Taken together, Mr. Schulte said, this means Asian consumers, as a whole, will become more important in global terms -- another example of how the region will "decouple" by becoming less dependant on the West.
Ultimately, USAid suggests programmes could create sustainable business models, becoming less dependant on donor funding and build relationships with new corporate partners.
Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, warned us in Congress in 1991 that we were becoming too dependant upon foreign favor to defend the country.
Don't let the locals become dependant on American airpower.
People might become dependant on outsiders, and corruption can become a problem.
However, the distribution of masses appear scale dependant, becoming progressively more even, and less right-skewed, at savanna, Nama-Karoo, and CFK regional scales (g1 = 0.65,−0.1 and 0.15, respectively; Fig. 2), than distributions at the local scale (Fig. 3).
However, body size distribution of southern African insectivorous bats was scale-dependant, becoming progressively more right-skewed and less evenly spaced from local to regional levels.
(According to the National Transfer Accounts pioneered by Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason, 60 is the age at which the average Chinese earns less than he consumes, becoming, in effect, a dependant).But it's interesting that the NBS chose to rejig the definition of working age for this press conference.
