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Discover LudwigThe word "dependence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something. For example, "The country's economy is in a state of dependence on foreign investments."
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As Pressley rightly acknowledges, the league is smothered by its dependance on a television deal which depends on four Old Firm matches every season.
Still worse than mere dependance, however, is a culture that depends on bingeing.
The last, deregulating American oil and gas development (including granting immediate approval for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline) sounds more reasonable, which is why it's actually the worst of the lot.Mr Paul is right that dependance on Russian gas plays a major role in Europe's hesitation to impose sanctions against Mr Putin.
And the dependance of outcomes on teamwork makes contribution harder to quantify.Even still, this misses a major point: from the perspective of the team owner, winning is not everything; revenue matters to.
This week public health experts raised the alarm about chemsex, writing in an editorial in the BMJ that psychological and physiological dependance on the drugs could become permanent.
Now add drugs that can cause dependance to the mix and the situation becomes altogether different.
Given the way the US economy and public finances have been managed in recent decades – kept afloat by cheap Asian goods and borrowed Asian savings – the greater shame is Washington's, whose similar dependance is both tragic and a scandal.
It tells of the ways in which intimacy and suspicion intersect, eavesdropping and emotional dependance fester and infect.
London's i-Tree results will be published this autumn, and will prove that the capital's trees are a multimillion-pound piece of infrastructure, but they will also show that the city has a problem – its dependance on London plane trees.
For Balkan, creating a safe, welcoming community on an app would have to start from an entirely different business model such as paying outright for apps or finding a new way to fund them – anything that prevents a dependance on users trading their data.
Instead the captain preferred to echo Arthur's assessment of England and their dependance on the form of Cook and Joe Root.
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