If the heartland is to seriously reduce its dependence on coal and oil, Ms. Jackson and others decided, the issues must be separated.
We are taking the idea of reducing our dependence on oil far more seriously.
The economy is, as the leaders acknowledge, seriously unbalanced, with excessive dependence on investment in property construction, infrastructure and exports.
Within our philosophy and within our culture, we cannot take seriously our love and dependence on animals without turning them into medicine and making ourselves sick.
Ge Zhaoqiang, a senior researcher at China Merchants Bank, gave warning in May that China's economy had become "seriously distorted" by prolonged dependence on high levels of investment.
Rather than think seriously about our endless dependence on oil, the G.O.P. has focused its energies on making "climate change" a four-letter word and labeling any Democrat who supports legislation that would in any way raise energy prices to diminish our dependence on oil as a "carbon taxer".
(text at www.WeCanSolveIt.org) Our accountability: as Barack Obama told Rolling Stone: "If I haven't gotten combat troops out of Iraq, passed universal health care and created a new energy policy that speaks to our dependence on foreign oil and deals seriously with global warming, then we've missed the boat.
And is it even beginning to think seriously about lessening our debilitating dependence on Middle Eastern oil?
The recent nuclear accident in Japan seriously calls into question increased dependence on nuclear energy and renewable energy sources, in the majority, have low net yields and are unevenly distributed worldwide.
When comparing gene content among species, especially when using draft genome assemblies, dependence on preliminary gene prediction sets can be seriously misleading.
