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It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.
Dependence on fossil fuels makes a country vulnerable.
It turns out that natural gas is displacing our dependence on coal, which emits far more carbon dioxide.
There is absolutely no evidence to show that throwing people into detention cures their drug dependence.
It's called harm reduction, and it involves, among other things, providing clean needles and syringes, offering opioid substitution therapy and other evidence-based treatments to reduce drug dependence.
His vision was to enable man and machine to cooperate in making decisions, controlling complex situations without the inflexible dependence on predetermined programs.
Real dependence on this person.
And that's very characteristic of humans and it's called childhood, which is this extended dependence of human children on their family or parents.
And number two, obviously, this dependence upon the Lesters is going to produce a subtle, understated, we could say camouflaged, bending to keep the Lesters happy.
And number two, obviously, this dependence upon the funders produces a subtle, understated, camouflaged bending to keep the funders happy.
They have the people and the government with this exclusive dependency, but the problem here is that Congress has evolved a different dependence, no longer a dependence upon the people alone, increasingly a dependence upon the funders.
Now this is a dependence too, but it's different and conflicting from a dependence upon the people alone so long as the funders are not the people.
If the problem is members spending an extraordinary amount of time fundraising from the tiniest slice of America, the solution is to have them spend less time fundraising but fundraise from a wider slice of Americans, to spread it out, to spread the funder influence so that we restore the idea of dependence upon the people alone.
You know, who is going to say that we cracked this thing of the dependence on fossil fuels, with all that being held to ransom by rogue regimes, and so on.
Our dependence on liquid fuels makes these emissions really difficult to avoid.
I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasive that they literally get under our skin and change our physiology: things like abuse or neglect, or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illness or substance dependence.
Those include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration; parental separation or divorce; or domestic violence.
It affects areas like the nucleus accumbens, the pleasure and reward center of the brain that is implicated in substance dependence.
For instance, even a few cumulus clouds in front of the sun can reduce the electricity production in solar towers to almost zero because of this dependence on direct rays.
Yet, dependence on another to justify our existence easily leads to boredom and power games.
And then we came head-to-head with the long legacy of missionary and donor dependence that so impedes unconditional civic action, and we learned this the hard way.
But because of their dependence on sometimes just one pollinator species, orchids are also vulnerable, and many quickly go extinct.
Serious book stores are losing their franchise, nonprofit theaters are surviving primarily by commercializing their repertory, symphony orchestras are diluting their programs, public television is increasing its dependence on reruns of British sitcoms, classical radio stations are dwindling, museums are resorting to blockbuster shows, dance is dying."
And we ask the question, can we use technology, high technology, to make an expo pavilion that's decidedly low definition, that also challenges the conventions of space and skin, and rethinks our dependence on vision?
So here the world is put out of focus, while our visual dependence is put into focus.
We really wanted to bring out our absolute dependence on this master sense, and maybe share our kind of sensibility with our other senses.
But in our growing dependence on technology, we're asset-stripping those skills.
Our growing dependence on technology risks us becoming less skilled, more vulnerable to the deep and growing complexity of the real world.
In fact, our dependence upon the web and mobile devices might be taking over our cognitive and affective faculties, rendering us socially and emotionally incompetent, and I felt complicit in this dehumanization.
That initial rejection taught me that conservation is, at its core, a journey in listening deeply, to understand the pressures and realities that communities face through their dependence on nature.
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