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Departments and ministries of non-English-speaking countries are lc, eg French ministry of the interior, Iraqi foreign ministry dependant noun; dependent adjective; dependence His dependants were dependent on him for everything depositary person; depository place deprecate express disapproval; depreciate reduce in value.
With one proviso: that it is also the business of his relatives and, especially, his dependants.
Tolstoy's struggle between the habits of luxury and familial love, and his wish to give them up out of principle, was the central drama for his dependants.
According to the Danish constitution, "Any person unable to support himself or his dependants shall, where no other person is responsible for his or their maintenance, be entitled to receive public assistance".
This could be a crucial lifeline for the people I met, like Mohamed Kamara, who was facing a difficult future after losing his wife, child, siblings and job to Ebola and could expect no help from the state in supporting his dependants and rebuilding his life.
Graves remained Mrs Clow for two short years: she and her daughter from a previous marriage soon boomeranged back to Collins, and a bipartite family arrangement continued until the author died in 1889, after which his estate was divided between his dependants.
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In the US, Trump lines up his various dependants as if determined to prove that prolific parenting is entirely compatible with viciousness and folly.
But you can also read the book, more prophetically, as an unsparing portrait of Bellow himself as the successful, self-protective artist-parent warding off the emotional demands of his difficult dependants.
THE scene was worthy of a Puccini opera: the patriarch lying on his death-bed as his heirs and dependants gather to discuss how to save his inheritance.
The same principles applied if the injured party were dead and the claim was being brought on behalf of his estate or dependants.
The England and Wales Cricket Board had told Pietersen his selection was dependant on him confirming publicly that no derogatory texts about his team-mates had been sent to South African players, or if they had been sent, to apologise for them.
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