Chu "helped my administration move America towards real energy independence, " Obama's statement said, citing a doubling in renewable energy use, reductions in dependence on foreign oil and progress toward creating green energy jobs.
And thereby, when you have problems in a region of the world that produces oil, you are -- the effect on your own production -- your own dependence on that -- the reduction in your dependence on that insulates you from some of that shock.
Its democracy, one of the great Enlightenment triumphs...now resembles pre-Enlightenment Europe in its dependence on money and private power.
In reducing dependence on coal and natural gas for power and heating, and petroleum for transportation, biofuels have proved to be much less promising than advertised.
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Even for those of you who are interested in seeing a reduction in our dependence on fossil fuels -- and I know how passionate young people are about issues like climate change -- the fact of the matter is, is that for quite some time, America is going to be still dependent on oil in making its economy work.
Asia's biggest clothing retailer and owner of the Uniqlo casual clothing brand, which has been building a network of production sites in Bangladesh since 2008 to lower its dependence on manufacturing in China, where about 90% of all Uniqlo apparel is made.
Krebs was mining a conceptual shift, one in which our dependence on the Internet and networked computers had turned code into the DNA of physical infrastructure.
Last quarter, the second largest wireless carrier in China saw its net profits rise by almost 90% year-over-year as 3G revenues grew strongly and subsidies were reigned in by lower dependence on expensive smartphones such as the iPhone.
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Given the certainty of this rule, we were able to push the 2020 target to 2016, in a way that, again, helps our goals in reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and gives auto manufacturers the certainty that they have always wanted on the manufacturing side.
And the President has a very long-term vision about where we need to go in terms of cutting our dependence on foreign oil, investing in clean energy, investing in renewables.
In 2010, our dependence on foreign oil was under 50% for the first time in more than a decade.
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In 2010, our dependence on foreign oil was under 50 percent for the first time in over a decade.
The iPhone maker has been rumored to be diversifying its supply chain away from Samsung in order to reduce its dependence on a company that has become its fiercest rival in the mobile device space.
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In the case of homeowners, they will see more money in their pockets, and we're reducing our dependence on foreign oil in the Middle East.
The redoubled effort called for in this report will help reduce dependence on imported oil and spur economic growth in developing countries while minimizing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Funded individual pensions liberate citizens, especially the less well-off, from dependence on the state in retirement, and replace that dependence with financial self-determination.
When the central bank raises rates, it is usually to tamp down inflation, though the Fed said its move in February was designed to reduce the banking sector's dependence on government credit in the wake of the financial crisis.
Despite the recession kicked off in 2008, many leaders were recognizing that their dependence on talent was structural in a knowledge economy.
But the one thing almost all of us have in common is our dependence on our 108-year-old subway system.
For its part, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), who oversees power market reliability, issued a December report highlighting that gas and power markets need to be more synchronized to effectively enable reliability in light of higher dependence on natural gas generation.
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Abbey National, once a dull but solid British building society (thrift), moved into wholesale banking in an attempt to reduce its dependence on its traditional mortgage business, only to suffer big losses in high-yield credit and other novel businesses.
Thus, from an end-September 2008 level of 21 percent dependence on government financing, in two years time the dependence increased by 3 percent points to 24 percent.
Already there are calls for policy changes to fix the flaws in America's energy infrastructure exposed by Katrina: its tight refining capacity, its dependence on offshore drilling in the hurricane-prone Gulf, its love affair with big, inefficient cars.
In a move to reduce its dependence on Apple and develop apps more quickly for rival tablet computers, the FT in June launched a Web-based version of its mobile app, the first of its kind by a major publisher.
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Our investments in clean energy that are helping to break our dependence on foreign oil and are creating jobs here in Ohio would be cut by nearly a fifth.
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Infosys in particular was reeling from its over-dependence on the European markets, while rivals had larger stakes in India and in Indian government.
In Tierra Caliente, the dependence on La Familia extends, for many people, to employment.
Mr. Bradley has also stated in the past that American dependence on oil imports pose no threat to national security.
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Today's event with diverse industry, labor and government leaders reiterated how far we have come in developing advanced vehicles that reduce our country's dependence on foreign oil, and grow jobs in our communities.
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