For example, the Republican leadership is pushing what they call a "territorial tax" that would essentially exempt from U.S. taxation any profit multinational corporations claim they earned overseas.
In short, it essentially exempted Congress from the Republican bill's weakened requirements for essential health benefits and protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The new break essentially exempted families from paying taxes on the first $500,000 of a house's appreciation after they sold it.
And the 1995 accord, which essentially exempted Russia from American sanctions on arms deliveries to Iran, emboldened Moscow to ignore other agreements, particularly on sales of missile and nuclear technology to Iran, according to Gordon C. Oehler, who directed the Nonproliferation Center of the Central Intelligence Agency until he retired in 1998.
The settlement appeared to cap a bruising legal battle with powerful landowners, who for decades have kept this coastline almost entirely to themselves thanks to the ranch's complicated legislative history, which essentially exempted owners from typical beach access rules.
The Geneva Conventions require humane treatment of all prisoners, and the Bush Administration has essentially exempted the C.I.A. from needing to meet this standard in all cases.
Many people in the communications industry believe that the commission essentially exempted the D.S.L. operations from unbundling requirements in the hope that such protection would encourage the phone giants to deploy D.S.L. more quickly.
The beating startled much of the state and horrified Ms. Pressly's neighbors in the prestigious Pulaski Heights neighborhood, an enclave of old houses, and where residents considered themselves essentially exempt from violent crime.
Despite this consensus, a group of Americans has been essentially exempt from prosecution, even though their crimes are committed on American soil against American citizens.
Just last December Senator Phil Gramm pushed through one-eyed-bearded-man-with-a-limp legislation that essentially exempted Enron (whose board of directors -- and audit committee -- included one Wendy Gramm) from the rules that govern other commodity traders.
