6 sentences with 'dependence'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dependence and other words derived from it.
• « The fact is that the physical and psychological dependence on drugs exacerbates the harms of drug use. »
• « The nobles of Versailles were reminded of two things at once: their dependence and deference to the king, but also their own dignity and power as those entitled to be close to the king. »
• « Watt, in turn, personally invented the term "horsepower" to explain to potential customers what his engine could do. Almost everything that moved could now be tied to coal power rather than muscle power, and so began the vast and dramatic shift towards the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels. »
• « This drug produces euphoria, talkativeness, depersonalisation and a feeling of absolute dependence on the sacred. »
• « The British government knew that the colonists might object to the Stamp Act's expansion of parliamentary power, but Parliament believed that the colonies' relationship to the Empire was one of dependence, not equality. »
• « By the 1830s there were more than a thousand of these vessels, radically changing water transport by ending its dependence on wind. »