The efforts of business groups to influence the SEC's work was especially effective because of their success in pressing a court challenge to another part of the financial overhaul legislation — in essence, an extension of their lobbying efforts.
(G VI 598/AG 207) But Cartesian corporeal substance, insofar as its essence is extension, cannot be itself a source of activity.
Atoms, he claims, are unfit for this role, because they are themselves extended beings, and for Leibniz, divisibility is of the essence of extension.
For it follows from the essence of extension that it is capable of many sorts of limitations and that the assumed sort of limitation of one of its level planes contains no contradiction.
(OPD 5: 166) The object of the true physics is not the substantial forms of the Scholastics, but matter whose essence is extension, and its modes which are nothing else but various divisions and groupings of its parts.
The principles in question, which are spread through the work, concern the nature of matter (that its essence is extension), the activity of God in creating and conserving the world, the nature of mind (that it is an unextended, thinking substance), mind body union and interaction, and the ontology of sensory qualities.
The key here is that the Trump Organization is a privately held corporation and is, in essence, an extension of Trump.
It is, in essence, an extension of his obligation as a political leader to protect or expand his party's power.
Policy should begin with and be directed by values that become a vision of how the world should be--data keyed to the essence and extension of those values should be used to shape the ways and means of making it so.
This system provides, in essence, an extension to the InterProScan domain-matching tool, as it is able to work at the level of a whole genome and place proteins in defined classes.
