Example sentences of "rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher 's international stature also rested on the curious chemistry of her relationship with President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union , but the rigour of the Prime Minister consorted somewhat uneasily with the fluid world of perestroika , democratization throughout eastern Europe , German reunification , and moves towards international disarmament . |
| 2 | In part it rested on the belief that in order to restore peace and security in the Gulf , as Resolution 678 authorises member states to do , it is necessary to destroy Iraq 's capacity to wage war . |
| 3 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 4 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 5 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 6 | She rested on the boulder and from it looked down to where the river ran shallow and offered a breeding ground to a lively population of insects . |
| 7 | On the other hand , unlike their predecessors , they were not advocates of single causes , such as temperance or even religious instruction , but instead sought to attract members with a varied programme which consciously mixed recreation with education , welfare , and sometimes church attendance , for a variety of reasons all of which rested on the specificity of youth in relation to age and to class . |
| 8 | The blinds were drawn to darken our downstairs room where the coffin rested on the table in front of the range . |
| 9 | The original outline for settlement looks both feudal and foolish — foolish because the men of importance were to be ranged in a tidy hierarchy with outlandish titles like cacique and landgrave , and feudal because it rested on the assumption that the proprietors would get a permanent rental income from politically loyal and economically co-operative tenants . |
| 10 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 11 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |
| 12 | Family law was a codification of the patriarchal family system , which rested on the existence of the ie as the basic unit of operation . |
| 13 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |
| 14 | The Unionist preponderance in London rested on the western residential suburbs , eighteen constituencies that elected Unionists at all elections from 1885 to 1910 . |
| 15 | It rested on the myth that the peasantry were instinctively socialist and that it was possible for Russia to bypass capitalism , moving directly from semi-feudalism to socialism based on the peasant commune . |
| 16 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 17 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 18 | His hand closed on hers as it rested on the wheel : ‘ Thank you again , my dear , God bless . ’ |
| 19 | Li Yuan nodded , looking down at the plump , bejewelled hand that rested on the rough cloth of his sleeve . |
| 20 | Beatrice Webb 's admiration for the philanthropic work of Mary Booth rested on the way in which the latter expressed ‘ gentle and loving contempt for any special work outside the ordinary sphere of a woman 's life , [ and ] her high standard of excellence which should discourage any vain attempt to leave the beaten track of a woman 's duty ’ . |
| 21 | He rested on the water waiting for what he knew was going to happen . |
| 22 | He sat looking at his hands as they rested on the table , palms down , the fingers softly drumming . |
| 23 | The view , increasingly held , that the pre-1834 Poor Law was a far from ineffective mechanism in this respect , rests on the recognition that until the sums needed for relief inflated so hugely in the later eighteenth century and especially after the crisis of the mid 1790s , extreme disgruntlement was not often expressed , as a sense of community support and involvement led to a fairly general acceptance of the obligation which rested on the better-off . |
| 24 | The bogus golfers had placed a triangular support under the open end of the decapitated golf-bag and had hammered a notched support into the grout at its base , which still rested on the trolley . |
| 25 | The view that rested on the belief that the only true and ultimate test of academic responsibility lay in an institution validating and awarding its own degrees . |
| 26 | The glory of German learning , the Privatgelehrter ( or private scholar ) rested on the private income . |
| 27 | That by Mendeleev and the German Lothar Meyer ( 1830–95 ) rested on the fact that the properties of elements varied in a periodic manner with their atomic weights . |
| 28 | He slid her hand lower until it rested on the irrefutable proof of his desire for her . |
| 29 | Plans for global communications now often seem to rest on the semantics of international standards . |
| 30 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |