Sentence examples for dependents less from inspiring English sources

By the early 5th century, their wealth seems to have been, individually, much less than the resources at the disposal of their Western counterparts; their estates were far more scattered and their rural dependents less numerous.

Reduced to consumer units, we become more dependent, less courageous, easier to manipulate.

The time frame for the deployment of the force is now dependent less on politics than on logistics: getting Kabul International Airport running properly so it can receive military flights, and, officials hope, civilian flights as well.

"I think helplessness would make someone more dependent, less defiant and more compliant," Dr. Seligman said, "but I do not think it would lead reliably to more truth-telling".

Active-duty military personnel and their dependents comprise less than 1percentt of the U.S. population, according to the Defense Department.

For both genders, those who had dependents were less likely to report high occupational sitting times.

Patients who are transfusion-dependent are less likely to respond than patients who are transfusion-independent.

She has lost skills, not gained them, she has become more dependent, not less.

A Syria dependent on Turkey may become less dependent on Iran economically.

But the finance ministry says growth of approximately 10% – driven also by infrastructure spending and a construction boom – will not be affected this time because agriculture is now less dependent on rain, and the economy is less dependent on agriculture.

"The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness.