To depend example sentences

Those at the bottom of the society have very little to depend upon.Reliability means the users must be able to depend on the information.The poor have to depend on the rich and the powerful for various things.They may wish to serve the people as well, but it is risky to depend entirely on their sense of duty.Although a large section of people suffer from food and nutrition insecurity in India, the worst affected groups are landless people with little or no land to depend upon, traditional artisans, providers of traditional services, petty selfemployed workers and destitutes including beggars.After the British took control of the forests (which they exploited ruthlessly for their own purposes), these people were forced to depend on much smaller areas and forest resources started becoming over-exploited to some extent.In cultures that encourage independence, individuals will show less pro-social behaviour, because people are expected to take care of themselves, and not to depend on help from others.Rama has to depend on her employer, a medium landowner in Sonpur, for credit.The trader is a powerful man in the village and the farmers have to depend on him for loans not only for cultivation, but also to meet other exigencies such as illnesses, children's school fees.It has been observed that an agricultural society has to depend on the collective efforts of its members.They have to depend for loans (as in the case of Swapna, the small farmer), for raw materials and marketing of their goods (weavers in the putting out system), and most often for employment (workers at the garment factory).In fact, the profits of the East India Company came to depend on the tea trade.As a result the poor have to depend on markets rather than the ration shops for their food needs.For many people the pattern of alcohol abuse extends to dependence.At present, it is the richer households who receive credit from formal sources whereas the poor have to depend on the informal sources.