The phrase "a reliance upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing dependence or trust in something or someone.
Example: "The project's success is largely based on a reliance upon the expertise of our consultants."
Alternatives: "a dependence on" or "an reliance on".
Recurrent too is a reliance upon the support of a less charismatic partner who is snubbed as success comes calling: Andrew Garfield's Facebook wingman Eduardo Saverin, and Seth Rogen's tech-savvy Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak.
A reliance upon and, I think, a revved-up momentum for using military clout; I think the gloves will now come off in the Sunni triangle, and I think the fighting will become bloodier in the short and medium term.
Thus, liberation may be seen in the desire of most people to be free to pursue their own goals and life plans which may involve a reliance upon standards and objectives that are solely their own.
It doesn't feel like a transitional work, but it is the effortless appropriation of the stylisation of 18th-century opera, complete with a reliance upon set-piece arias and recitatives, and the use of a classically proportioned orchestra, gives no hint of the plunge into serialism that Stravinsky would make in the following years.
A reliance upon due process of law (which Milton in effect calls for) is the vital concession that the community can be led to make to reason: it provides a safeguard that must be so well established in times of calm and reflection that it is held to firmly, as a tenet of a common political faith, when the community is almost beside itself with passion.
One consequence of those "new ideas" has been less of a reliance upon Messi.
While the concept of a fixed sized circular buffer database is an ideal format for storing time series data elements of the design of rrdtool, (especially the concept of a fixed update schedule and a heavy reliance upon IO) are a poor foundation for a scalable, elastic monitoring tool.
So may be judged the further development, taking place in his reign, of the administrative court hierarchy and an increasing reliance upon a mobile field army, to what was considered the detriment of frontier garrisons.
That is, it is argued that when we look at dichotomies such as natural/artificial, or masculine/feminine, we find in the background an implicit reliance upon a very recent, and arbitrary, understanding of the sexual world as split into two species (Sedgwick, 1990).
The outcome will be a greater reliance upon imported energy, but in a way that China hopes will increase its security, not undermine it.
Thus, every case of just human dominium entails a constant reliance upon grace as the hallmark of its being an instantiation of God's universal dominium.
