The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals. |
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As tuition and fees have increased, students have depended more on outside earnings to fund their education. |
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As a landlocked country with primarily a desert terrain, it has until recently depended on rain as its main water source. |
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Gillard had few friends, looked up to and trusted Preston, depended on him, drank to excess, itinerant, living in shelters and hostels. |
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There was an unending search for blockbusters that depended on lavish sets and costly special effects, to draw crowds into the cinema halls. |
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His life and his livelihood depended on the continued good health of his son. |
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Now, that depended on a finding of fact about his nationality or a finding of fact about a right to residence in another country. |
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Circular knitting depended on natural elasticity of its ribbing to substitute for fashioning. |
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It wasn't like his life depended on it but there was a lot riding on this trip. |
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She gave myself and my crew a livelihood and we depended on her for our safety, but it is time to move on. |
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For many whose livelihoods depended on the yard the future has already disappeared. |
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And that was partially why he'd trusted her so much, believed in and depended on her so much. |
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Their survival depended on the continued support of powerful group leaders. |
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Finally, relations between lords and tenants were rarely controlled by written documents and depended rather on the memory of those involved. |
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A provost at a third college commented at the start of the year about how the success of a particular initiative depended on faculty input. |
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To them, those skulls portray a group of protohumans whose survival depended on withstanding terrible blows to the head. |
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The town's elite were retailers, whose prosperity depended on the railway freight rates. |
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Executives told me that my future promotability depended on my ability to work collaboratively. |
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The conclusions he deduced from it depended entirely on his empirical assumptions. |
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It would be a very fragile moral and political order that depended upon pretended ignorance of social facts. |
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In acquiring their original e-business employees, companies depended primarily on permanent staff. |
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He remains the only British statesman whose entire career depended on the control and use of military power. |
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For six years his power depended on the social and political relations created by that upsurge. |
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So it's pretty ironic that the average NBA player couldn't make a foul shot if his sneaker contract depended on it. |
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In the past, lifeboats largely depended on inshore fishermen to serve as coxswains and crew. |
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Buying food depended more on ration coupons and bottles of vodka than rubles. |
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Analysts who depended heavily upon intuition for their discoveries were rather dismayed at this counter-intuitive function. |
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Aerial defense of the Philippines depended on a rather motley bag of flying machines totaling 162 aircraft. |
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For hundreds of years, firearms depended upon fiery sparks from the forced impact of flint upon steel. |
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Since the 19th century, Mafia islanders have depended upon copra, or dried coconut, as their primary export to world markets. |
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Slavery depended on force, inviting the enslaved to answer with resistance. |
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Ultimately, the fate of photography depended on fixing the image so it would not fade or darken. |
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The study found the amount of spillover employees experienced both at home and work depended on whether they were introverts or extroverts. |
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It's a city that has depended on sins of the flesh for its economic lifeblood, but it is also a city that confesses its sins. |
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Unless attached to a mosque, they depended on voluntary contributions, tuition fees and free meals. |
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Without vowels, the ancients depended in part on contextual clues in order to read. |
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This report shows that the improvements depended on increased consultant input. |
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It depended on what made them to become warring enemies in the first instance. |
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Another of Tourgee's lines of argumentation in the Plessy case depended on the unreliability of train conductors in determining race. |
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Whether they could do so through Sweden depended on the state of the railways, roads, and telegraph communications. |
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Alert to the yearnings of the common man, they knew their security of position depended utterly on restraining the horde. |
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The answer depended ultimately on a policy decision informed by history and indefinable concepts of nationality and nationhood. |
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Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management. |
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The overall passive permeability barrier of the cells depended upon which side was the donor. |
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To clinch the transaction, a lot depended on caring for the customer and meeting his or her demands. |
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Exploration, however, depended upon private patronage despite theorists imploring that maritime expansionism should be state-sponsored. |
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Norman abbots energetically fought off the encroachments on the wealth and patrimony of the houses on which the abbots' own fates depended. |
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He stated that the level of a people's civilization depended upon their environment instead of their ethnicity. |
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In a famous passage of the Origin of Species he described how red clover plants depended upon humble-bees for pollination. |
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Any religion that depended on a drug for its spiritual high would be highly suspect. |
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If this ancient ape was anything like living chimps and gorillas, it depended mainly on fruits. |
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The evolution of homeotic mutants, according to Simpson, still depended on selection acting on populations of individuals. |
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Until the 1920s, the most accurate timepieces depended on the regular swing of a pendulum. |
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Ivan changes tempo, throwing back his head and swelling his voice around a soul-searing ballad, as if his life depended on it. |
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No empire could last for long if it depended entirely on naked power exerted from the centre outwards. |
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Children at the school worked towards Scottish Highers, but the subjects on offer depended on the staff the school could recruit. |
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The days when the team depended upon simply outscoring its opponents are long gone under coach Scott Skiles. |
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Then, the movement depended upon moral outlawry to move its agenda forward. |
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Profitability depended on accurate data and life assurance companies were active supporters of population censuses initiated by the government. |
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The more highly accurate quartz clocks followed and depended on the oscillation of quartz crystal for control. |
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The ornithopods, for example, depended on fleetness of foot and acute sight and hearing. |
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Imperialism depended on dominating, humiliating and exploiting others, and on drawing artificial boundaries for European strategic purposes. |
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He believed firmly that the future growth of the French economy depended on opening its frontiers and increasing international trade. |
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He cared for his horse, choosing only the finest horses to carry him for he knew his life depended on having a well-cared for mount. |
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Now they sit on pins and needles, figuratively speaking, because, now that you're back, they don't know if you are to be depended upon. |
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Hawks, whose survival depended on good eyesight, are said to have visited the hawkweeds to drink their juice to strengthen their eyesight. |
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First, the entire science of astronomy had depended on careful measurement from the very beginning. |
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But that was far from the end of the action, with both teams chasing another goal as though their life depended on it. |
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Upon such changing moods, and seemingly capricious events, the future spiritual welfare of our nation has depended. |
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I couldn't unscrew the cap of those little bottles with one thumb if my life depended upon it. |
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Chomsky did not speak Vietnamese, and so he depended on government translators, tour guides, and handlers for information. |
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Throughout history communities along the rivers, canals and waterways of the kingdom have depended on boats for fishing and transporting goods. |
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While it had a neat premise it depended on its campiness and the unjaded eyes of 1950s moviegoers to accept the special effects and the film. |
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All this depended in turn on mathematical progress, notably calculus developed by Newton and Leibniz, which allowed for actuarial calculations. |
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But for a long time, a cabinetmaker, joiner, or toolmaker who wanted some threads in wood, would have depended on the screw box and tap. |
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In place of high walls and legions of armed guards, security largely depended on a metal door with a padlock. |
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The exact timing of the splashdown was yet unclear and depended on the state of the sun. |
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Local people depended on turtles much the way native North Americans depended on the buffalo. |
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The contractor was subject to a yearly rental, composed of a fixed amount plus a variable amount that depended on yearly profits. |
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Unlike the armoured Romans, Britons mostly wore little or no body protection and depended on speed, impetus, and the long slashing sword. |
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Limerick can be depended on to be solid in defence and more than competitive at midfield. |
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The culture of the field has always depended far more on intuitive appeal than on solid research evidence. |
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He was also a doting uncle who could always be depended upon to looking after his treasured nieces and nephews. |
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He said the housing situation was becoming so serious that people from all walks of life now depended on social housing to find decent homes. |
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I speak as a man who can get lost in his own living room, a driver who for years depended on his then wife to navigate on every trip we took. |
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Nobles and bourgeois depended on extra-economic coercion to appropriate this mass of resources controlled by common subjects. |
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The consultants recognized, too, that their success depended on more than simply bolting a flashy Web site to an existing business. |
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There were tough times ahead and a lot of people depended on 'underground mutton' or else they might have starved. |
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The reported incidence of typhlitis has depended on whether clinical signs or autopsy findings were used as criteria for diagnosis. |
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Several customers had written checks that bounced and the vendor that she depended on for products went out of business. |
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The evolution of popular music and artists appearing in film began when silent films depended on piano playing for audio appeal. |
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The maximum distance across the grain ranged from 50 to 70 m, and depended on the expansion of the pollen bladders. |
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The degree to which channel amplitude was suppressed strongly depended on the sidedness of the polymer application. |
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The officers thought that in modern mechanized warfare dismounted infantry would delay the mobile units on which success depended. |
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The 3D illusion depended on binocular vision, but de Toth only had one eye. |
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The Buddha had clearly said that his religion depended on bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, upasakas, and upasikas. |
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Through rain, through wind, through biting cold, he ran as if his life depended on it, and it may very well have. |
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Always commanding only a tiny military force of Europeans, he depended on negotiations with and use of existing traditional power structures. |
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When settlers did secure control of large areas of land, many depended on their African tenants. |
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The department has never depended on Wasa for water in the areas serviced by the salt water main system. |
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Overnight Marlborough lost much of the through traffic on which many of its businesses depended. |
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Success depended on dragging the seine close to the bottom and banks and closing it before fish escaped. |
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Like so many institutionalized evils, segregation ultimately depended on public accommodation. |
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These picture puzzles depended, like puns, on the assonance of words that have different meanings. |
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Primary and secondary industries depended upon government-funded services, infrastructure, and immigration. |
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And so, ironically in a land whose enormous wealth depended upon its control of seaborne trade, this entire vast sweep of coast was almost empty. |
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Liverpool went bust because its economy depended on the docks, and it was on the wrong side of the country for trade with Europe. |
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The appellant's action was a test case on which eleven other cases raising the same issues depended. |
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An explanation in terms of telepathy was also favoured by the fact that the success rates depended on who was calling. |
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The brewers who made the beer and bought in the malt ultimately had power over the maltsters who depended on them for their trade. |
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They were of the Shoshonean Comanche stock, and depended on the land for all their needs. |
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He paces around in a panic comparing makes and models of everything and anything as if his life depended upon it. |
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Composers set countless lyrics to music, and opera depended upon the poetry of the libretto. |
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The duration of incubation depended on the tissues under study and the stage of plant development. |
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At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand. |
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People also knew that a decent retirement income depended on saving enough cash. |
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In midfield Callum Bott tackled as though his life depended upon it and broke up countless home attacks. |
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They were a good type of sheep for the runholders who depended on wool for their income. |
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They sat in the large leather armchairs to wait the arrival of the man on whom so much depended. |
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The acceptability worldwide of the fiat-dollar reserve system depended on the illusion that it was a good or adequate store of value. |
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The villagers were not consulted, even though the river was their only source of water and they depended on the sago trees for food. |
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He also obliged with some post-match waspishness as he observed that Chelsea had depended on the long ball. |
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He was motivated to figure out the problems, but he had difficulty adding mixed numbers, for which he often depended on his partner. |
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So the freedom of many white Americans depended on the dispossession of this other people. |
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Due service within the jurisdiction depended on whether that defendant had at the time of service been domiciled in this country. |
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These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who dispensed the medicine. |
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He warned their entry to the EU depended on member states ratifying the accession treaties. |
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He said innovation was a concept whose success in industry largely depended on the assertiveness of practitioners. |
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This would mean ructions in the family, whose shaky economic viability depended on your starting work the day after your 14th birthday. |
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However, the ultimate success of the Australian Army depended on Allied air support. |
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One chose witchetty grubs diligently for their flavour depended on the host tree, lemon aspen being especially tasty. |
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Throughout history communities along the rivers, klongs and waterways of the kingdom have depended on boats for fishing and transporting goods. |
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After all, medieval warfare depended on siege engines which were nothing more than big levers to breach castle walls! |
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Economically, coffee production came to dominate as Colombian insertion into the world market economy depended on this export commodity. |
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She has not depended on the Respondent for financial support other than for child support, which he has always paid. |
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They were, essentially, already regular armies, but depended for manpower acquisition on mercenary recruitment. |
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But their ascent to this status depended largely on the processes of industrialisation, urbanisation and commodification. |
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The discovery, in 1891, of the variation of latitude by Seth Carlo Chandler Jr. depended in part upon Chandler's invention of the almucantar. |
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Although they went afoot they expected to come back mounted for when they raided another tribe they depended on stealing enough horses to get away on. |
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Camel raisers depended on foods produced by farmers in the region's oases. |
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Where the U.S. once depended on its own forces to determine who was military material, this time the Iraqis will decide. |
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The opposition in Belarus has always depended on international support for its cause. |
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The residents said they depended on rain water or untreated water from wells and were sometimes forced to walk long distances in search of the commodity. |
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Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. |
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To never, ever, ever put my livelihood in a position where I depended on white people liking me. |
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Almost half of suburban housing, notes historian Alan Wolfe, depended on some form of federal financing. |
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But they depended on Bell as an expert and a negotiator, fluent in Arabic and used to the schisms and vendettas of the region. |
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Historically, the formation of the state depended on a sexual division of labor and the relegation of women to a private, domestic, devalued sphere. |
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Thus the repopulation of the Southwest by whites depended on kin support. |
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Highly mechanized farming has for decades depended on fossil fuel and chemicals. |
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You never know just what you will get when you plant dahlia seeds, but this type can be depended on for small flowers in assorted colors on dwarf plants. |
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Previously the shop had depended on the tourist trade to sell CDs and tapes of traditional Irish music and an extensive stock of musical instruments. |
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But the real progress of the fastest movement has depended on the slowest process. |
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Fame and prosperity were just around the corner, although both depended on Monet painting landscapes and scenes that would appeal to buyers in the bourgeois market. |
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Women's economic situation fundamentally depended on their marital status. |
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It was five o'clock in the morning and she was muttering to herself and holding the fuzzy white bathrobe tightly closed, as if her life depended on it. |
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During my more tonsorially experimental phases, I noted with interest that the levels of attention I would get from in-store security staff depended on the colour of my hair. |
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The towns and townspeople depended on the tribute for their sustenance. |
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They hired home-economists, mainly women, to teach housewives how to use irons, electric stoves, and other appliances that depended on gas electricity. |
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Because access to resources depended upon being inside the state apparatus, patrons rewarded supporters with sinecures in the government and nationalized industries. |
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Mr. Hutchings did not himself give evidence, and so I think that I should disregard the evidence of Mr. Hendy where it depended upon the uncalled evidence of Mr. Hutchings. |
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Within 30 years 120,000 people were working on spinning mules across the UK and it was estimated that 700,000 depended on them indirectly for their livelihood. |
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I would be deeply concerned if my very ability to exist in this country depended upon the slap-happy approach that has characterised Government IT projects to date. |
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But he had no middle-class guilt, recognising from the first that the Soviet system depended on total repression, on slave labour and on the concentration camps. |
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I think the exact make-up of the triune goddess depended on what city you came from and what mysteries you were initiated in, as well as period as Anna points out. |
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Being young and oh-so-clever, I thought it would be witty to close my oration with a quote that depended on the f-word. |
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All resistance depended on infrastructures of anonymity, and for that reason the names of many essential resisters went unrecorded except at local level. |
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They had need of us, and we had come, to act the age-old ritual, try to lift the curse from off their lands, give back to ailing Earth the potency their lives depended on. |
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Analysts made more money by touting stocks they knew were far overvalued than by providing accurate information to their unwary customers who depended on them. |
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In the texts of the period, there were no spaces between words, punctuation was meagre, and reading depended on a capacity to see patterns in the unbroken lines. |
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They said the terms in office of legislators depended solely on the acceptance of their constituents who elected their representatives every five years. |
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We consider that the man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of emergency. |
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So I simply focused on another British movie star who has depended on his juvenile appeal and not his puerile one. |
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Her husband had a round-the-clock nurse and his ability to travel depended on his medical condition, the petition says. |
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However, for long periods, they were outfought by the home side who hustled them out of their stride and played as if their lives depended on the outcome. |
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Atoms were changeless and ultimate, in the sense that they could not be broken down into anything smaller and had no inner structure on which their properties depended. |
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The success and widespread use of this method in 20th-century sculpture has depended on the invention around 1900 of fusion welding using oxyacetylene welding equipment. |
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They often needed a greater amount of working capital to pay wages or purchase raw materials, which depended on a reputation for trustworthiness and honest dealing. |
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Since 1941, when the first bacterial infection was cured with a concoction derived from the fungus penicillium, we've depended on antibiotics to be there when we're sick. |
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Max felt that the fate of all mankind depended on this one decision. |
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However, the optimal cluster size depended on the point of inflection of the curve describing the relationship between female mating bias and cluster size. |
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Their success seemed to depend on their intensity, and their intensity depended on the rhetorical ability of the preacher to inspire a sense of contrition for past offenses. |
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They cling to conventional wisdom as if their lives depended on it. |
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One invention, the Coolgardie safe, depended on the evaporation of water from the surface of hessian, which was fixed to the frame of a kitchen cupboard. |
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Industrial expansion here depended on coalmining and iron working. |
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All this obviously depended on the availability of funding to ensure the continuation of the service and he hoped that funding would be copper-fastened to this end. |
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Getting supplies to the farm depended on the rivers not being in flood. |
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We have told how posties found undelivered mail piling up in sorting offices and how city events that depended on post getting through have been scuppered. |
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Not all of the early English settlements were founded entirely as commercial operations, though all of them depended on trade for their livelihood. |
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With the numerous difficulties the country is experiencing due to the frail economy, Zambia has depended on such close allies to surmount her difficulties. |
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He did, however, keep in touch with a wide circle of courtiers and especially with the dauphin Henry upon whose eventual accession his hopes of recovery now depended. |
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By 1973, when she founded her company, her work was grounded in a presentational mode that depended on the stage environment of lighting and decors. |
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The point is that both the moderation of the constitutional Girondists and the anti-constitutional Jacobins had depended on being able to stir and steer popular power. |
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The capacity of North America to pay for its imports on such a scale depended to a considerable degree on its earnings from supplying the plantations of the West Indies. |
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Matisse wrote letters to Amelie on a nearly daily basis, and depended on her support in ways that his contemporaries found fascinating and even slightly amusing. |
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The problem was that in a community where hunters depended on each other's support in times of difficulty, the man who shot dogs would soon find himself isolated. |
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He depended on financial support from a variety of friends who pitied him. |
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But notice that the success of the joke depended on the tension that preceded it, and the secretary may have minded the tension more than she appreciated its diffusion. |
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The limited economic sanctions that it had approved did not include an embargo on oil exports to Italy, upon which Mussolini's military machine depended. |
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But until now estimates of the shark harvest were little more than guesses, because the numbers depended on shark fishers to report their catches. |
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In the end, that was what this arrangement depended upon, that the putative trustee should acquire the property beneficially and be discharged of its obligations. |
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Certain kilns were renowned over others and prices depended on the reputation of the kiln. |
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During most of the colonial period, the Philippine economy depended on the Galleon Trade which was inaugurated in 1565 between Manila. |
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Seasonal work in agriculture had depended mostly on Bretons and mainland Normans from the 19th century. |
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As in other cultures, the fate of other family members depended on the assets of a family. |
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The oil discovery led to petrochemical industry development and also the establishment of industries that strongly depended on oil. |
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The whole nation depended on these communications, and the void which they left filled up with rumours. |
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Chris's use of tactile exploratory procedures depended on the type of task, her familiarity with it, and the manipulability of the objects. |
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Much of German industry depended on the water and hydro-electricity produced by the dams in the Ruhr area. |
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The discovery that led to the theory of dark energy depended on studying the red shifts of bright light from supernovae. |
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Those roles depended greatly on the acquisition, improvement, construction, and maintenance of combat airfields. |
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In France and Britain by the end of the century, an estimated 10 percent of the people depended on charity or begging for their food. |
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The authors of a recent study hypothesized that the effect of glucose also depended on people's theories about willpower. |
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These people are buying stoves that their grandparents depended on to keep them warm in cold winters in an uninsulated house. |
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However, the Rump depended on the support of the Army with which it had a very uneasy relationship. |
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Like the Bambara Empire to the east, the Khasso kingdoms depended heavily on the slave trade for their economy. |
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Domestically, much of India depended on Bengali products such as rice, silks and cotton textiles. |
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Species rankings for carbon fixation rate, one estimate of competitiveness, depended on light levels to which their leaves were exposed. |
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The diagnosis of ACS, therefore, depended on detailed cardiological assessments. |
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He knew that increased cloth production in the United States depended on such a machine. |
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But also to a lesser extent British interests were hurt in the West Indies and Canada that had depended on that trade. |
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She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. |
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The New England mills and their labor force of free men depended on southern cotton, which was based on slave labor. |
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The coal mining industry depended on using soughs until the mines became too deep to be drained by this means. |
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Artists depended entirely on patrons while the patrons needed money to foster artistic talent. |
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The great empires depended on military annexation of territory and on the formation of defended settlements to become agricultural centres. |
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The Eastern Bloc also depended upon the Soviet Union for significant amounts of materials. |
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The state depended on agriculture, but mechanization put many farm laborers out of work. |
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However, joint precedence among rank holders often greatly depended on whether a rank holder was sovereign, whether of the same rank or not. |
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Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax. |
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The Ciskei had non-Xhosa-speaking white psychiatrists who depended on interpreters. |
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Despite the potential wealth of its natural resources and growing agricultural production, tsarist Russia depended on foreign loans. |
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Empires such as the Incas depended on a highly centralized administration for the distribution of resources. |
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British strategy depended upon an uprising of large numbers of armed Loyalists, but too few came forward. |
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Dominance status depended on age and sex, with older animals generally being dominant to young ones and males dominant to females. |
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The Imperial Government depended heavily on the perceived reliability of the Cossacks. |
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In the past, candidates depended mostly on personal ties with voters at diwaniyas, traditional evening social gatherings. |
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The gluing ability of cornstarch adhesives depended on their capacity to disperse and permeate in surface of adherends. |
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The Dutch depended on the indigenous population to capture, skin, and deliver pelts to them, especially beaver. |
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These efforts, however, depended on the deviant giving his correct name when arrested, something, unsportingly, he persistently failed to do. |
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Since the missions depended upon healthy workers for their prosperity, these illnesses foretold their demise. |
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The regime, as it had been founded by Maurice after his coup in 1618, depended on the emasculation of Holland as a power center. |
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The size of the viral load drop from TMC125 depended very much on having other active drugs in the regimen. |
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The outcomes of palatalization depended on the historical stage, the consonants involved, and the languages involved. |
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The man suffered from innumeracy stemming from a brain injury, and depended on his wife for all financial matters, no matter how trivial. |
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Portuguese rule lasted for around 80 years, during which time they depended mainly on Sunni Persian governors. |
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Access to the Museum depended on passes, of which there was sometimes a waiting period of three to four weeks. |
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Besides, if you worked up to be a cadet officer, you got to wear a Sam Browne belt, from which depended a nifty saber. |
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Their results revealed a grandparent's contact with grandkids depended on whether they were the children of a son or daughter. |
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Although Indians of eastern North America depended on groundhog meat as a staple in their diet, I am not yet ready to take that step. |
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Once Bolivia's government depended heavily on foreign assistance to finance development projects and to pay the public staff. |
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The streets, gates and buildings present depended on the requirements and resources of the camp. |
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Aristotle was prevalent throughout the curriculum, while medicine also depended on Galen and Arabic scholarship. |
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This role depended greatly on the individuals' political influence and personal influence with the monarch. |
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Both authors, however, depended on unreliable sources and placed Crux in the wrong position. |
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In the Middle Ages Romans depended for water on wells and cisterns, and the poor dipped their water from the yellow Tiber. |
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Kublai depended on the cooperation of his Chinese subjects to ensure that his army received ample resources. |
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It held that a nation's wealth depended on its accumulation of gold and silver. |
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Officials were arranged in strict order around the emperor, and depended upon the imperial will for their ranks. |
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Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it? |
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Until 1800 Malta depended on cotton, tobacco and its shipyards for exports. |
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The extent to which different religions or denominations were persecuted depended much on the time period and regional or city leaders. |
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The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. |
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Several African nations such as the Calabar and other southern parts of Nigeria had economies depended solely on the trade. |
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This sphere of influence system depended upon the fragmentation of the German and Italian states, not their consolidation. |
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During the Kievan era, trade and transport depended largely on networks of rivers and portages. |
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The wealth and income of the Rus' depended heavily upon trade with Byzantium. |
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The careers of many clients and adherents depended on his patronage, as his financial power was unrivaled in the Roman Republic. |
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There, people's names depended on places, exonyms, and internal and external autonyms that all together made them very complicated. |
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Ancient Egyptians, whose agriculture depended exclusively on the Nile, deified the river, worshiped, and exalted it in a great hymn. |
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Passive storage depended on the type of material that the object was made of, and could vary considerably. |
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One life line that Lebanese economy depended on was the money inflowing from abroad which was estimated at eight billion USD annually. |
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The violent treatment meted out by da Gama quickly brought trade along the Malabar Coast of India, upon which Calicut depended, to a standstill. |
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It was, to put it another way, quite astonishing to see how much, and to what at extent, the party-state depended on lies. |
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Although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. |
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Built on the banks of the Skeena River, the city depended on the steamboat for transportation and trade into the 20th century. |
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Whether or not a blockade was seen as lawful depended on the laws of the nations whose trade was influenced by the blockade. |
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Napoleon's invasion plans for Britain depended on having a sufficiently large number of ships of the line before Boulogne in France. |
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Phoenicia's and Egypt's power, Carthage's and even Rome's largely depended upon control of the seas. |
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Frankish government and culture depended very much upon each ruler and his aims and so each region of the empire developed differently. |
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All of the regions mainly depended on trade, manufacturing and the encouragement of the free flow of goods and craftsmen. |
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The continued English hold on Calais however depended on expensively maintained fortifications, as the town lacked any natural defences. |
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The actual number of legions present at any base or in all, depended on whether a state or threat of war existed. |
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For thousands of years, indigenous peoples of the Arctic have depended on whale meat. |
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The construction of a von Neumann computer depended on the availability of a suitable memory device on which to store the program. |
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Species which depended on photosynthesis declined or became extinct as atmospheric particles blocked solar energy. |
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Early kings of England had no standing army or police, and so depended on the support of powerful subjects. |
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Many of the northern colonists depended upon their ability to hunt, or upon others from whom they could purchase game. |
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As the revival unfolded Roberts is said to have depended increasingly upon what he considered the guidance of the Holy Spirit. |
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The failure of the works was a devastating blow to the local community, as it had depended heavily on the works for its economic livelihood. |
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The total of the agweddi depended on the woman's status by birth, regardless of the actual size of the common pool of property. |
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He knew that its abolition depended on a considerable retrenchment in government expenditure. |
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What remained of a national government depended on the support of the insurrectionary Commune. |
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She depended on donated items for her armor, horse, sword, banner, and other items utilized by her entourage. |
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For cavalry, by far the weakest element of the Scottish host, Wallace depended on the Comyns and the other noble families. |
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The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. |
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Scottish armies of the late medieval era depended on a combination of familial, communal and feudal forms of service. |
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However, implementing the plans depended on continuing British economic prosperity. |
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British power, which depended on a liberal political system and the supremacy of the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. |
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The British people, who depended heavily on American food imports, generally favoured the United States. |
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