Leaned (on)

Usage examples of relied.

Unlike in 1991, Israel now has the Arrow antiballistic missile system, and although it is unproven, it has done well in tests and Jerusalem hopes it can be relied on.

Iraqi leader might be located and targeted the security forces, communications network, and Baath Party organizations that American intelligence believed he relied on to stay in power.

For operations beyond sea they relied on the seamen of the AEgean, generally Christians, as they had required the help of Genoese ships to ferry them over the Hellespont.

He relied on the arrogance of the French, and this calculation, the measures by which he brought public opinion on to his side, are the greatest achievement of his career.

That with the Mediterranean was somewhat neglected, as the government relied more on the friendship of the piratical Algerines than on the solid possession of Gibraltar and Minorca.

The ad-Dulaym were another of the key Sunni tribes Saddam relied on to keep himself in power, and the riots that broke out in their main town of ar-Ramadi took the regime several weeks to put down.

Saddam was also encountering problems within his family itself, which he had increasingly relied on to help him maintain control since the end of the Gulf War, the intifadah, and the mounting coup attempts against him.

Furthermore, Iraq relied excessively on curative treatment and paid little attention to preventive care, creating additional problems when the medicines and equipment needed for cures disappeared.

Thus, before the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq had little information regarding developments in Tehran, the mood of the country, or the operational status of the armed forces and instead relied on the misinformation of former Iranian generals who had fled the Islamic Revolution and desperately wanted Iraq to attack to try to restore them to power.

The INC recognized that its original plan was easily dismissed because it relied too heavily on its own nonexistent combat capabilities and very little on U.

Like the Northern Alliance and the Iraqi opposition groups, the KLA was much smaller than the Serbian army, was lightly armed, and largely relied on the NATO air forces to do most of the work in terms of breaking Serb formations.

It sounded dreadfully like the Alujis river rights business again, two upstream provinces against three downstream which relied on its water for irrigation.

I believe in the existence of an immaterial God, the Author and Master of all beings and all things, and I feel that I never had any doubt of His existence, from the fact that I have always relied upon His providence, prayed to Him in my distress, and that He has always granted my prayers.

She knew that to utter such a complaint I would have to acknowledge myself weaker or less courageous than she was, and she relied upon my being ashamed to make such a confession.

The Mighty People had a taboo against entering the forest and relied entirely upon the forest folk they had enslaved for meat, and for most of their supply of fruit and tubers too, for their field strips were poorly maintained, the crops stunted and diseased.