work of a school, in which high training took the place of the reliance on nature.

By reducing your reliance on fossil fuels, you can reduce your contribution to global warming.

Any careful perusal of modern attempts to recover historical facts or an historical outline from the book will show how very inadequate the material proves to be, and the reconstructions will be found to depend upon an interpretation of the narratives which is often liberal and not rarely precarious, and to imply such reshaping and rewriting of the presumed facts that the cautious reader can place little reliance on them.

The idea of self reliance has changed to the idea that someone else will watch out for us.

Intolerant reliance upon force presents greater difficulties to them; soon it grows quite obsolete.

Another argument in support of this belief, upon which much reliance has been placed, is found in the descriptions of diseases, and the words common in Greek medical writers, contained in these two works.

Although his faith in the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church never swerved, his strenuous protests against papal corruptions, his reliance on the Bible as his surest guide, and his intense moral earnestness undoubtedly connect Savonarola with the movement that heralded the Reformation.

The doctrine of the unity of contraries so far from being the denial of the law of non-contradiction is founded on an absolute reliance upon it.

It was by its constant reliance on monachism that the papacy of the 12th century had attained this result, and the popes of that period were especially fortunate in having for their champion the monk St Bernard, whose admirable qualities enabled him to dominate public q P opinion.

His reliance upon the knights, or middle-class landowners, who now for the first time appear in the political foreground, is all the more interesting because it is this class who, either as members of parliament or justices of the peace, were to have the effective rule of England in their hands for so many centuries.

It was out of his power to support his son at either university; but a wealthy neighbour offered assistance; and, in reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value, Samuel was entered at Pembroke College, Oxford.

The whole history of his researches proves how fully he was aware of the conditions necessary for the attainment of achromatism in refracting telescopes, and he may be well excused if he so long placed implicit reliance on the accuracy of experiments made by so illustrious a philosopher as Newton.

The two leading ideas are a dislike to the Unknowable in all its forms, and a reliance on the validity of our personal experience.

Unqualified reliance upon single gauges in the past has been the cause of serious errors in the estimated relation between rainfall and flow off the ground.

Very little reliance can be placed upon the details reported in the Jain books concerning the previous Jinas in the list of the twenty-four Tirthankaras.

It does not, however, appear that this danger assumed formidable proportions until after the Reformation; when, in the struggle made by the Catholic church to recover its hold on the world, the principle of authority was, as it were, forced into keen, balanced and prolonged conflict with that of reliance on private judgment.

At the same time it is but fair to say that bee-culture in the United Kingdom, if limited to honey-production alone, is not sufficiently safe for entire reliance to be placed on it for obtaining a livelihood.

All users need to acknowledge that any reliance on material posted by others will be at their own risk.

The HL was unusually candid about its reliance on policy and principle as well as precedent.

The strategy is to put more planning emphasis on the reduction of reliance on the car.

There was an inherent limitation, to the extent of reliance on the work of others from the start.

The food supply chain should decrease its reliance on non-renewable energy.

This was to protect the banks who had drafted their standard form debentures in reliance on Siebe Gorman for 25 years.

If managed on the right scale at a local level they can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, and provide rural employment.

Another trend in special education licensure is a gradual movement away from reliance on stand alone licensing.

No liability can be accepted for any direct or consequential loss arising from the use of, or reliance upon, this information.

The old name Reliance Gear Company Limited has therefore become rather a misnomer.

We will not, therefore, accept responsibility for any loss occasioned by reliance on the contents hereof.

The density measurements gave no ground for reliance on an unusual isotopic ratio.

Their reliance on the distinctive local red clay makes their production recognizable as coming from Devon or Somerset.

You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

Up to now heavy reliance has been placed on qualitative legal rules.

Continued reliance on manual controls is neither an effective nor efficient method to close the books each month.

But the Government is creating an unhealthy reliance on the private sector which will undermine the NHS.

Increase modal change to reduce reliance on the private car.

Government statistics indicate that there has been decreasing reliance in the primary phase on separate provision (in special schools or units ).

There is an increasing reliance on International Workers to solve the people needs.

The Tribunal was unable to place much reliance on what he said.

Yes, sometimes each extra kilo may destroy individual's self- reliance.

New technologies in plant and animal breeding have increased the value of our genetic storehouses, rather than reducing our reliance.

But with a heavy reliance on the drum machine to provide the backing, they sound a lot more tinny.

It only became turbid because of its reliance on the world of turbidity.

New methods of reducing, re-using and recycling waste are required if the reliance on landfill is to change.

France, and the French Catholics especially, feared lest conciliation should diminish the reliance of the Vatican upon Terms France, and consequently French hold over the of the Vatican.

Kant's reliance on the moral argument alone goes with his scepticism.

The-considerations are not very striking from a general point of view; but the author adds to the weight of evidence which some of his predecessors had brought to bear on certain matters, particularly in aiding to abolish the artificial groups " Deodactyls," "Syndactyls," and " Zygodactyls," on which so much reliance had been placed by many of his countrymen; and it is with him a great merit that he was the first apparently to recognize publicly that characters drawn from the posterior part of the sternum, and particularly from the " echancrures," commonly called in English " notches " or " emarginations," are of comparatively little importance, since their number is apt to vary in forms that are most closely allied, and even in species that are usually associated in the same genus or unquestionably belong to the same family, 2 while these " notches " sometimes become simple foramina, as in certain pigeons, or on the other hand foramina may exceptionally change to " notches," and not unfrequently disappear wholly.

Instead of the close protection from the outer air, the respirators, and the fancy diets of our fathers, the modern poitrinaire camps out in the open air in all weathers, is fed with solid food, and in his exercise and otherwise is ruled with minute particularity according to the indications of the clinical thermometer and other symptoms. The almost reckless reliance on climate, which, at Davos for instance, marked the transition from the older to the modern methods, has of late been sobered, and supplemented by more systematic attention to all that concerns the mode of life of the invalid.