Sentence examples for depends on a string from inspiring English sources

The success of science depends on a string of failures, and no one can work at a laboratory bench with his hands shackled behind him".

It is possible that an agreement may be reached on a minimalist treaty, but it depends on a string of heroic assumptions: that Mr Sarkozy wins the French presidency; that the Poles can be bullied into accepting institutional change; that some way can be found to buy off Britain; and that almost everybody can avoid referendums.

I say "resident" in the sense that my wife and I live here, lease an apartment and have bought a sofa and that our son was born in the city — though legally, as a foreign journalist without a certified permanent bureau, I depend on a string of temporary visas.

"It depends on a lot of things.

Much depends on a nominee's qualifications.

In Djibouti the port is everything.No country depends more on a string of jetties than this former French territory on the Red Sea.

Democracy depends on an informed electorate.

But the testing of string theory depends on relations between strings and us.

The cost depends on how much string you sign up for.

The cell cycle arrest of His C mutant cells depends on string.

The way these molecules work depends on how the strings fold, but calculating the folding is, as the Foldit researchers put it, "one of the pre-eminent challenges of biology".