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How to use the word dependent in a Sentence? Page #5

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It's hopeful that we will have some Major League Baseball this summer, we are making plans about playing in empty stadiums. But as I've said before, all of those plans are dependent on what the public health situation is.

Rob Manfred

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We saw the international air transport system on which we are quite dependent for movement of cargo gradually shut down. So we are at the point now where we need to look for solutions to this.

Paul Molinaro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have families in our village who are dependent on us, whatever we earn here we send it back home. Now my family( will) have to live without eating.

Rezaul Islam

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The average contract length is under two years and the average income is close to that of the general public, many are incredibly dependent on their footballing skills and are not prepared for what would come after.

Jonas Baer-Hoffmann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I want people to feel like they can take these recipes and make them their own because our pantries are limited and dependent on the pantry that you have, i think all of these recipes will lend themselves to substitutions.

Carla Hall -LRB- @carlaphall -RRB-

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The answer to that is not to defund WHO, the World Health Organization, and allow that international institution to become more dependent on the influence of China and other nations. The answer is to fund it but to shape the World Health Organization in a way thats consistent with American realities and the values of liberal democracies.

Ro Khanna

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The virus is impacting the health, human rights, employment and careers of athletes but also the well-being of millions whose livelihoods are dependent on the sports industry and its supply chain, sports bodies have a responsibility to lower risks to athletes, insist on the free flow of information, and conduct themselves in an open and transparent way.

Minky Worden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're talking here about some 25,000 jobs in the region; that's roughly 15% of the overall workforce, this shows how dependent the region is on combustion engines.

Mayor Starke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The need to seal off the borders will have a devastating economic effect on North Korea. Because of international sanctions, Evans Revere pressure, and the absence of any significant aid coming in from the ROK( South Korea.In), North Korea has become even more dependent on China, with the border shut down, Pyongyang is probably panicking right now.

Evans Revere

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No government or ruler wants to be seen to sell Palestine so cheaply and hand Netanyahu such a victory and, in fact, end up footing the bill, at the same time, all states except perhaps Egypt are dependent upon the U.S. and will not risk angering Trump, given his propensity to act like a petulant child.

Neil Quilliam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Professionalism isn't dependent on position or salary. It's about disagreeing without being uncivil.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am grateful my country forced me to serve my country. Not for my country's sake, but for my own, in that diverse company, I learned to be responsible for others. I learned to be dependent on others. I learned there was more to life than me, me, me, me.

Jim Lehrer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Companies... both large and small, have found themselves dependent on the arbitrary whim of these platform giants, one algorithm tweak away from ruin, because their decisions are largely unaccountable, opaque, and result in sweeping consequences, the dominant platforms effectively serve as private regulators.

Committee Chairman David Cicilline

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are very dependent on American air cover and American intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. We need to diversify our assets.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are dependent on manufacturers to take steps to ensure the safety of their products.

The FDA

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The more dependent a country becomes on Chinese investment and trade, the more susceptible they are to coercion and retribution when they act outside of Beijings wishes.

Mark Esper

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's probably still dependent on a larger deal going through.

Tobin Gorey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A lot of retailers are hanging on because the broader economic environment is strong, interest rates are low, credit is available, no sector is more dependent on credit. If a recession comes, credit will get cut off both to the consumers and the retailers. That is going to mean a rash of bankruptcies and a lot of lost jobs.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What we have become used to as reliable water, may quickly change — so we have to be prepared, we have to be thinking about the infrastructure in advance, there's a big drive to become water independent — to control our own future — and that is largely dependent on the technologies we're developing.

Shane Snyder

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the last few decades, researchers have begun to understand that evolution of life on Earth is dependent on astronomical events also.

Birger Schmitz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are going to be highly data-dependent ... We are not on a pre-set course, we are going to be making decisions meeting by meeting.

Jerome Powell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The market could tighten significantly if the outage is indeed weeks and not days. You will see SPR draws. Arguably the world is dependent on strategic reserves right now.

Robert Ryan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's particularly dangerous in my opinion for the weather reports and warnings about hurricanes to be politicized because people are dependent on the weather report and if they are going to be struck with a hurricane they need to do preparations.

Mazie Hirono

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you were ever data-dependent, you are uber data-dependent now.

Loretta Mester

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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