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Definition of Reliance
Reliance

The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.

Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance.

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Reliance Quotations

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Abdul Kalam

My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.
John M. McHugh

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
Frank B. Kellogg

Reliance Translations

reliance in German is vertrauen
reliance in Hungarian is bizalom, bizodalom
reliance in Latin is fides
reliance in Swedish is beroende


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