And this in a country now virtually dependent on gas and oil supplies from elsewhere; Britain was recently awaiting a gas supply ship from Qatar, after being days away from running out of supplies altogether.
Like many horticulturists, Ms Butterly has become "virtually dependent" on it.
Evan A. Feigenbaum, an Asia-Pacific co-chair on the Romney foreign policy advisory team, said in a November interview with the Council on Foreign Relations that countries in Asia are now so deeply integrated with China that their growth is virtually dependent on Beijing.
Grand viziers who were supposed to represent the sultan's absolute power had virtually become dependent on the palace and the Janissary corps, or provincial forces, with the result that there was a lack of authority and complete disorder in the administration.
LSD and magic mushrooms have no recorded drug-related deaths to their name, are used sparingly by most users, and virtually no one becomes dependent.
Aviation was in its infancy and therefore the logistics of the war were virtually entirely dependent on the railways.
Presently, with virtually every aspect of our lives and daily business becoming connected and dependent on software in one way or another, the potential destructiveness of software bugs has become orders of magnitude more dramatic than it used to be, say, 20 years ago.
Gregory is younger than I am, but he became our leader, particularly after we left the capital and entered the countryside, where we saw no other foreigners and heard virtually no English, and so were dependent on his Korean skills.
Increasing evidence suggests that virtually all parts of the HIV envelope are structurally and functionally dependent on membranes.
And completely not dependent on horror and bloodshed.
