dependency

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In 2021, she joined the county counsel, assigned to Juvenile Dependency Court.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Alderney, a British Crown Dependency and part of the Channel Islands, has an independent president and a 10-member parliament.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

In a statement, the Law Officers' Department for the self-governing British Crown Dependency said Jersey Police had on Tuesday carried out searches of premises suspected of being connected to Abramovich's business activities.

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2022

Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands and a self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of northern France.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2021

Dependency and recumbency upon the Lord by faith, for strength to perform covenant engagements, is requisite to right covenanting, Isa. xxvii.

From The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and Positions Respectively by Presbytery, The Reformed