"This was a message we promoted as part of our essential services campaign ahead of this year's budget.
We have addressed these issues as part of our essential revisions.
Adhering to God's law flows naturally out of relationship, resulting not from forced obedience to externally imposed rules but as a consequence of our recognition of our essential nature as the beloved of God.
Trump calls women disgusting for, or reduces us to, our essential functions as female humans, such as going to the bathroom, menstruating and pumping breast milk to, you know, feed our babies.
It's an odd notion, because we think of our essential self as being distinct from such corporeal details.
As austerity is implemented across our essential public services, the Conservative government is discovering just how expensive cutting corners can be.
Government matters for progressives because it is how we define the limits and role of a market economy, guarantee public services and invest in our essential capacities as a country.
The recession has changed our essential nature as much as vegans have convinced us to stop perusing the Dollar Menu at McDonald's.
If Freud's work is about the opportunism of memory, about the past as our most essential and uncertain resource, Rosenfield's novel uses a false memory -- a fictional piece of Freud's past, something that never happened -- to show and tell some very interesting things not simply about Freud and psychoanalysis but about the power of influential people in our lives.
So if we are consciousness, and it is ecstatically delighting in itself, then by definition that must be our essential nature as well.
It is not just euthanasia that exposes our essential relatedness as humans, it is dying, and the caring entailed, in all its forms.
