The phrase "a life of dependency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lifestyle characterized by reliance on others or external factors for support or sustenance.
Example: "After losing her job, she found herself living a life of dependency on her family for financial support."
Alternatives: "a life of reliance" or "a life of dependence."
The third and fifth Satires deal with aspects of a life of dependency on patronage.
For people with a disability, inactivity can be the difference between a healthy, independent and sociable life or a life of dependency and despair.
Critics of one-for-one who slight the movement as plastering over the cracks may want to ask the child who had gone barefoot for years whether that donation of shoes will doom him or her to a life of dependency.
But even as the aid arrives, the donors are well aware that the largess could well doom the Nukak to a life of dependency, ensuring not only that they never return home but also that they never learn how to live in their new world.
Millions of young girls from poor families have found jobs in this industry, helping them to break out of a life of dependency and grinding poverty.
But on Wednesday the prime minister defended the changes as a "moral mission" to return people to work from a life of dependency on the state.
Commerce changes the focus of individuals' vision; manufacturing permits, while encouraging, the indulgence of private gratifications; and a life cut off from the soil is, to that extent, a life of increased dependency on the wills of other men.
More government handouts, a life of government dependencies, indoctrinating our children, a left wing social agenda, a leading from behind.
But this temperament reflects a life of immobility and dependency.
That Raffles "saves" Bunny by roping him into a life of crime and dependency shows the slippery ethics of the man.
Conversely, an encounter with a very dangerous disease liberated the pitiful young Dr. Camille from a life of loneliness and dependency.
