Eventually, the individuals who were dependents of the king were released from their state of dependency, and became the first Plebeians.
To be unable to afford one is to remain in a state of dependency.
All human beings begin in a state of dependency and the human family is the indispensable foundation for this, with unconditional family love mirroring the love of God.
It is the period that most people currently reach by their 80s, when their capabilities decline and they return increasingly to a childlike state of dependency.
The world economy will benefit enormously from the contributions of those who are able to move from a state of dependency to full participation.
A Martian listening to Radio 4 today would assume that the females on planet Earth were a genus of raped, harassed, child-oppressed, drug-addicted, underpaid and joyless victims, living in a perpetual state of dependency and bowel cancer.
Perpetually aware of the public eye upon him, the premier is reduced by illness to a state of dependency which forces him to close his eyes to the political storm outside and contemplate instead his "secret, inner life".
The impulse to confess is human, and in a state of dependency and abjection, it is not implausible that we might say what we know our listeners want to hear.
Matricide is usually committed by overprotected boys — by a son who wishes, as one study puts it, "with his desperate act, to free himself from his state of dependency on her, a dependency that he believes has not allowed him to grow up".
In the end, I reached such a low with the drug that I knew I had to stop altogether, that I couldn't go on living in a state of dependency.' This was a period of intense self-questioning for Sylvian.
