Definitions for rely upon
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1. depend on, depend upon, rely on, rely uponverb

   put trust in with confidence

   "she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough"; "you can rely on his discretion"

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1. rely upon

   To rely upon means to depend on or trust in someone or something for support, help, or to fulfill a certain need or requirement. It refers to counting on someone or something with full confidence or certainty.

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Priya

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rely upon in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rely upon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rely upon in a Sentence

1. Gerald Ford:

   I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   The anti-abortion group had tried to rely upon California's' anti-SLAPP' statute to argue that Planned Parenthood was trying to chill Planned Parenthood officials First Amendment rights rather than sue Planned Parenthood officials on legitimate grounds.

3. Stephen Vladeck:

   Supreme Court has reaffirmed the President's sweeping statutory authority when Supreme Court comes to deciding who may and who may not travel to the United States, authority that both President President Donald Trump and future presidents will surely rely upon to justify more aggressive immigration restrictions.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   It's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced, but today's decision makes it impossible for prisoners to rely upon new evidence to prove that the lawyer representing them in state post-conviction proceedings was ineffective.

5. Steve Vladeck:

   Although this is a very technical ruling, its basic gist is that state supreme courts can’t rely upon novel state procedural rules to prevent state prisoners from bringing federal constitutional claims, (John) Cruz may or may not prevail on his federal claim – that he had a right to have the jury know that a life sentence would be without parole. But he now gets to make that argument in the first place.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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