Sentence examples for it counted on from inspiring English sources
When government failed to restrain its fringe elements, it counted on the court to do its job.
Meanwhile, Honda continued its roll in the first quarter, announcing a 9% jump in revenue to $26 billion, even as profit slipped 20% from last year due to the elimination of a pension reimbursement from the Japanese government that it counted on its books in 2006.
Glass cases displaying ethnographic objects from India and Britain's African and Oceanic colonies as well as from Japan and South America also make the point that while Britain was concerned with exporting its new industrial goods, it counted on the world to provide it with raw materials.
The measures are being proposed this week by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, officials said, as he is forced to face a deeper round of cuts in service because it seems increasingly clear that the city will not receive all the state and federal aid it counted on to close its $4.7 billion budget gap.
So it counted on people censoring themselves.
It counted on people's normal perception of things.
However, it counts on donations.
It was what I counted on.
But it cannot be counted on.
But no one should count on it.
