verb
definition
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
Examples of rely in a Sentence
But we do not have to rely solely on those.
Nothing. I just realized I can.t be with someone I can.t rely on, Rhyn.
For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State.
Your concern is touching, but I know I can rely on my friends here in the wagon.
The compromise that resulted from these conflicting forces suited Elizabeth very well; she had little dislike of Catholics who repudiated the papacy, but she was forced to rely mainly on Protestants, and had little respect for any form of ecclesiastical self-government.
For this we have usually to rely upon manuscripts (MSS.).
However, do not rely on it for hours when you need a break to sleep.
During combat situations while playing a solo game, you can rely somewhat on your teammates to assist you.
Her abilities forced even her husband to rely on her judgment.
You should never rely on them for going to sleep.
Many individuals rely on sleeping medications to sustain a good night's sleep.
Every round you complete, you get a bit of your health back, but don't rely on this too much, as the opponents get more aggressive as each round progresses.
But don't rely on the "Drama Pieces" to drive your victorious battle.
Most games at AnimixGames rely on the arrow keys and spacebar instead of point and click to operate.
As a runner trained by the best in parkour, you rely on stealth and acrobatics rather than machine guns and knives.
Born November 16th, 1952 in Sonobe, Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto never had a television as a child, and thus had to rely on his own imagination to keep him occupied.
As an agent, you rely a lot on your wits, athletics and weaponry to succeed in each mission.
However, don't rely too much on these since additional hints will not be presented until an allotted amount of time has passed.
If you like games that rely heavily on strategy, you will love this.
Occasionally they will rely on third party distributors and will out-source this portion of the video game publishing role.
We had to rely on our wits as well as our bodies to get into and out of some really rough places.
Moreover, owing to the spread of education, the king was no longer obliged to rely mainly upon the assistance of the clergy in conducting his government.
But the usual sequence has been observed under Pius X., who appeared to be greatly in favour of the Society and to rely upon them for many of the measures of his pontificate.
That a sovereign like St Louis should be able to associate himself officially with the feudalism of his realm to repress abuses of church jurisdiction; that a contemporary of Philip the Fair, the lawyer Pierre Dubois, should dare to suggest the secularization of ecclesiastical property and the conversion of the clergy into a class of functionaries paid out of the royal treasury; and that Philip the Fair, the adversary of Boniface VIII., should be able to rely in his conflict with the leader of the Church on the popular consent obtained at a meeting of the Three Estates of France - all point to a singular demoralization of the sentiments and principles on which were based the whole power of the pontiff of Rome and the entire organization of medieval Catholicism.
In 1618 Prince Maurice set out on a sort of pacific campaign, disbanding the civic guards in the various cities of Guelders, Holland and Zeeland, and occupying the places with troops on whom he could rely.
These positions, though Grotius's religious temper did not allow him to rely unreservedly upon them, yet, even in the partial application they find in his book, entitle him to the honour of being held the founder of the modern science of the law of nature and nations.
Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated and taken prisoner in the ensuing conflict at Momemphis; the usurper treated the captive prince with great lenity, but was eventually persuaded to give him up to the people, by whom he was strangled and buried in his ancestral tomb at Sais.
Retail outlets and there main data centers rely upon secure power to ensure continuous, reliable operations.
The only gen we could rely on were other trip reports we found on the internet.
There is no duty to serve notice identifying the hearsay statements or of an intention to rely upon hearsay statements or of an intention to rely upon hearsay.
When they are hunting divers hunters usually rely on large numbers of decoys to attract the ducks.
Now one thing I thought was that in our 2nd innings was that we could rely on Constant to give almost nothing.
Moreover, to rely upon criminal law to control human behavior is using a blunt instrument against a sophisticated problem.
Therefore, these algorithms rely on a locally linear internal model of the black box.
He has to rely on a kind stranger who takes him in despite his apparent madness.
Farmers rely on locally available natural resources to maintain soil fertility and to combat pests and diseases.
Standard experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology tend to rely on subjects who are highly literate and who speak standard varieties, or similar.
The majority of drug rehab centers rely on a widely used concept of group therapy.
Reading blogs is a bit hazardous tho as many, like me, rely on the odd topical snippet thrown in.
Here feminist approaches that rely upon a radically different ontological position in order to move beyond the mind/body split are utilized.
The other real need is for some kind of automatic stabilizer that doesn't rely upon policy action.
Since then successive generations of school children have come to rely on this method of identification.
Until then we have only supposition to rely on to place Charlie in history.
New implementations of TCP rely on the theory that the loss rate is proportional to the TCP throughput.
But the popes, Gregory III., Zachary and Stephen II., determining at any cost to espouse the national cause and to aggrandize their own office, continued to rely upon the Franks.
In this resolution he was influenced by the discovery that he could not rely on the expected support of Germany, and the discovery made him waver in his devotion to the German alliance, which had been the main pivot of his foreign policy; but his personal attachment to the emperor William prevented him from adopting a hostile attitude towards the empire he had helped to create.
Besides these, Moses refers to a whole array of Greek authorities, which were known to him from his constant use of Eusebius, but which cannot possibly have related all that he makes them relate.6 Although Moses assures us that he is going to rely entirely upon Greek authors, the contents of his work show that it is mainly drawn from native sources.
Others rely on genes that are known to scramble genomes.
Golf course superintendents often rely on cultural methods for take-all patch management.
There are all sorts of different ways to have a video game home based business, but by and large, you're going to have to rely on the internet and web traffic to make money.