Sentences with 'rests'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rests and other words derived from it.
• « Without computers, human civilisation would grind to a screeching halt and the social structures on which it rests would crumble like dynamited masonry. Civilisation would not stop falling until wars, famine and disease brought the population down to a figure low enough to warrant a simple, i.e. non-computerised, world. »
• « Despite this, the basic pillars on which state sovereignty rests, albeit in more subtle ways, are still present: the legal rationalisation of power and the transformation of de facto power into de jure power. »