The durability of the Assad rule has depended not only on coercion and hegemony but also on co-option and the balancing of various interest and communal groups.
Value depended not only on aesthetics, but more importantly on the uses to which objects could be put in the service of devotion.
Mr Delors depended not only on a close Franco-German alliance, but also on the self-confidence of these countries, which are both now in a defensive funk.
In a magnificent folding screen, among the top ranks of 17th-century art, Moronobu makes clear that the pleasures of the bed depended not only on fine clothing and linens, but also on particular rituals.
Such important departments as the information bureau, the letter insisted, had great influence on the public's attitude toward the company, and on that attitude depended not only the railroad's income but also its success in securing favorable legislation.
Gelb's success has depended not only on persuading the social élite who support the Met to permit the opening of their hitherto well-guarded preserve but also on persuading them to enjoy it.
Bacon's hope for a new birth of science depended not only on vastly more numerous and varied experiments but primarily on "an entirely different method, order, and process for advancing experience".
The spread of an idea or taste depended not only on such individuals, but also on "a critical mass of easily influenced people who influence other easy-to-influence people.
Novels and screenplays depended not only on audience familiarity with the happenings of November 1963 and the Warren commission, but also on nagging concerns that the whole story had not been told, that there was something vital missing from the standard account of the assassination.
The success of organizations and agreements such as the EU, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations Free Tradede Area (AFTA) depended not only on geographic proximity but also on increasing economic interdependence, relatively homogenous political structures (e.g., democracy), and shared cultural and political traditions.
Most analysts had bet on only the dollar, the yen and the euro.The choice of currencies (and hence presumably the weights), said Mr Zhou, depended not only on the pattern of China's trade but also on the sources of its foreign direct investment (FDI) and the currency composition of its debt.
