And now we know the difference between tipping points and path dependence.

In Lebanon, the number of people seeking treatment for drug dependence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2003.

Real dependence on this person.

The WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence, in its twenty eighth report, addressed the issue of the preparation of a model prescribing information on analgesics, in order to clarify the relationship between the risk of dependence and therapeutic benefits so as to reduce excessive fear of dependence on the part of some practitioners.

In collaboration with other United Nations entities, UNODC promoted cooperation between HIV and drug dependence treatments and outreach services at the community level.

The three major factors that LLDCs are dependent on their transit neighbours are dependence on transit infrastructure, dependence on political relations with neighbours, and dependence on internal peace and stability within transit neighbours.

(i) Extent of import dependence and export instability

2. Iraqi assertions of Kuwait apos s dependence

It highlights the contrast between initiative and apathy, enterprise and obedience, competition and total dependence on a state that embodies a kind of unshakable fate.

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.

Too much dependence has also had an infantilizing effect.

Dependence will decline as the international trade regime improves.

Energy dependence was a major source of economic vulnerability.

It was preferable to foster enterprise rather than dependence.

Noting the Territory apos s dependence on imported agricultural provisions,

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.

So, in general, dependence on Russian gas should not be feared.

Declining dependence on external sources, properly pursued, is an important development.

Moreover, the US has not shaken off its dependence on oil.

The economy seemed to have escaped its dependence on inventory accumulation.

II. THE SAVINGS CRISIS AND AFRICA apos S INCREASED EXTERNAL DEPENDENCE

Noting further the Territory apos s dependence on imported agricultural products,

Many recipients have become trapped in a damaging cycle of dependence.

And I found myself, really developing a dependence on this phone.

He took advantage of my dependence on him to betray me.

The improvements in reproductive health are a key health care strategy in regulating the intervals between births and reducing maternal and infant mortality rates and women's dependence on abortions.

Nabucco would reach Europe via Turkey and would drastically reduce Caspian supplier countries dependence on Russia s pipelines, and the new southeastern EU members dependence on Russian gas supplies.

Many aspects of colonialism are evident in the ever widening gap between the developed and the developing countries and the dependence of impoverished millions on the largesse of a few.

First, the production chain must shift from export dependence toward domestic consumption.

The first is that dependence on Middle East oil is increasingly risky.

This same short term thinking characterizes the world s dependence on fossil fuels.

One result was a deepening of North Korea s economic dependence on China.

This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

It perpetuates a dependence on continuous deliveries of basic aid throughout Croatia.

Palestinian dependence on Israeli goods exacerbates the problem, as does Israeli control over the movement of goods and people to, within, and between the West Bank and the blockaded Gaza strip.

Moreover, it would boost food supplies and reduce Afghanistan s exorbitant dependence on imports.

But Raúl Castro wants to avoid dependence on one or two countries alone.

But the element of personal dependence is a throwback to the preindustrial world.

Commodity dependence, even with the creation of considerable domestic value added, remains high.

The Arrhenius equation is a formula for the temperature dependence of reaction rates.

More political education was needed to break the psychology and culture of dependence.

The economy remained weak, however, with dependence on a few commodities, including vanilla.

Competition in fund raising is obviously accentuated by the dependence on supplementary funding.

Local governments bear a large economic burden from this dependence on the automobile.

There was much dependence on the annual grant in aid from New Zealand.