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/dɪpˈɛndəns/
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NOUN
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
How To Use dependance In A Sentence
- The Beeb is a government-controlled “independant” [sic] broadcasting corporation and has a history of kow-towing to various governments in the past even though they are evangelical about their independance from political pressure. Catflap to US TV networks
- This is good news for Canadians as we seem to have finally shed our dependance on our neighbours to the south and have spread out economic dependancies to a broader international market. Max Keiser: U.S. Dollar Euthanasia While Finns Legislate Days-Off for Shagging
- Quit spending taxpayer money on social programs that create long-term dependance on government rather than foster independence from government. Matthew Yglesias » Hagel-Bloomberg?
- The historic Siege of LondonDerry was horrible for the besieged. 15 years, the leaders of Scotland sold out their Independance, and the great Ulster Scot migration commenced. 70 years later, in America, when the English were puling the same tricks, removing Govenors, Disbanding legislatures, imposing taxes without the consent of the people or represention in Parliament, The Scots-Irish were ready to fight. :brightly: Hi! Are you a Democrat in a Republican seat? | RedState
- He extols the virtue of Scots-Irish independance, then votes for a HC bill that mandates the behavior of every individual and corporation in the country. How the worm has turned in Virginia. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
- I confess, I once thought that he had been oblig'd to his Commentators for most of the Beauties they celebrated in him; but I am now, on a nearer view, so well satisfied to the contrary, that I can ne'er think his Poem writ by piece-meal, without any Connexion or Dependance: wherein Dionysius the Halicarnassian very justly praises the Order and Management of the Design, as well as the Grandeur and Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)
- Le sentiment d'être une société distincte, l'impression que les Terre-Neuviens ont été roulés par le Canada central et la tentation de la revanche, le tout mâtiné d'un vague rêve d'indépendance : voilà les puits de pétrole politique auxquels carbure Danny Williams. The revenge of the Newfies?
- Une longue tirade, malheureusement pas vraiment traduisible vu l'heure et la longueur, sur la dépendance à internet, qui est à mon avis un faux problème. Addicted to Technology! — Climb to the Stars
- Serial readers/ users/ viewers and reduced dependance on the occasional, or casual consumption of media. Colin Morrison: Stand by for the (Gulp) Post-Murdoch Media Market
- I have sometimes doubted, whether the laws peculiar to England which compel the rich to maintain the poor, have not given the latter, a dependance that very much lessens the care of providing against the wants of oldage. The Volokh Conspiracy » Starve the Beast: