1.   Engineers could also reduce their dependence on strategically important metals by redesigning components.

2.   The U.S. needs to reduce its dependence on insecure foreign oil supplies.

3.   Scientists are trying to find ways of reducing our dependence on energy sources that contribute towards global warming.

4.   However, the report stressed the long-term need to diversify mainland industries and to reduce dependence on oil, which was currently increasing.

5.   Though originally encouraged to reduce their dependence on civil servants, the soldiers could not govern alone.

6.   Conservatives as well as people of the left were anxious to find ways to reduce British dependence on the United States.

7.   They claim that the West is using environmental arguments as a foil for reducing their dependence on oil and developing alternative energy sources.

8.   Mr Myasnikovich said the government aimed to carry out price liberalisation, privatisation and structural transformation of the economy to reduce dependence on Russian oil.

9.   However, the development of welfare benefits may well have reduced dependence on any particular employer.