Dalhousie encouraged private enterprise to develop railways in India for the good of the people and also to reduce absolute dependence on the government.

The Yankees won nothing but a hard-earned lesson about a team's absolute dependence on veterans.

In later life he described it as the feeling of absolute dependence, or, as meaning the same thing, the consciousness of being in relation to God.

European allies are now serious economic rivals, and they are happy to conceal their absolute military dependence with obstreperously independent foreign policies.

I cannot bear this absolute dependence, sir, even upon you.

Jared couldn't escape a sense of helplessness as he thought of man's absolute dependence on the manna plants.

Schliermacher defined the essence of religion as 'the feeling of absolute dependence'.

The reality is that we in the EU need to break down our absolute dependence on Russian energy supplies.

The growth factor has a major, but not absolute, dependence on somatotropin.

It has been described as a "deeply Augustinian work", and stresses throughout man's absolute dependence on Christ for salvation.