"The chairman is remarkable at distilling what people have said – he can take nearly two hours of talk about the economy and effectively summarize the essence of that discussion".
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a foreign diplomat who visited her recently that to use military force to eliminate Iran's nuclear sites would be an extraordinarily difficult task; President Bush all but dismissed it as a near-term option to some lawmakers who, on condition of anonymity, relayed the essence of their discussion.
The essence of the discussion on the ongoing situation in Darfur, and other parts of Sudan, was that while the government appeared to cooperate with the group of experts, very few recommendations had been implemented and therefore there had been little impact on the ground.
In essence, the discussion of the future, between the two candidates, is a battle between Obama's "lessons of the past" platitudes and Romney's "I can't tell you what I'm going to do until you elect me, just trust me, okay" plans.
As we turn our conversation towards his wife, Barker's voice peaks with excitement and the essence of his relationship consumes our discussion.
It has only recently been reconstructed and systematically researched in the light of the medieval discussion of the essence of thought (cf. Iremadze, Konzeptionen, pp. 161 241).
But such a conception of human death, one could argue, only makes sense on the assumption that we are essentially human organisms (see discussion of the essence of human persons in section 2.1)—as some proponents explicitly acknowledge (see, e.g., Olson 1997).
Epistemology as a philosophical concept to study the nature and essence of knowledge could be applied as a spur to encourage further discussions among the scholars on SE.
Indeed, recent discussions question whether the ACR Criteria adequately capture the essence of FM.
