Sentence examples for it depended for from inspiring English sources

It depended for its food and reproduction on shallow water, so it is not, as the movie makers would like us to believe, lurking unseen in the abyss.

In future centuries, when Europe was repeatedly forbidden by papal decree to do business with Muslim powers, Venice went right ahead, and got away with it, staying in touch with the larger world on which it depended for economic survival (it had no natural resources) and in which it took delight.

It depended for decades on tankers full of oil delivered at subsidized "friendship prices" by China and Russia, but both its patrons began charging market prices in the early 1990's, and North Korea has yet to recover from the blow.

Jerome, which was legally separate from United Verde and supported many independent businesses, did not meet the definition of a company town even though it depended for decades largely on this one company.

Instead it depends for its financial survival on the success of its temporary exhibitions and private donations.

It depends for its benefits not on competitive advantage, but on comparative advantage, a crucial distinction.

Much of it depends for its effect on a disparity between the music's inner pulse and its actual speed.

As a line of attack, it depends for its effectiveness on public ignorance of how Congress actually works.

A post-first world war elegy for lives and loves lost rendered in saturated symbolic strokes of high melodrama, it depends for its hefty emotional effect on equally substantial suspension of disbelief.

It depends for its survival on the backing of Berlusconi who is a defendant in four trials in which he claims his indictments were arranged by politically motivated, crypto-Marxist prosecutors.

The book is more an act of mediumship than a work of biography, and it depends for its success on the fineness of Wroe's intuition and the intensity of her identification with her subject.