reliance

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[ UK /ɹɪlˈa‍ɪəns/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈɫaɪəns, ɹɪˈɫaɪəns/ ]

NOUN

certainty based on past experience
he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists
he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun
the state of relying on something

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Quinn specialises in smaller, high street firms that, because of their reliance on risky areas such as conveyancing, are seen as the hardest to insure. Top stories from Times Online
As time proceeds she acquires a group of racially and ethnically mixed friends and acts with courage and self-reliance.
A day later, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a white police officer more than 20 years ago, despite what GOP Rep. Bob Barr called the conviction's reliance on "the skimpiest of evidence," and, in the words of former FBI director William Sessions, "pervasive, persistent doubts" about Davis' guilt. Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
In Being and Time, Heidegger carried Emersonian subjectivity and self-reliance to a point of new extremity.
He also introduced the concept of a stipendiary chairmanship, at one stroke freeing the council from its reliance on semi-retired highflyers from the business community.
From the very beginning of the automobile age, industry analysts, following the lead of farsighted engineers, issued warnings about the reliance on a nonrenewable fuel source.
If the aggrieved party is unable to establish the value of a loss of bargain he may seek compensation in respect of his reliance losses.
DELHI: India's Reliance Industries Ltd has awarded its term tender to sell diesel to traders Trafigura, Kuwait's IP. and Africa-focused Galana as it prepares for a surge in supply later this Oil company Reliance Industries is planning to export low sulphur diesel to refinery at Jamnagar comes on stream later this year, P. Raghavendran, the company's refining China will cut diesel exports in May by 40 percent versus April volumes to a four-month low of WN.com - Business News
About 10% of Japanese teenagers are overweight. Nutritionists say the main culprit is increasing reliance on Western fast food.
The 2,000 arrows and nearly 150 longbows found on board reflect the continuing reliance on traditional methods of anti-personnel artillery.

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