The essence is that politicians steer too close to either the Scylla of reunification or the Charybdis of formal independence at their extreme peril.
Rather, one forms a multiplicity of variations of what is given, and while maintaining the multiplicity, one focuses attention on what remains unchanged in the multiplicity; i.e., the essence is that identical something that continuously maintains itself during the process of variation.
The essence is that this is a team.
The Gore campaign's response, in essence, is that Mr. Bush is short on achievement.
The Delorsian critique, in essence, is that faster and further integration is unpopular and that this is Mr Prodi's fault.
What the patient was saying, in essence, is that you can't really be healthy if you feel bad all the time.
His essence is that he is a team player, and his team, Barça, has garnered all the trophies available to one club in one year.
So Mr. Frank's position, in essence, is that if he had a million dollars to spend helping poor people, he'd use it to buy a couple of ventilators.
Their view, in essence, is that they should be applauded for being able to pay such big bonuses, because it means their business is successful.
One of the reasons so many confident cooks crumble at the first sniff of vanilla essence is that baking takes no prisoners.
His argument, in essence, is that the most famous chateaux of Bordeaux, based mainly on the left bank of the Gironde river, are often complacent and snobbish traditionalists who trade off their names.
