Sentence examples for stopped depending on from inspiring English sources

"The approval of projects stopped depending on their quality but rather on connections and side payments," he said.

Perhaps by the time technology stopped depending on art to prepare its way, the utilitarian principles of the industrial revolution had so permeated society that aesthetics fell into second place.

That may prove true this time around, too — ticket sales have been particularly robust in recent weeks — but studio prosperity stopped depending on box-office results a long time ago.

I was 25 years old and had never held a job, never strayed far from my mother's protection, never stopped depending on her for feeding money, pocket money, any money.

Most banks and trading floors stopped depending on official bond ratings ages ago, even though all the ratings firms retain excellent records on corporate and municipal bonds (in fact, anything that is not mortgage-related).

Its economy, unlike Zimbabwe's, long ago stopped depending on agriculture, which accounts for only 3.4% of GDP and provides only a tenth of South Africa's people with a living.

He recently said that his team had to stop depending on luck.

Apple felt that it was time to stop depending on its licensing deal with Google and other mapping companies.

DETROIT — General Motors, which has struggled to stop depending on big discounts to draw in customers, is pulling the sale banners out again.

But, as Helgesen told me, "As batteries get better, it's going to be a lot more realistic for people to stop depending on their utility".

After their last mainstream show, La Signora è da Buttare (The Lady is for Throwing Out, 1967), the time came for them to stop depending on the convenience of bourgeois theatre.