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Example sentences for "dependent upon"

  • But this regards the Creator as dependent upon, and in bondage to, his own world.

  • Every being is dependent upon whomsoever or whatsoever he makes his ultimate end.

  • Thus, Todd[18] says that the proximate cause of the disease is dependent upon a morbid condition of the intestinal mucous follicles.

  • The most important alterations are those dependent upon obstruction of the orifices of the stomach.

  • There is no other answer but that the mind makes no such reference and is dependent upon no kind of coordinate system in any of its operations a priori.

  • This contrast arises because of the attempt to consider thought as an independent somewhat in general which nevertheless, in our experience, is dependent upon a raw material of mere impressions given to it.

  • Although periods of incubation are essential for every specific habit, practically every act of skill is dependent upon a number of simpler habits.

  • We get most out of those experiences secured when we are feeling the most vigorous, whether the vigor be dependent upon age, rest, or general health.

  • Self-preservation is the first law; where life and personal liberty are dependent upon industry, idleness will not be found.

  • On the ordinary view objects are something outside the mind, in the sense of independent of it, and the ideas, which must conform to objects, are something within the mind, in the sense of dependent upon it.

  • Like the power of volition, the activity of the moral sense is dependent upon a certain functional perfection in the brain.

  • That this capacity is dependent upon a special mobility of the atoms of the brain, is shown by the speedy cessation of intelligence which follows great reduction of temperature, as in hibernation, or during exposure to severe frost.

  • Our present question is whether the world, as it is, and just because it is as it is, can be conceived of as dependent upon God.

  • It goes without saying that the theory of life is dependent upon, and in a large measure consists of physico-chemical interpretations, investigations, and methods.

  • Order and strict obedience to law, far from being excluded, are required by faith in God, are indeed a direct and inevitable preliminary to thinking of the world as dependent upon God.

  • As the idea of infinite power, of supreme liberty of action became inseparable from the conception of God, God was deprived of every excuse, for the Absolute is dependent upon nothing.

  • Divine nearness is dependent upon attainment to the knowledge of God, upon severance from all else save God.

  • Nearness to God is dependent upon purity of the heart and exhilaration of the spirit through the glad tidings of the Kingdom.

  • The multitude engaged in the traffic or dependent upon it for favors, can be relied upon to cast their votes as a unit for men who will guarantee protection.

  • But Kant ascribes the objects themselves to thought, in order to make experience and the objective world dependent upon understanding, yet without allowing understanding to be a faculty of perception.

  • The nature of the will, on the contrary, is dependent upon no organ, and can be prognosticated from none.

  • He had ceased to be dependent upon anybody; he lived upon his own earnings; he was in the full bloom of health and youth; and the horizon before him, even though clouded, wore all the colors of the rainbow.

  • Malinche has no stores; he is dependent upon me for to-morrow's bread.

  • I told them our condition; how we are enclosed in the city, dependent upon an inconstant king for bread, without hope of succor, without a road of retreat.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alcoholic liquors; blacksmith shop; come closer; dependent areas; dependent clause; dependent territory; dependent upon; dried fruits; few days after the; fine paper; haired woman; laid aside; make more; mortal enemy; open mind; perfect heart; pleasant voice; rain gauge; readily distinguished; requesting information; said vnto; selling goods; westerly wind; when used; where applicable