What is "depends"

Usage examples of "depends".

But, now that my honour is disengaged, and my fortune rendered independent, by the last will of a worthy nobleman, whose friendship I was favoured with in France, I presume to lay myself at the feet of the adorable Monimia, as the most faithful of admirers, whose happiness or misery wholly depends upon her nod.

It depends on people like Glancey and me and the Vice-President to keep it funded, and the best thing we have going for us is not Wernher von Braun, good as he is, or brilliant men like you and Kolff.

Their existence as a movement depends upon industrialization, the same industrialization that they must aggressively condemn as leading to the despoliation of Gaia.

Kosmos, the collapse of the Kosmos, and the consequent despoliation of Gaia precisely in the incapacity to engage the interior processes of transformation upon which reflection itself depends in the first place, and upon which mutual agreement and mutual accord, which alone will save Gaia, must proceed.

Our glorious nation depends on the solar energy supply just as Saronin does, just as the whole world does.

In part, the answer to the question of how much urban combat we would face depends on the answer to the question of how hard the Iraqi armed forces would fight.

But when such a movement took hold in hundreds of thousands of places all over the country it would be impossible to suppress, because the very guards the system depends on to crush such a movement would be among the rebels.

Since someone thought it was a good idea to protect the city for historical reasons, there was no air support, no naval gunfire, something that the Marine Corps depends dramatically on, and no artillery.

Depend upon it, Sir, vivacity is much an art, and depends greatly on habit.

It apparently depends in chief part on the strong aggregation of their cellcontents, which thus become opaque, and do not reflect light.

Quick inflection depends partly on the quantity of the substance given, so that many glands are simultaneously affected, partly on the facility with which it is penetrated and liquefied by the secretion, partly on its nature, but chiefly on the presence of exciting matter already in solution.

The length of time during which the tentacles remain inflected largely depends on the quantity of the substance given, partly on the facility with which it is penetrated or acted on by the secretion, and partly on its essential nature.

We must remember that the movement of each separate tentacle depends on its gland being excited, except when a motor impulse is transmitted from the glands of the disc, and then the movement, as just stated, does not take place until some little time has elapsed.

This probably depends merely on the protoplasm being less and less aggregated, lower and lower down in the tentacles, as can be seen plainly when the excitement has been slight.

However this be,--and I love the person on whom fortune depends so much that I cannot, without pain, speak of the mere chance of its passing from his possession into mine,--you will own at least that I shall not hereafter deserve wealth the less for the advantages of experience.