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rely

verb bank on, be confident, be dependent on, believe in, confide, count upon, depend, feel sure, have confidence in, have faith in, lean on, look to, place trust in, put confidence in, put faith in, rely on, trust
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* Elimination of manual intervention and sight lasers that bar codes rely on.
Tag, you're it: radio frequency identification technology may soon help insurers track documents, stolen items, patients, medical histories, prescription drug use and more
Instead of fostering independence, as I had hoped, my reminders encouraged many students to rely on me even more, first for the weekly emails and second for immediate personal attention.
Re-envisioning asynchronous communication
* Some rely upon the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Unexplained clinical variance: are health plans (partly) responsible?
Non-Signature Based -- Many of the traditional security devices rely on signatures which are easily defeated by the attacks mentioned earlier.
The threat from within: the evolution of cyber attacks
"We also rely on software to help us manage call volume and shift staffing and for automation of self-help tools that clients can access on the web while being guided by the help desk agents," he says.
Serving up IT help: help desks are becoming faster, smarter, and stronger as new technologies--and security concerns--work their way into campus life
Steloy, which produces ferrous castings for many industries, such as the railroad and pump markets, and Rely Metpro, which operates South Africa's only centrifugal casting facility, produces cylindrical tubes for niche applications.
Steloy, Rely Metpro to control most of South Africa steel market
To meet this reasonable belief standard, a taxpayer may not rely on a disqualified opinion or the opinion of a disqualified tax adviser.
Tax Executives Institute--Internal Revenue Service Large and Mid-Size Business Division liaison meeting February 9, 2005
We rely on the dedication of our staff, who is as committed to the success of this program as any other stakeholder.
North's business leaders, innovators pushing the envelope
The long-standing ability of Harris to rely on its Cordele fabricators and machinists to build heavy-duty equipment contributes to the reliability of its shredders.
Harris: cranking out innovation
As do most Canadians, I therefore have to rely on eyewitness accounts of the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, in order to arrive at a well-informed assessment of the situation, preferably well balanced and thoughtfully researched accounts.
From Jim Verreault on anti-Israel bias. (Letters to the Editor)
This devaluation of non-strategic competencies is occurring because routine tactical tasks have become especially vulnerable to being outsourced or "automated away." Strategic thinking and strategic behavior, however, rely on connecting information, experience, learning, leadership, foresight, and decision-making skills, and therefore remains the exclusive domain of humans.
Developing strategic competencies: a starting point; behaving, thinking, and becoming strategic is not easy, but it is critical for increasing your value to your organization. (CareerPath)
Both standards attempted to change the auditing industry by requiring auditors to consider inherent and control risk in audits and to rely less on a checklist approach.
So long, traditional audit: no more "same as last year" with risk-based approach

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