The numbers inform a consensus among the political punditry that Sanders' campaign is essentially doomed, destined to stall out the moment the race moves beyond lily-white Iowa and New Hampshire.
Essentially, you feel destined for great things, but personally inadequate, and so you work like a maniac to prove yourself.
Like the New Orleans Saints after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles from Sendai are now essentially homeless and appear destined to play games in Kobe, which suffered its own major earthquake in 1995.
If one were being tough, one might argue that Chummy is not that much of a stretch for Hart, who has almost become shorthand for the clumsy, well-meaning but essentially bonkers posh girl destined to say the wrong thing in front of the man she madly fancies.
Of course, any presidential trip to "the front" is always essentially a domestic political phenomenon, destined to trump all other news and be covered uncritically.
Taylor Mill may therefore be destined to remain an essentially contested figure in the history of philosophy.
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After all, it's easier to believe that gay tolerance boosts economies, rather than believe that American capitalism essentially means that some cities are now destined to become poor as industry and high-paying jobs flee to elsewhere.
In a fascinating 2008 book, "Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History Princetonon), Eleanor Robson even suggests that many tablets like these of the second millennium B.C. "were essentially ephemera, created to aid and demonstrate recall, destined almost immediately for the recycling bin".
At about the same time she submitted the paperwork, the New York Times lamented the fact that taxpayer dollars were destined for "putting things back as they were, essentially duplicating the vulnerability that existed before the hurricane".
