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Savings to the supplier from the installation of so-called "smart meters" might not be passed on to customers, while ministers may be over-reliant on an ineffective market to drive down prices, a report by the public administration committee finds.

Smart meters could lead to huge rise in energy bills 2012

• Awarded the IT contract to a company, Cassidian, with no direct experience of supplying emergency services and was over-reliant on sub-contractors.

MPs join attack on FiReControl 2011

Britain in 1914 was over-reliant on coal and shipbuilding, industries that struggled between the world wars, and had failed to grasp early enough the importance of emerging new technologies.

Decline and fall of the American empire 2011

BP's casing design was over-reliant on a good cement job and vigilant well control.

Robert L. Cavnar: Preview of Spill Commission Report -- Confirms Weaknesses in Industry, Government Robert L. Cavnar 2011

The importance of finishing first is sport's one universal truth, but it now looks somewhat over-reliant on the idea.

Vote for winners in sharp suits, not the wishy-washy alternative | Simon Burnton 2011

Many Russians see little difference in the promises of Putin and Medvedev, suspecting that either man will preside over a stifling, semi-authoritarian state that is over-reliant on hydrocarbons and slow on change of any kind.

Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev: So which of the old allies is truly in charge? | Tom Parfitt 2011

Pendle has been over-reliant on government money, and we have done pretty well out of it in recent years.

Cuts come to a green and pleasant land Jamie Doward 2010

UK is still over-reliant on financial services for tax and growth.

Spending review: how did the banks get off so lightly? Jill Treanor 2010

If he did, he would not say that we are over-reliant on it.

Cameron's Comedy Economics Jamie Whyte 2011

Britain in 1914 was over-reliant on coal and shipbuilding, industries that struggled between the world wars, and had failed to grasp early enough the importance of emerging new technologies.

Decline and fall of the American empire 2011