Hence, a speaker's mental contents, such as the meanings associated with the words she uses, depend on something external to her, namely the uses and the standards of use of the linguistic community she belongs to.
Or perhaps it is more realistic to accept that security is fragile, that it can depend on something as unpredictable as the judgment of a councilman who decides to wave a political rival through security lines?
"As math has become more about talking, arguing and writing, it's beginning to require these kinds of cultural resources that depend on something besides school," said Deborah L. Ball, dean of the school of education at the University of Michigan.
See, phones depend on something called the IMEI to know if you're using another network's SIM card and account.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The future of Gov. Mark Sanford's political career after his secret trip to Argentina and admission of an extramarital affair may now depend on something more complicated than even the human heart: the wild and woolly politics of South Carolina.
That is part of what can be so worrying about the unfamiliar horse: that one's success at an event one has trained for so diligently can depend on something so arbitrary as a drawing from a bowl.
Public restraint may depend on something else, too.
"We also depend on something of this weight - it is 2,100kg - [staying] there in the grounds.
