be conditioned on/upon
idiom
formal
—used to say that something will happen only if something else also happens
Payment is conditioned on/upon completion of the project.
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Licenses for new oil projects, for example, could be conditioned on revenues being allocated to international organizations that can address Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis.
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Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2024
Critics of the administration's approach have long called for arms shipments to be conditioned on Israel's conduct in the war.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
But as long as what follows is akin to past rounds of exchanges that remained contained and did not escalate to an unrestrained conflict, Biden’s coming exit frees him to concentrate on concluding an Israeli-Saudi normalization deal that would likely be conditioned on an end to the war in Gaza.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
After October 7, Biden decided to pursue a strategy of fully embracing Netanyahu—insisting (for a time) that any criticism would be issued in private and that U.S. military assistance would not be conditioned on the actions of the Israeli government.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2024
Critics of the administration's approach have long called for arms shipments to be conditioned on Israel's conduct in the war.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
But as long as what follows is akin to past rounds of exchanges that remained contained and did not escalate to an unrestrained conflict, Biden’s coming exit frees him to concentrate on concluding an Israeli-Saudi normalization deal that would likely be conditioned on an end to the war in Gaza.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
After October 7, Biden decided to pursue a strategy of fully embracing Netanyahu—insisting (for a time) that any criticism would be issued in private and that U.S. military assistance would not be conditioned on the actions of the Israeli government.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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“Be conditioned on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be%20conditioned%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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