Commands made by finite individuals are not reliable, because the validity of what they say depends upon the presumption that the persons concerned are free from those defects that render one's words dependable.
New studies have found that people tidy up more thoroughly when there's a faint tang of cleaning liquid in the air; they become more competitive if there's a briefcase in sight, or more cooperative if they glimpse words like "dependable" and "support" — all without being aware of the change, or what prompted it.
If you plan to write, you probably can start with a reasonably dependable PC with a word processor and printer, which is a modest investment.
(The effect could be created easily — for example, by asking respondents to describe their cars using personality words such as "dependable").
Asked to explain the enduringly strong television market for ancient-Egyptian material, Quilici said that it was powered by the strangeness of mummies, by dreams of adventure, and (in so many words) by a dependable schedule of domestic flights.
"I'll tell you this afternoon, for any of these folks trying to stand between us and affordable, reliable, dependable energy, we have four words for them: over our dead bodies".
The actress, curiously for someone who by her own admission is not a big reader, has an acute and dependable sensibility when it comes to words.
Think of Volvo and words such as "substantial" and "dependable" and "sturdy" come to mind, synonyms essentially for "weighty".
In other words, a rock-solid, corporate-dependable, e-mail-centric heart still beats inside these flashier, catchier BlackBerry models.
If "investment" means spending cash in the hope of making a profit on the basis of careful calculation, using objective data and dependable measuring instruments, then investment is the wrong word.
