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How to use the word Dependency in a Sentence? Page #2

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We have to get serious and creative about stemming the tide of drug overdoses and dependency.

Bill Clinton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our goal is to completely rid our defense industry of foreign dependency by 2023.

President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Not only are fall-related injuries the leading cause of injury death in older adults, but they often are the sentinel event in the so-called cascade to dependency, beyond the personal devastation, falls-related injuries have a significant societal cost.

Michael McCloud

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is absolutely impossible to control the exchange rate ... in the current economic conditions that the Russian economy is now in, by keeping its dependency on the price of oil.

Elvira Nabiullina

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Lay aside dreams of greatness and embrace dreams of dependency

The Omani shed

added by anonymous
11 years ago

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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