• Rather, they are party loyalists who can be depended on to automatically vote for the candidate of their party.

    CNN: Robert Novak: Setting the electoral record straight

  • "He was known as a warrior, the invincible patriarch who could be depended on to play through his injuries, " the suit said.

    CNN: January 23, 2013 -- Updated 2220 GMT (0620 HKT)

  • But, with few heavy arms or armoured vehicles, and still heavily dependent on their American advisers, these troops could not be depended on to fight the insurgents unaided.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • Just as poor, uneducated single mothers in Lod can be depended on to blame their troubles on an insensitive government, so groups of ultra-Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh, whose own communities decry them, can be trusted to treat nonreligious women poorly.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Is Israeli society unraveling?

  • He explained there was no standard way for a model to be recalled as it depended on what kind of product had been found faulty.

    BBC: Cooker defect leads to eight deaths

  • He claims to be a reformer, and has always depended on his personal bond with the voters to impose change on his own, reluctant party, which knows it cannot do without him.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • But where previous subsidy depended on nine productions, there will now be only five, though they will tour longer.

    ECONOMIST: Repertory theatre in Britain

  • The global importance of the event was no longer the main criterion for sensational treatment: it all depended on whether a sufficiently irresistible headline could be teased out of what might be a run-of-the-mill story.

    ECONOMIST: Behind the headlines

  • If your employment status depended on the financial viability of the institution what would be your choice?

    FORBES: Maryland and Rutgers Move to Big Ten: Savvy Realignment or Priorities Misalignment.

  • If I were President Bush, though, and my political life depended on Iraq being a success, I would already be worrying.

    CNN: Too Soon to Tell

  • The signal thus sent could not have been clearer, either to Kashkari's colleagues in government or those in the financial sector: At a moment when the very viability of major banks and investing institutions critically depended on this individual's favor, it would be advisable to embrace Shariah-Compliant Finance.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Courting Shariah

  • Her husband, Milton Brothers, was still in medical school and Brothers had just given up her teaching positions at Hunter College and Columbia University to be home with her newborn, firmly believing a child's development depended on it.

    WSJ: Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at 85

  • Wouldn't it be easier for the Scottish Executive to toughen Scotland's building regulations so that completion certificates depended on passing air tightness tests?

    BBC: The ?1,000-a-year heating bill is here.

  • And we must be a people of prayer, a people who pray as if the strength of our nation depended on it -- because it does.

    CNN: AllPolitics - State Of The Union Response Transcript, 1997

  • He claimed that the first votes were matters of conscience on which varieties of opinion should be tolerated, and praised Republicans for backing the second, on which American military operations and lives depended.

    ECONOMIST: Out of the dark, Republican glimmers

  • P. lawmakers were united behind Bush, knowing that their own fortunes depended on having a Republican President to help get anything done, many Democrats privately thought they would be better off if Gore lost.

    CNN: Bush's Contested Lead

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