increasing reliance on
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincrease,relianceandon
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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reliance
noun[U]
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.əns/us/rɪˈlaɪ.əns/
the state of depending on or trusting in something ...
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on
preposition
uk/ɒn/us/ɑːn/
used to show that something is in a position above something else and touching it, or that something is moving into such ...
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Countries are facing this challenge in many different ways, but one common factor is theincreasingrelianceon electronics and systems.
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The survey research also confirms the primary consequence ofincreasingrelianceon state support.
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The pattern that emerges is decline in some traditional modes of collegiate control, such as mutuality, andincreasingrelianceon mechanisms of oversight and competition.
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Her development path hence led not to growing economic independence but to anincreasingrelianceon the benevolence of foreign financiers and trading partners.
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Instead, there was anincreasingrelianceon the professionalism of key service providers to ensure that services would be properly delivered.
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Concerns have been raised that some groups may be at a disadvantage in coping with theincreasingrelianceon family support suggested by these reforms.
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The only option open to these governments is to try to promote redistribution through spending while actively working against redistribution through theirincreasingrelianceon indirect taxation.
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Increasingrelianceon pest- and stage-specific insecticides will depend upon information concerning when the target pests/stages are present and how they can be most effectively treated.
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Policy was seen as ' rolling back the frontiers of the state ' withincreasingreliancebeing placed on families and on the private sector.
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In addition, nurses have experienced anincreasingrelianceon machinery and equipment, especially in areas such as critical care.
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The growing disenchantment with state management of natural resources has led toincreasingrelianceon co-management.
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Theincreasingrelianceon the governess as a symbol of middleclass status during this period, however, accompanied and complicated this rejection of aristocratic child-rearing practices.
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Theincreasingrelianceof the government after 1830 on statistical surveys rather than human intelligence led to distortion as knowledge was abstracted from the communities in which it was embodied.
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Skowronek undoubtedly believes that these stories share a common narrative, one that entails professionalism and anincreasingrelianceupon expertise.
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We can also notice that the approval of presidential initiatives has become increasingly difficult over time, which explains theincreasingrelianceon executive decrees to enact law.
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Eventually there will have to be anincreasingrelianceon nuclear energy.
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To escape from this poverty trap there has been anincreasingrelianceon occupational pension schemes.
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As times changeincreasingrelianceis being placed on radio and television.
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The health service putsincreasingrelianceon structures and systems; they are obviously important, but they are no substitute for individual responsibility.
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