"From a purely financial planning point of view, one should never rely on the ability to continue to work as we get older," Lodhi said.
Adam Smith — to cite a hero of libertarians who are generally hostile to gun control — believed that the central point about liberal societies is that they rely on trust: they rely on the ability of people to interact with one another without fearing, for example, that the guy sitting across from you is carrying a concealed murder weapon.
To go a step further, you should never have to rely on the ability of leaders to imagine or care about other people".
Should someone buying Google's Class C shares be forced to rely on the ability of Brin and Page to magically convey their talents to the next generation?
The design and manufacture of efficient memory cores, magnetic tapes, and permanent magnets increasingly rely on the ability to create materials having desired magnetic properties.
"Scientists rely on the ability to have frank, sometimes even contentious discussions with each other," Dr. Mann said in an interview Tuesday.
As the Resolution Foundation noted this week, companies that rely on the ability to import low-cost employees from the EU are going to have to rethink their business models.
Furthermore, most modern console and PC titles are released in an incomplete state: publishers can rely on the ability to provide post-release patches and updates because our contemporary machines have broadband internet connections.
Other common detection schemes rely on the ability of X-rays to produce visible fluorescence in crystals (see scintillation counter) and charge separation in semiconductors (see radiation measurement: Semiconductor detectors).
Woodsmen rely on the ability of yellow and paper birch bark to burn even when wet. Birches were among the first trees to become established after the glaciers receded.
More and more multimedia applications rely on the ability of networks to provide multicast communications.
