Sentence examples for essentially engaged in from inspiring English sources

In providing that confidential information, which violates N.B.A. rules, Donaghy essentially engaged in the sports equivalent of insider trading.

The governors of California and New York are essentially engaged in a bidding war, offering tuition reimbursements, home loans and incentives for advanced certification.

Still, proving that cigarette companies essentially engaged in criminal activity, which is what the law requires, is a daunting task, one that rarely succeeds in tobacco cases, some legal scholars say, even with the truckloads of documents that became public from earlier tobacco lawsuits brought by state attorneys general.

Since then, the government has essentially engaged in a strategy to wait the protesters out, and the movement has appeared to fracture amid a lack of cohesive strategy among various leaders.

Former employees of Trump University, an institution which never had accreditation, have testified in saying that they essentially "engaged in a methodical, Systematic Series of misrepresentations" designed to separate people from their money.

Though the most famous episode of this era remains the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev essentially engaged in a global thermonuclear standoff, that was far from the only time the United States and Russia came close to nuclear catastrophe.

Fine calls Mendocino the state's "progressive lab," because it was essentially engaging in an act of civil disobedience.

Darrell West, a Brown University political scientist who analyzes campaign commercials, said enforcement was so lax that the parties were essentially engaging in "direct candidate advocacy" with impunity.

Nevertheless, Nkemdiche's initial comments sparked a debate about the propriety of an amateur recruit essentially engaging in a negotiation for his athletic services.

"Any time you introduce big, sophisticated players essentially engaging in what seems like preferential treatment and small investors being the worse off for it, that creates, potentially, a big claim," said Michael A. Perino, a professor at St . Johns University School of Law in New York.

"His followers essentially engage in showmanship – fights, provocations, some other things," Shkumatov said, adding that the attention and web clicks are "precisely because of Stopkham's tactic of provocation".