count on

The Trojans will welcome the country’s top-rated recruiting class, but how many freshmen could they realistically count on to produce right away?

But a far stronger feeling pervaded fields such as this one: That for now, as in the past, one simply had to work because everything counted on it.

Within the luxury industry, brands that count on aspirational shoppers for a sizable chunk of their U.S. business include the likes of Gucci, Burberry and Saint Laurent.

And the farmers were unable to count on a key revenue source to keep their farms afloat.

The players believed in themselves, because they could not count on anyone else to believe in them.