sole reliance

collocation in English

meaningsofsoleandreliance

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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səʊl/us
/soʊl/
being one ...
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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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(Definition ofsoleandreliancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsole reliance

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Solerelianceon fee income meant that all homes had to be run on entrepreneurial lines.
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This study is limited by itssolerelianceon adolescent instead of parental report.
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Solerelianceon anthelmintics has led to the emergence of resistant parasite strains, pest resurgence, environmental pollution, drug residues in food and food products and uneconomic animal production.
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This is one of the limitations ofsolerelianceupon cross-sectional findings; we cannot assume that individual patterns of change will remain constant for all individuals across time.
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It seems to me to be wrong to put oursolerelianceon that.
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We should not forget that trade union and employee negotiations have a much wider scope thansolerelianceon wages councils.
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Pluralistic sources of finance are more helpful thansolerelianceon the state, vitally important as is its contribution.
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Theirsolereliancenow is upon their friends in another place, who have no longer the power to help them in this matter as in days gone by.
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Due to itssolerelianceon the parish for access, the museum was frequently inaccessible during the late 2000s.
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But it is no longer, and probably never again will be, thesolereliancefor determining the internal value of monetary units.
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This film saw the widening adoption ofbut notsolerelianceoncomputer-generated vehicle models in the film franchise.
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