The phrase "are essentially driven" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the fundamental motivations or forces behind a particular action or phenomenon.
Example: "The decisions made by the committee are essentially driven by the need for transparency and accountability."
Alternatives: "are fundamentally motivated" or "are primarily influenced".
After all, drug markets are essentially driven by two simple motives: profit and power.
Many talented, qualified, creative women are essentially driven out of the workplace when they cannot find child care that they can afford.
Warnock represents one of the curious paradoxes of the Championship, a division in which many enjoy life but are essentially driven by a desire to get out of it.
Thus, some writers utilise indicators that are essentially driven by the proportion of graduates in the occupation (e.g. Mason et al. 2009; Wilton 2012).
The electric fields and currents in the polar region are essentially driven by field-aligned currents caused by solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions; resulting in two-cell convection patterns and enhanced ionospheric conductivity in both polar regions (Nagata and Kokubun, 1962).
In this case of ordered growth, the areal density of the nucleated islands and their positioning are essentially driven by the elastic energy minimization on a textured surface, which predominate with respect to the local kinetics of diffusion of Si and Ge atoms.
"These early language spreads were essentially driven by demographic processes, or colonization, to use another word," Dr. Bellwood said.
Some years ago, Russell Lange, an IBM fellow, pointed out that the industry is essentially driven by exponential factors exponential improvements in density, price/performance and so on.
The deal was essentially driven by the Padres' desire to unload money owed to Hitchcock, who is in the last year of a three-year, $15.5 million contract.
If fewer people immigrate to Germany, then the working-age population will decline even more.Economic growth is essentially driven by the number of workers and the abiility to make those workers operate more efficiently, i.e. productivity.
In his long career, Gwynfor (in a land with a severe shortage of surnames, he was invariably known as Gwynfor) was essentially driven by cultural nationalism, at the heart of which was the Welsh language.
