The kind of powerful conviction that I am referring to fills one's heart with a love that is not dependent on external circumstances for its fullness.
Is silence dependent on external conditions?
Second, we are more than ever dependent on external and unreliable energy suppliers.
Eastern European countries talking to the fund are disproportionately dependent on external financing and foreign banks.
"They are Iraqi nationalists, and now that they're in power, they're less dependent on external support than they were as exiled opposition groups," he said.
Rather, Buddhism says that selves are so changeable and dependent on external circumstances that the idea of a fixed self is an illusion: all is change.
"While happiness is often seen as being dependent on external circumstances, His Holiness and the Archbishop believe that joy comes from an internal state of being.
Celebrities are attracted to Kabbalah, he says, because of their "false sense of fulfilment which is very dependent on external energy.
"Singapore, being dependent on external demand, is held for ransom," said Joseph Tan, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.
Since independence, Benin's regular and developmental budgets have been dependent on external support, primarily from France and international organizations.
Policymakers in economies heavily dependent on external capital can also be tempted to keep interest rates high as they pander to the demands of global investors for low, stable inflation.
