Cropseyville once depended on water power from the nearby Quackenkill Creek.

Airlines and hotels, of course, once depended heavily upon travel agents.

Of course there has been a profound change in the areas which once depended on coal and steel.

Early models were relatively costly but did a job that once depended on guesswork.

If fashion once depended on the kindness of the in-crowd, now its most stalwart support comes from those strangers below.

Social status once depended on one's family name; however, the rise of consumerism in the United States gave rise to social mobility.

While Latin America's cellular providers once depended on upper-class users, revenues come increasingly from millions of low-income clients.

The complexities and formalities of born-sect challenge, upon which their futures once depended, now angered rather than distressed them.

The player whose income once depended on winning playground games was asked if he is feeling the pressure.

Like most upstate cities that once depended on heavy industry, Syracuse has steadily lost manufacturing jobs over the last two decades.