depend on/upon someone/something

Examples of depended

depended

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée.
The prices on each activity depended more on a billing structure than the true labor and material that comprised the activity.
This pattern of change depended on the storage temperature.
Further, they depended economically on the companies, and these were unwilling to pay higher prices.
Above all, their ideology of circulation depended on economically based assumptions about knowledge and communication.
We saw above that the number of elderly individuals who depended on poor relief increased over the course of the eighteenth century.
This tailoring of approaches to suit his intended audience depended upon a careful appreciation of the desires of each party and strict secrecy.
In the past, the norms ascribed to members of the community depended on their capacity as producers.
Due taxes were reckoned in proportion to one's income, whereas voluntary undertaking of public expenditures, called 'liturgies', depended on one's wealth and sense of altruism.
Generally, such aspects of economic theory depended on historically specific institutions.
The total perfect score was 32 and individual perfect scores depended on the number of correct scores they had.
Reactions of hearing people to the deaf were mixed, and in part would have depended on the degree of contact they had with them.
In fact, the decentralisation project threatened the clientelist politicians who depended on health care patronage to sustain the political networks that underpinned their electoral machines.
However, everything depended on human cases to provide infective material and volunteers to detect it.
The rate and order of the loss depended mainly on the declensional class.
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