First, it could set America free from its dependence on foreign oil.

The research could free companies from dependence on rare plants.

It is high time for Europe to free itself from economic dependence on oil imports.

Many are just beginning a life of work, liberated from dependence on welfare.

All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil.

"Why didn't your people try to wean themselves from their dependence on blood?"

He wrote about his efforts and plans to free himself from financial dependence on his father.

However, addiction is to be carefully distinguished from physical dependence.

"But those requirements have been important in moving people from dependence to self-sufficiency."

Lloyd's shifted from its dependence on individual investors in the mid-1990's.