They were dependent on no one.
When Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) and I met privately with Department officials in September 2009, one of them explained they were dependent on investigators to bring them cases (which typified, I believed, their passive approach).
They were dependent on strangers for food.
Mid-sized Italian companies profited from international exports, but they were dependent on outside-generated growth.
They were dependent on his presence and on his talent for political maneuvering.
The single firefighters' families say that they were dependent on their sons, even if not for their livelihoods.
Like the farmers at Haleku, a couple of years ago they were dependent on government food aid just to survive.
The Europeans agreed; their position was somewhat reluctant, but they were dependent on US listening and hadn't a lot of power to object.
In those banks that the government did not own, ministers were in a position to apply "some strong moral persuasion", since they were dependent on government credit guarantees.
Because they were rarely paid in cash, they were dependent on the upper castes for the basics – food, clothing and shelter.
"Morocco knew their demand for electricity was growing at 7% a year and that they were dependent on imports for 97% of that energy," Duarte said.
