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Example sentences for "depends upon"

  • The enjoyment derived from country balls depends upon a variety of circumstances, which do not influence in a like degree the ball-going world of London.

  • It depends upon whom a lady is introduced to, or upon who is introduced to her, whether she should or should not shake hands.

  • The man who trusts to experience does not know what he depends upon, since it changes from person to person, from day to day, to say nothing of from country to country.

  • It depends upon a unity of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting a multitude of disconnected details.

  • Industry that is "empirically" controlled forbids constructive applications of intelligence; it depends upon following in an imitative slavish manner the models set in the past.

  • The eugenic support of marriage, therefore, depends upon a belief in the family, and that form of marriage will commend itself which provides the best form of family.

  • It depends upon an abysmal ignorance of the necessary and permanent relations which subsist between mind and body.

  • If it depends upon you, child, I don't think money has any value for you whatever.

  • Did you never take notice that a woman's happiness, and consequently the happiness of marriage, depends upon a woman's having her own way in all social matters?

  • Felicity in the possession of these, the epigrammatist might have added, depends upon content in the one and full appreciation of the other.

  • Manu himself has said that victory depends upon intelligence.

  • The friendship between two uterine brothers, the love between husband and wife, depends upon interest.

  • Bishop Berkeley maintains a contrary opinion, and thinks that our seeing objects single with both eyes, as well as our seeing them erect, by inverted images, depends upon custom.

  • In endeavouring to remove this general debility, we must recollect, that it is of the indirect kind, or depends upon an exhausted state of the excitability; our great object therefore, is to allow the excitability to accumulate.

  • In general, the thickness of the gastric walls in gastrectasia {600} depends upon that of the muscular coat.

  • The strength of a current of electricity is measured also by the work that it can do, and it depends upon its rate of flow at the point measured.

  • The action of the condenser, as clearly shown, depends upon induction.

  • The work that the water can do depends upon its rate of flow, and may be used to measure the strength of the current.

  • Significant progress, progress which is more than technical, depends upon ability to foresee new and different results and to arrange conditions for their effectuation.

  • Thus the object of knowledge is practical in the sense that it depends upon a specific kind of practice for its existence--for its existence as an object of knowledge.

  • What a young man is at college, depends upon what he was at school; and what he is at school, depends upon what he was before he went to school.

  • The difference between these two classes, depends upon this--the one has more judgment, and more the habit of using it, than the other.

  • The shortening of the period of reproduction, and the duration of life to the greatest extent which is possible, depends upon a number of co-operating circumstances, which it is impossible to enumerate completely.

  • For the clearness of the consciousness of the external world, the objectivity of the perception, depends upon it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appropriation bill; black crape; but here; cannot afford; depends upon; discussed here; fine time; gray color; greater amount; her presence; home here; intellectual property; little valley; much wealth; regular troops; secular canons; thin voice; think much; where very; white birch; widely known; zygomatic breadth