Sentence examples for before it was essentially from inspiring English sources

As I've said before, it was essentially an accounting exercise, which took seriously all of the things that the Romney campaign has promised to do and tried to figure out what would have to happen to make them mutually consistent.

In 2007, after the warrantless wiretapping program came to light (but before it was essentially legalized by Congress), the U.S. had already fallen to 41 out of 50 in Privacy International's rankings to join Russia, China, and our ally the United Kingdom in the category of "endemic surveillance societies".

However, as one observer seems to describe it, the company hit a hitch before it launched: it was essentially developing the same product as Amazon Redshift's data warehousing service, just before Redshift launched.

I started to use the CIF approach to model my scientific world - this was long before XML but it was essentially isomorphic to XML - and it inspired much of the vision of CML.

Before the financial crisis, it was essentially capped at $417,000.

It was essentially an Uber before Uber was well-known.

It's essentially the penultimate step before Game Over.

Law enforcement officials said that Mr. Powell had started taking a breath test and then stopped before it was completed, essentially refusing to take it.

It had gone to market before it was ready, and essentially the company asked consumers to pay $1,500 to beta test the product.

The Tropic Moon I system was essentially obsolete before it was deployed, and tests quickly confirmed this.

A statement from the party's Central Committee carried by the official Xinhua news agency said the decision must be approved by the top legislature before it is enacted, which is essentially a formality.