6 sentences with 'rely'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rely and other words derived from it.
• « In early times, man had to rely on his own ingenuity to survive. He could feed himself, clothe himself and even protect himself from his enemies by using various elements of nature. »
• « The one factor common to all Greek colonies was that they were rarely far from the sea. They were so closely tied to the idea of a shared Greek civilisation and the need to rely on the sea for trade routes was so strong that the colonists were not generally interested in trying to move inland. »
• « Likewise, the polis came to rely on mercenaries, many of whom (ironically) went on to serve the Persians after the war. »
• « Soldiers were paid in coins captured as booty and entire armies were expected to buy their supplies as they marched rather than rely on heavy baggage trains. »
• « The Germanic peoples themselves had begun as minorities, ruling over former Roman subjects. They tended to inherit the Roman bureaucracy and to rely on its officials and laws to govern their subjects, but they also had their own traditions of Germanic law based on clan membership. »
• « Moreover, because Venice needed a peaceful trading network for its continued prosperity, it was the first power in Europe to rely heavily on formal diplomacy in its relations with neighbouring states. »