But if the results of an investigation reveal inappropriate or illegal activities, the essence of the facts should drive potential consequences and future security actions," he said.
The essence of Minimalism, in fact, was concentration, your concentration as viewer, which Flavin's project demands as much as any other work by him.
While Christians never agreed on a specific teaching on original sin, they did describe as the essence of Christianity the fact that something limited humans and led them to need redemption.
It is the essence of accepting the fact we don't control most of what we think we control.
The marble plaque on the restored British consulate reads in English: "The so-called European Geographical and Explorative Scientific Expeditions to Africa, which were in essence and a matter of fact intended to be colonial ones to occupy and colonize vital and strategic parts of Africa, embarked from this same building".
Though we ordinarily think that we desire objects because they are "valuable" (i.e., because they supposedly have this "mystical, incomprehensible essence"), the fact of the matter, says Ehrenfels, is that we ascribe value to objects because we desire them (Ehrenfels 1897, 2, also see Fabian in Albertazzi et al. 1996, 166).
Closely observed, they have the matter-of-fact, almost impersonal essence of photography.
"The very essence of modernity is the fact that everything — and really everything — can be replaced by something else, which is absolutely monstrous," he said.
In all organisms the essence of fertilization is, in fact, the fusion of the hereditary material of two different sex cells, or gametes, each of which carries half the number of chromosomes typical of the species.
This may sound like the essence of globalization, but the fact that everybody from Yerevan to Brasilia, Jakarta to Jerusalem, knows songs by the Black Eyed Peas or wears New York Yankees caps doesn't mean that culture is the same everywhere.
