Definition of "depend upon" [depend upon]

• Put trust in with confidence (verb)
• Be contingent on (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "That would depend upon whether the germs of staunch comradeship underlay the temporary emotion, or whether it were a sensuous joy in her form only, with no substratum of everlastingness."
• "+ Passive recollection does not depend upon our own efforts, but is an extraordinary grace infused by God, by which He summons together the faculties of the soul and manifests His presence and His perfections; this kind of recollection is classed by mystical writiers as the first degree of infused contemplation."
• "The person who tracks down the leak from the bottom of my Dodge Dakota four-wheel-drive pickup may not have to depend upon the repair manual to understand why it also keeps stalling in cold weather; he has an intuitive ability to pinpoint and treat vehicular flaws."