The 60,000 American troops who served in the regular army did most of the fighting against the British, while few of the nearly 460,000 American militiamen who were under arms saw battle at all, and those who did proved undependable.
While military operations continued inconclusively, and because Tatar support proved undependable at crucial moments, Khmelnytsky began to search for other allies.
The Chelif plain receives only moderate, undependable rainfall (average, 16 inches [400 mm] annually), and evaporation is intense.
He might reasonably argue that he is some distance behind Martin Skrtel (whose selection at Molineux maintained his status as Liverpool's only ever-present outfield player in the league this season) on the list of most undependable defenders.
The people's mind is as undependable as an infant's.
These devices were undependable, lacked sufficient sensitivity, and required constant adjustment of the whisker-to-crystal contact to produce the desired result.
By then, however, Navarro's heroin addiction had made him undependable; in his last year, as he grew progressively more ill from tuberculosis, he performed less often.
/ And so you should follow the Undependable Global Positioning System, all of its manifold caprices, as a sign of your willingness to understand.
/ The Undependable Global Positioning System does not believe in God, because it believes in satellites and in particle physics and entrepreneurship.
/ The Undependable Global Positioning System is not responsible for how you operate the Undependable Global Positioning System, nor is it responsible for your regret.
In this version of the Undependable Global Positioning System, you are blindfolded, carried away from your place of business by armed foreign nationals or unemployed actors, who then remove you to an undisclosed location, where you are threatened for days.
