Sentence examples for dependent on the world from inspiring English sources

As a global sport dependent on the world's largest bodies of water, and one that happens to be incredibly sexy in its pursuit of living life via life and death thrills, surfing is uniquely positioned to get everyone from lay persons to law-makers enthused about racing headlong into the rush of tackling the environmental crisis.

For one thing, Parthia was economically self-sufficient and did not depend on Rome, whereas the petrostate Russia is, to a great extent, dependent on the world economy, which is -- so far -- largely controlled by American empire.

Cities are heavily dependent on the world beyond their limits.

In 2012 it was dependent on the world market for two-thirds of its consumption.

But the future survival of the reefs would be dependent on the world keeping to the limits on carbon agreed in Paris.

They are not so far apart on the scale and pace of deficit reduction, which, as the failed plans since 2010 show, is in any event dependent on the world economy.

As the company's production declined, it became increasingly dependent on the outside world, depending on foreign companies to pump its oil and even on the United States for the crude oil used in refining.

Bringing such cheap and simple, yet reliable, diagnostic devices to the disease-ridden parts of the developing world, makes local doctors less dependent on the developed world's pharmaceutical-industrial complex.

All these dates are dependent on what the world does about its growing emissions of greenhouse gases that mainly come from burning fossil fuels, making cement and clearing land and forests.

The stage is now set for a public debate and a community choice as to whether the options are really so scarce that South Australia's and Australia's best future economic chance is dependent on hosting the world's worst environmental waste.

In particular, judgments of parsimony become dependent on how the world is sliced up into kinds.