(n.) The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.
(n.) Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(2) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(3) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(4) The causes of failure after acute injury include extensive local soft tissue and bony damage, severe concomitant head, chest or abdominal wounding, stubborn reliance on negative arteriograms in patients with probable arterial injury, failure to repair simultaneous venous injuries, or harvesting of a vein graft from a severely damaged extremity.
(5) Swinney admitted in that confidential memo that the "ageing profile of our population" and Scotland's reliance on volatile oil revenues could mean serious cost pressures on an independent state's spending.
(6) In 1967, the Tanganyika African National Union, now Tanzania, adopted socialism and self-reliance as its national policy.
(7) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
(8) The most specific definitions of heart failure are those obtained towards the end of the disease process, but reliance upon these means that, although few cases are misclassified, only manifest cases can be detected.
(9) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
(10) For the present, prudent clinical practice should include avoidance of whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusions and greater reliance on autologous blood transfusions.
(11) Critics argue that the idea is an expensive and probably unworkable smokescreen for continued reliance on fossil fuels.
(12) The possible reasons for this, apart from poverty and malnutrition, are ignorance, fear and prejudice in availing themselves of public health services and reliance on bomohs and handiwomen and fatalism.
(13) Compensation may not last, and too much reliance on it shifts the risk of reform to people who are least able to bear it.” Australians need to pay higher indirect taxes to fund welfare, KPMG says Read more The welfare lobby group commissioned the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Natsem) to quantify the impact of various policy shifts on different possible changes: A straight increase in the GST from 10% to 15%, which would raise an extra $29bn a year, costing the poorest families 7% of their disposable income and the richest 3.6% Extending the GST to fresh food, which raise an additional $7.1bn a year, costing the lowest-income families 2% of their disposable income (about $537 a year) and the richest families 0.6% (about $937 a year) Extending the GST to fresh food, education, health and water and sewerage, raising $18.6bn a year and costing 4.6% of the disposable incomes of the poorest ($1,199 a year) and 6.6% of the richest ($2,904).
(14) We warn against the reliance on heart rate and thoracic impedance monitoring alone for infants with recurrent apnea.
(15) He also told MPs the Libya campaign had shown Nato's over reliance on the US, and how it had "cruelly exposed" the limitations of the capabilities of some European countries.
(16) But a report by consulting firm Pöyry for Europe's oil and gas industry shows the reliance on Russian gas will increase to 50% by 2050 regardless of whether shale gas is part of the mix or not.
(17) MacFarlane is often criticised for over-reliance on pop-culture references.
(18) Conclusions regarding the physiological basis and disruptive effects of premenstrual symptoms may be biased because of the reliance on self-report questionnaires as a source of data.
(19) Reliance on ultrasonography for diagnosis in the 1980s resulted in fewer 'tumours' being felt; diagnostic delay was not shortened overall but serial ultrasonography showed evolving lesions in six patients.
(20) By recognizing the importance of mentorship in professional development, by being sensitive to some of the common barriers to its implementation, and by taking forthright steps to encourage its use, a greater reliance on mentorship can be exercised to the benefit of our profession.
Rely
Definition:
(v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(3) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(4) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(5) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(6) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(7) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(8) The politician had to rely on a handful of independent members of parliament finally backing her before she could take up office at the head of a minority government.
(9) Highly educated women are less likely than those with little education to elect sterilizations and more likely to rely on barrier methods.
(10) The identification of oncogenes relies upon transfer into host normal cells of DNA isolated from cancer cells.
(11) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(12) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(13) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(14) Screening for neuropathy in elderly patients should probably rely on clinical examination or electrophysiological tests.
(15) The other one is used by small precursor proteins and relies on the mature part within the precursor molecule and a cytosolic ATPase.
(16) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
(17) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
(18) The development of assays using a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) or lectins directed against the different carbohydrate epitopes expressed on this mucin may provide better diagnostic accuracy for pancreatic cancer than current marker assays which rely on detection of a single epitope.
(19) This case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis emphasizes the rarity of the disease and its exceptional diagnosis in infants which relies on the pulmonary pathologic study.
(20) The method of plastic embedding of tissue and implant and subsequent separation of plastic and implant for preparing sections of tissue adjacent to solid metallic implants relies on a successful separation of the embedment and the implant.