Sentence examples for rely but from inspiring English sources

There was a core upon whom he could rely but too many others were prone to "disappear".

Perhaps the most significant methodological advance to be found in the MMPI was the attempt on the part of its developers to measure tendencies to respond, rather than actual behaviour, and to rely but little on assumptions of face validity.

The fate of health-care reform will rest not with the skill of the lawyers who will argue it — or in the words of the cases on which they will rely — but on the preferences of the nine Justices who will decide the case.

But it's clear that urban mobility badly needs to be rethought for an age of commuters every bit as networked as the vehicles and infrastructures on which they rely, but who retain expectations of personal mobility entrained by a century of private car ownership.

(Many people in Finland have a summer cottage in the countryside, and rely on a car to get to it). But it's clear that urban mobility badly needs to be rethought for an age of commuters every bit as networked as the vehicles and infrastructures on which they rely, but who retain expectations of personal mobility entrained by a century of private car ownership.

Moreover, with a small change in our theories or background beliefs, or just in our understanding of the conditions for measurement, we might change the tests on which we rely, but often without changing the meaning of the sentences whose truth we might be trying to test (which, as Putnam 1965 [1975] pointed out, is precisely what practicing scientists regularly do).

Section 530 relief would seem to be available only if you established you had in fact relied, but when?

Some women have nothing to rely on but advice from friends and family.

The choice between paths will not rely solely, but rather mostly, on our president.

"Programs that Americans rely on but Republicans have been trying to slash for years," Slaughter said.

"Until now, LGBT families and their lawyers had nothing to rely on but an oral promise.