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How to use the word reliant in a Sentence?

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Nothing really happened on the trip, except I noticed she was perfect : cheerful, self reliant, capable, fearless.

Bo Knapp Both Bo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Willow presents an opportunity to continue that investment in the communities, without that money and revenue stream, we’re reliant on the state and the feds.

Nagruk Harcharek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And I don’t accept the premise that this has anything to do with the conduct of any of the Democratic members. This is merely the weakness of Kevin McCarthy’s speakership, that he’s so reliant on these extreme members.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

First of all, the nuclear suppliers group would cut off fissile material to South Korea, which is reliant for all of its fissile material on outside suppliers. It could lead to international sanctions.

Bruce Klingner of Heritage Foundation

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Look at what they've done, they've wrecked the economy. They've wrecked our energy dominance where we now need to be reliant on foreign countries. They've opened the border. [Created] foreign policy debacles and seen crime explode.

Steve Scalise

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

First, let me be clear : we should not have to choose between supply and safety, especially when it comes to a product we feed our babies. This product should face the most rigorous standards of safety, to ensure that it is safe to feed our children, the shortage persists because we are overly reliant on one manufacturer to get infant formula back on the shelf.

Rosa DeLauro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When it comes to the gas prices, we're going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it's over we'll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can not and should not ever be reliant on processes that can and will be used against us.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The effects of Lake Powell dipping below Lake Powell critical threshold in spring could reverberate through the states reliant on that water months down the road.

Justin Mankin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a real need for us here on Earth who don't work in the space industry to begin to understand how space debris impacts us every day, many of us don't realize how much of our lives are reliant on services delivered from and through space — GPS services, financial transactions, climate monitoring. Our life on Earth is connected to space and even the smallest debris orbiting the Earth can damage and destroy these critical capabilities for some of the most basic aspects of our day-to-day life.

Steve Wozniak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s a major implosion for [ Caesars ] financially, and the PR is terrible, they hired more staff at their restaurants, put more dealers on their casino tables. You’ve got people with disposable income coming to Las Vegas, and this huge machine is reliant on you showing up.

Scott Roeben

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Washington spending is out of control, with Democrats wanting to add trillions more to our growing debt, inflation is wiping out wage gains, and Democrats want to suspend the debt ceiling without enacting any fiscal controls. I’m happy to co-sponsor Sen. Scott and Sen. Toomey’s Full Faith and Credit Act that ensures the federal government does not default on its debt and would prioritize spending to protect the men and women in our military and those reliant on Social Security, Medicare, and veteran benefits.

Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The ability for those birds to continue to fly in the long term is going to be very challenging, it’s spare-parts reliant, and that flow was cut off.

John Venable

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Furthermore, there are signs of operational challenges still biting, with stock levels reaching another record low and import penetration falling, disruption is being exacerbated by continued labour shortages, with many retailers reliant on younger employees currently awaiting their jab.

Alpesh Paleja

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

President [ Xi Jinping's ] administration has been sending signals for some time that it would be driving toward becoming more self-reliant and less under the control of major trading partners like the The United States.

Doug Guthrie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We know U.S. energy demands are going to continue to go up. World energy demands are going to continue to go up. And my concern is, Joe Biden's [policies are making us less reliant on the U.S.], which means we're going to have to buy more from other places around the world.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I am not inclined to dismiss today’s pricing signals or to be overly reliant on historical relationships and dynamics in judging the outlook for inflation.

Esther George

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Any requirements to the contrary are reliant on the CDC guidance and so must fall within the CDC's update.

Ted Deutch

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

North Korea is going back to its 2017 plan – dual policy of improving its nuclear deterrent and self-reliant economy.

Kang Dong-wan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The broader supply-chain issues have still not been addressed by the Trump administration. We're still reliant on foreign manufacturing and forced to compete in the global market.

Casey Katims

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think it's relatively unlikely that small businesses [ and ] small brands will join the boycott, because they're the ones most reliant on Facebook for access to their customers.

Nicole Perrin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Facebook has an enormous number of advertiser clients, they're definitely pretty reliant on the long tail of small business advertisers.

Nicole Perrin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is scary that you could not just lose one or two teams, but an awful lot of teams if you don't get back racing, the financial model we have in The Liberty Media-owned sport is that we are all so reliant upon the money we receive from the results in the constructors' championship.

Liberty Media-owned

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We'll come out in the end and hopefully everyone will be eating better and gardening more and more self-reliant.

Diane Blazek

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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