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• v  be contingent upon (something that is elided)
  That depends
• v  have faith or confidence in

• A new study suggests that male monkeys trade favors with females for sex and that the market price depends on availability.
• Parents insist that how kids turn out depends on when they were born.
• Its destructive power would really depend on the size of the conventional bomb, and the volume and nature of the nuclear material.

• count
• bet
• look
• calculate
• reckon

News & Articles

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• The Illustrated History Of High Yield
  Buybacks, dividends, and M&A all depend on firms' abilities to borrow cheap. With leverage ratios rising (and micro fundamentals weakening) as we noted here , macro fundamentals deteriorating, and the visible hand of the Fed now lifting off the repressed neck of risk managers, we have a simple question - What Happens Next? Simply put, your glowing stocks cannot rally in a world of surging debt ...
  June 21, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• Vt. camp focuses on fun and nutrition
  Thousands of Vt. children depend on free or reduced-price lunches during the school year. But when cafeterias close in June, those kids lose an important source of nutrition. A special summer camp works to fill that void.
  June 21, 2013 - WCAX-TV Vermont
• Does future of human race depend on Kansas Mine?
  After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine.
  June 20, 2013 - Eyewitness News Bakersfield

Quotes

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• Jackie Speier in San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
  The most important lesson to be taken away is that the benefits of legalization depend strongly on how it is implemented. Some veteran growers in far northern California oppose legalization, fearing it would increase competition and cut profits,... Daniel Hamburg http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hamburg&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEmbyEh6kYH-beSUVyR1hxMYzwSaA Birmingham Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/657266/cs/1/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGYc4R0ESGFUHS99RbcLo7rO0g36A Jul 8, 2010 26503 35330 depend Our children's health should not depend on the consciences of anonymous sources. Although McDonald's did the right thing by recalling these products, we need stronger testing standards to ensure that all children's products are proven safe before...
• Mahmoud Othman in The Associated Press
  This will depend on to what extent the political parties will be flexible,Othman said in an interview. "But if they stay adamant to their demands then, in my opinion, it will be hard to go forward."