It was surely too big to ever move, and yet the fate of the nation seemed to depend on its doing so.
For nearly seven years, the United States has so dominated the world economy that other nations have come to depend, more than ever, on constantly rising demand from the United States for products of all kinds.
While the shutdown directly affects only American researchers, scientists from other nations have come to depend on the robust transportation and logistics system developed by the United States, said Alexander Kumar, a British scientist.
The health of a nation could be said to depend upon the public health expertise of its scientists.
Because distribution rights vary from nation to nation, depending on the deal a music publisher strikes with an artist, Universal was unable to offer digital downloads of its music without a mechanism to block downloads to people in certain countries.
In regard to the travel grants, which many poorer nations depend on to send athletes to a Games, Andrada said there was still "plenty of time to make sure they get paid and athletes can get here and prepare to compete".
Unlike other advanced industrial nations -- the European Union and Japan are running surpluses -- the United States is in a position more familiar to developing nations, depending on foreigners to service the debt from its trade imbalance.
But many Asian nations now depend heavily on selling to China, especially after its overall imports jumped 40percentt last year.
We have built our history based on diplomacy, and many nations depend upon us to be true to our word.
The ICC depends on member nations to enforce arrest warrants.
