Noun : Her complete reliability earned her our dependence. ,the dependence of an effect upon a cause. ,the dependence of Martinique upon France.    From Dictionary.com. 

For the first time since 1977, our foreign oil dependance is dropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting… « Tai-Chi Policy] Reference

Quit spending taxpayer money on social programs that create long-term dependance on government rather than foster independence from government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Hagel-Bloomberg?] Reference

Are they that live in dependance on thee also happy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

I have not a dependance in the world, now, but upon you! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

For all sorts of reasons the west must end its dependance on oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Was it to make her the better feel where she could and must place her sole dependance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for the Young] Reference

Is it not natural to suppose that as our dependance is greater, our attachment is stronger?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 December 1780] Reference

I do think, frankly0, that the dependance of Obama on being completely saintly is a little simplistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Radio Ad: Hillary Will Say Anything To Get Elected] Reference

Rather than support our dependance on foreign oil since that is the only reason we want stability there.    From Wordnik.com.  [whyjakeisodd Diary Entry] Reference

Dr. Joseph DiFranza, a professor in Massachusetts stated the dependance depends on the first cigarrette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study:First puff can turn a kid to a smoker] Reference

Je pense que la limite indique seulement le niveau de cachets a ne pas depasser pour eviter la dependance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

My whole dependance is upon Mr. B — —, and I have a near view of being provided for by his favour to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

I think I am stripped of all dependance upon them; but fear I do not make that improvement of them which I ought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference

It is time to move from exclusion to inclusion, from dependance to independence, from paternalism to empowerment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Gallaudet University Commencement Address] Reference

You face a very bad situation, with demographics, nanny statism, dependance on Saudi money, and a feminized society.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They were borne with the same spirit that in all her life guided her conduct, -- a strict dependance upon Providence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

The refugees, in a state of forced idleness, have often developed a dependance syndrome towards aid, the UNHCR noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I knew she would never see past the ponytail and the earring, the worn-out clothes and the chronic welfare dependance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Come Down]

I expected to have received my ticket, but no one came, I clearly see no dependance can be placed upon the creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference

First thing Judge, Nuclear Power Plants would only lessen our dependance on foreign oil if we all drove electric cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - An illustration of the size of our nuclear arsenal.] Reference

Without this necessary dependance, democracy has no value, as it must be based on an open-ended process of democratization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Global Democracy Possible? -The Contemporary Crisis of Democracy] Reference

Council in an effort to cut dependance on Western countries in peacekeeping and peace-enforcing operations in the continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The great dependance of those northern colonies is upon the supplies of lumber and provisions which they send to the islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

The verbally symbolic mode, in particular, is not a mode of knowing or representing except in dependance upon the other modes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Psychological Issue] Reference

He does make one valid point which is the contradiction of Ian decrying our dependance on oil when he drives as much as he does.    From Wordnik.com.  [here's your hat, what's your hurry] Reference

Reduced to a condition of dependance, Balfour accepted the situation of manager of a manufacturing establishment at Balgonie, in Fife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

Guinea, to have been part of the Arrou islands; but if any dependance can be placed on former charts, it lies a degree farther to the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference

The influence of boundary surfaces on the orientation of the liquid, the nucleation and time dependance of phase transitions are also studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996] Reference

We had now fully experienced how little dependance can be placed on the best marine charts, to show all the inlets and openings upon an extensive line of coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference

The assuming letter she had received; the interview she should have to sustain; and her apparent dependance upon Sir Sedley, sinking her into complete despondence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

As a result, throughout the first half of the 19th century, the incidence of opium dependance appears to have increased steadily in Enland, Europe and the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chonology of Opium in China by Peter Jordan] Reference

Let Britain waive her pretensions to the Continent, or the Continent throw off the dependance, and we should be at peace with France and Spain, were they at war with Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Sense] Reference

To examine that connection and dependance, on the principles of nature and common sense, to see what we have to trust to, if separated, and what we are to expect, if dependant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Sense] Reference

Poor gentleman! all his dependance is upon my master, who has a very good living for him, if the incumbent die; and he has kept his bed these four months, of old age and dropsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference