If purchasing seeds, pick a brand that seems dependable and pick vegetable strains that seem reliable.
It provides structure, an institution that seems safe and dependable, where there are resolutions and remedies to all of life's varied conflicts.
That said, I think that the other tools of statecraft -- ranging from development aid to people-to-people exchanges, digital diplomacy to media focused on human rights, all of this -- are appropriate and important, even if the results seem less dependable than what some (misguidedly) think can be achieved by sending in troops and tanks. .
This, combined with feral, broad-chested good looks, seemed a dependable recipe for stardom.
And Ms. Eaglen, whose natural gifts are glorious but whose technique never seemed completely dependable, had been giving some shaky performances.
That refuge had seemed reasonably dependable, at least until a week ago, when Lee Bo became the fifth member of a Hong Kong-based publishing house specializing in provocative tomes about Beijing leaders to vanish mysteriously, not on a trip to the mainland but from his own home city, Hong Kong.
Even after training the speech engine a few times, it doesn't seem quite as dependable as when you're actually on the homescreen.
For now, the Broncos seem to have found a dependable bandage in the backfield.
Compared to the astronomical market valuations of a tech unicorn, the returns offered by manufacturers of meat cleavers and potato peelers may seem paltry, but they're dependable and long-term.
Always friendly, invariably dependable, he seemed to be a true asset, his co-workers say.
