Synonym: confide, count on, depend on, trust. Similar words: barely, rely on, severely, entirely, relatively, relax, barrel, relate. Meaning: [rɪ'laɪ] v. have confidence or faith in.
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181. Try not to rely on Valium - it's highly addictive and will cause more problems in the long run.
182. Government ministers rely on the conclusions from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment prior to the field trials.
183. By comparison firms which rely more heavily on advertising are described as adopting a pull strategy. 23.
184. If he entrusts you to her care you should rely on her.
185. Similarly, professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers' dependence upon them.
186. Negatives: They seem to have cut down on staff recently, upon whom you must rely for beverage service.
187. Although the names of these principles have been variously translated, I shall rely on my own designations in explaining them.
188. Finally, we need to ensure that the creators of machine-readable data upon whom we will increasingly rely adopt standard practices.
189. It is something on which they can rely and something that their colleagues in other countries will find difficult to deny.
190. It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre.
191. Skating may not have to rely much longer on such naked attempts at attracting audiences.
192. You can't be good at tennis if you rely on brawn alone -- it takes skill as well.
193. In this new economy, smart businesses rely on an educated workforce to thrive.
194. Indeed, we do not understand the Government to rely on statutory authorization for this seizure....
195. But while more sophisticated procedures may save time, they often rely on more expensive equipment.
196. In addition, the organized networks could to a certain extent rely on intimidation and social pressure.
197. They will rely instead on reports from correspondents for their respective owners, Univision and Telemundo.
197. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
198. Translated into today's idiom, the more that local government can rely upon its own tax base, the better.
199. A.. Certainly if you had to rely on those two sources of income alone you would have a very difficult time.
200. What principles do children rely on as they analyse the structure of words and make use of their knowledge?
201. If it was a drug company, they rely pretty heavily on impressive animal test data to put the product over.
202. This raises doubts about some of the signposts the Fed used to rely on.
203. Such success stories do not rely on good reviews or critical acclaim for big sales and widespread popularity.
204. A party intending to rely on documentary evidence in proceedings under the Children Act must disclose this in advance.
205. Both rely on something lost being found, a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second.
206. Most public library authorities, and some academic libraries, now rely heavily on approval collections.
207. This mechanism does not rely on a disciplinary code nor on a court-like body.
208. Apparently the kings could rely not only on taxation from the civitates, but also on local armed forces.
209. Researchers have found that people rely upon their experience to help them understand and cope with new or stressful situations.
210. They can no longer rely on conventional market research to predict accurately the spending habits of ageing baby boomers or their children.