Sentence examples for act essentially from inspiring English sources

That act essentially bans bag bans, protecting the right of merchants to provide bags of any material to customers.

The Homestead Act essentially gave away land to those willing to live on it and develop it.

Should they fail to toe the line, the Patriot Act essentially cuts off foreign institutions from business relations with America.

"The Mental Health Act essentially says 'We want to protect the public from mad people'," he explains.

The F.D.A. and doctors are complicit in the process, Dr. Lauer says, leaving the population at large to act essentially as guinea pigs.

And his hesitation has been palpable, occasionally tossing off a couple of bars of rhyme but mostly sticking to crowd-oriented chants that act essentially as filler.

Some Challenge events are "support races" -- opening acts, essentially -- at Formula One venues.

These hormones bind to glucocorticoid receptor α (GRα), an intracellular protein, which acts essentially in the nucleus.

However, at the pit edge the normal flux is abruptly reduced to zero, and the planar surface acts essentially as an insulator.

The ruling National Democratic Party of Mr Mubarak, which dominated every elected body but acted essentially as a state patronage machine, has collapsed in disarray.

The sixth gear of the manual unit acts essentially as an overdrive, reducing engine speed to preserve fuel economy on the highway.