RELIANCE in a Sentence

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For RELIANCE, below is one of 21 sentences:
His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELIANCE
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reliance
 n.  dependence; certainty based on past experience
Classic Sentence:
1  On the strength of Darcy's regard, Bingley had the firmest reliance, and of his judgement the highest opinion.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 58
3  Jane was not deceived, but she was affected; and though feeling no reliance on her, could not help writing her a much kinder answer than she knew was deserved.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60
4  That you may begin, in a small way, to have a reliance upon yourself, and to act for yourself,' said my aunt, 'I shall send you upon your trip, alone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
5  I encouraged him to talk about Sophy, on the way; which he did with a loving reliance on her that I very much admired.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
6  But her abiding reliance was on Mr. Dick.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
7  It may be all right, sir, but I have no overweening reliance on the faith of these marquesses, or marquis, as they call themselves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  There was about him now a fine reliance.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  Master George Shelby, who, in the interval, had changed from a boy to a tall young man, was her constant and faithful assistant, and her only reliance in superintending his father's affairs.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  There was therefore no hope but in passive fortitude, and in that strong reliance on Heaven natural to great and generous characters.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  I have placed reliance upon you, my friend.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
13  Thyself art my witness what a sudden stir she raised of late on the Libyan waters, flinging all the seas to heaven in vain reliance on Aeolus' blasts; this she dared in thy realm.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
14  The influence of ancestry, however, is important in helping forward any individual or race, if too much reliance is not placed upon it.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
Example Sentence:
1  Heavy reliance on one client is not without risk when building up a business.
2  They continue to preach their gospel of self - reliance.
3  Such learning methods encourage too great a reliance upon the teacher.
4  Too heavy a reliance on a particular market may be dangerous for the company.
5  The theory is rendered suspect by its reliance on now discredited sources.
6  He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data.
7  He wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists.