Sentence examples for dependence whether from inspiring English sources

Life is a struggle to make the right choices and to achieve liberation from dependence, whether material or psychological.

But, although David Eldridge's moving new play doesn't avoid all the pitfalls, it greatly heightens our understanding of the addictive personality and shows that dependence, whether on drugs or alcohol, is no respecter of class or status.

However, our study is limited to the information in the available data, and we acknowledge the difficulty in operationalizing substance dependence; whether our operationalization of addiction to two or more substances, truly reflects the strength of the addiction phenotype is open to question.

Dependence: Care dependency (whether the participant needed no care, some care or much care) was ascertained through a series of open-ended questions administered to the informant.

We currently do not understand the basis of the temperature dependence, or whether the binding between Rio2 and Crm1 is temperature-dependent in vivo or, for example, whether ribosome export becomes less dependent on Rio2 at high temperatures.

In this way, we address the question of whether interference is best described by the simplifications of ratio or prey dependence, or whether intermediate levels are most typical.

Objective: To determine if the recalled response to the first cigarette is predictive of the development of symptoms of nicotine dependence and whether it is influenced by the type of cigarette smoked.

Context: It has not been determined if a youth's reaction to the first smoking experience is predictive of future nicotine dependence, or whether the impact of the first cigarette can be altered by manipulating levels of tar, nicotine and menthol.

The friction in the boundary lubrication regime is substantially decreased (relative to native hydrophobic PDMS) by the presence of the multilayers, with some dependence on whether fucoidan or chitosan is in the outer layer (5 or 5.5 bilayers) for FV fucoidan.

There was no apparent dependence on whether the PET gantry was OFF or ON, neither in the condition with PET activity high (Fig. 6a) nor low (Fig. 6b).

Diller warns parents to consider their own participation in their adult child's money dependence, questioning whether they are fulfilling a desire to feel needed by their children or remain in control.