So long, dependence on foreign oil cartels.
Ford is introducing a series of passenger cars that it hopes will ease its long dependence on pickup trucks and S.U.V.'s for profits.
They say the potential windfall — hundreds of millions of dollars — will rescue their communities from their long dependence on welfare and state subsidies.
Ethiopia's long dependence on these sources has contributed to the depletion of its trees and to the erosion of its soil.
The Bush Administration, distracted by the war in Iraq, and conditioned by its long dependence on Pakistan's Army, outsourced its Pakistan policy to Musharraf and bankrolled his narrow, increasingly self-defeating strategies.
In 1443, in the reign of King Sejong, a committee of court scholars invented and made public, for the first time, a Korean phonetic alphabet and script called Hangul, ending the country's long dependence on Chinese as a written language.
It was only a few years ago that some economists were arguing that Europe was "decoupling" from its long dependence on trade with the United States, but German carmakers proved otherwise.
It was only a few years ago that some economists were arguing that Europe was "decoupling" from its long dependence on trade with the United States and predicting that the Continent's future lay with the so-called tiger economies of Asia.
An increasing interest is visible in the last decade in modeling long dependence phenomena in the fields of dynamical system, economics, hydrology, telecommunication network by using fractional Brownian motion (fBm for short).
Given the youthfulness of the Saudi population -- 70% of its citizens are under 30 -- and its long dependence on government handouts, such moves could, in the view of many analysts, lead to widespread civil unrest.
