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Example sentences for "reliance"

Lexicographically close words:
relevancy; relevant; reliability; reliable; reliably; reliant; relic; relick; relicks; relics
  1. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

  2. There also many kings preferred a diplomatic worldliness to reliance on their true source of strength.

  3. Nana Furnuwees has, owing to his reliance upon a solemn guarantee given for his safe return, been seized when making a ceremonial visit to Scindia.

  4. They are evidently expecting a surprise; and I am afraid that, if we are attacked, we shall not be able to place much reliance on them.

  5. He seemed cynical and callous; and it was probably his haughty self-reliance which prevented him from sufficiently deferring to the ordinary moralities of mankind.

  6. Reliance on the power of freedom was, he used to say, one of the broadest of all the lessons he had learned from history.

  7. We moderns of the West place our reliance upon institutions; we go forward upon ideas.

  8. Ahaz made his final resolution of reliance on Assyria.

  9. Let trust in God be his shield, and reliance on God his provision, and the fear of God his raiment.

  10. The result has shewn how safe is this reliance upon the patriotic temper and enlightened discernment of the people.

  11. Nor will the plan be submitted in any overweening confidence in the sufficiency of my own judgment, but with much greater reliance on the wisdom and patriotism of Congress.

  12. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination.

  13. With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

  14. Yet Communist tactics against the free nations have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence and the threat of violence to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity.

  15. I believe that its enactment into law would be a very long step toward providing this Nation with a first line of citizen soldiery, upon which its main reliance must depend in case of any national emergency.

  16. That altogether too much reliance may be placed upon Government inspection of laboratories seems unquestionable.

  17. The mistake upon which he has dwelt, was due to reliance upon the translation of another man.

  18. We need to have the question settled with an accuracy upon which as much reliance may be placed as upon the oath of the cashier of a bank.

  19. The worst is, that they will fall the most severely on her: and her implicit reliance on me was her only error.

  20. It was impossible for him as yet to marry, and he was content to wait without a promise, since that could not add to his entire reliance on Laura.

  21. But I meant, that you have to forgive the advantage I took of your reliance on me to lead you into error, when you were too young to know what it amounted to.

  22. At present it must suffice to say that Job is now made to come very near his final discovery that complete reliance upon Eloah is not simply the fate but the privilege of man.

  23. The condition of Russia soon became worse than that of France and Italy, and even before the October revolution, Russia was able to put very little reliance upon revenues from war taxation.

  24. The 55th, another corps on which much reliance was placed, was also put at the head of another column.

  25. I compare it to an earthquake: we lose all our reliance on the solidity of the world.

  26. Such a faith, in which the heart places its reliance on God alone, is enjoined by God in the first commandment, where he says, I am the Lord thy God.

  27. I place no reliance on you; I must first have some guarantee and assurance.

  28. She had a feeling that there was something immutably strong and sure about this man--a calm, steadfast self-reliance to which one could unhesitatingly trust.

  29. They cultivate the habit of prudent self-reliance amongst the people, and are consequently worthy of every encouragement.

  30. Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and eat his own sweet bread, and to learn and labour truly to get his own living, and carefully to save and expend the good things committed to his trust.

  31. Wherever a Bank is opened and deposits received, self-reliance will to some extent be aroused, and, with many, a nobler life will be begun.

  32. If you do not, if you acquiesce and succumb, virtue will have gone from you, and your self-reliance will have received a fatal shock.

  33. At one period he reposed with entire confidence on the conviction that popular rights and public liberty were effectually secured by the Constitution of the United States, but this hopeful reliance failed him as early as 1824.

  34. His reliance was upon logic; not upon rhetoric; and even his illustrations were drawn from things practical rather than ideal.

  35. I desired you not to have too absolute a reliance upon him.

  36. You tell me," said he, "that I can have no reliance on James; why did not you tell me so before?

  37. They did not wait until they opened the journal to find out what they thought about some important subject, but, unaided, they wrought out their own opinions, and through self-reliance grew great.

  38. The youth who will rule to-morrow is the youth who to-day is storing up resources of knowledge and wisdom, of self-reliance and courage.

  39. Mr Jay seized this opportunity of assuring him of his full reliance on the King's justice and honor, and his particular and entire confidence in his Excellency, asserting to him that all his letters to Congress breathed these sentiments.

  40. The tories have little reliance upon the effect of the recommendations of Congress; great numbers of them have sailed, and are daily sailing for Nova Scotia.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reliance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abettor; acceptation; acquiescence; admirer; advocate; aid; angel; anticipation; apologist; apprehension; aspiration; assumption; assurance; backer; backing; belief; buff; carriage; carrying; certainty; champion; confidence; contemplation; conviction; credence; credible; credit; defender; dependence; desire; endorser; expectation; exponent; faith; fan; hope; imminence; lover; mainstay; maintenance; partisan; patron; presumption; probability; promise; promoter; prospect; protagonist; reception; reliance; second; seconder; sectary; security; sponsor; stalwart; standby; stock; store; subsidy; subvention; support; supporter; sureness; surety; sustainer; sustaining; sustenance; sympathizer; thought; trust; upholder; upkeep; votary