Sentence examples for essentially holds from inspiring English sources

Related: Iowa farmers, hunters and legislators are fighting an Iowa Supreme Court decision that essentially holds farmers liable for any injuries suffered on their land.

This service essentially holds the keys to all of the inpatient wards, meaning that requests for informal admissions must go through them.

The budget essentially holds spending at last year's levels or lower in most state programs, except for a $382 million increase in school aid.

Advocates have hoped for a ruling that essentially holds that any law that treats people differently based on their sexual orientation (without a compelling reason) violates the equal-protection clause of the Constitution.

"The Kim regime essentially holds its people hostage," Mr. Hassig and Ms. Oh write, and they are dismayed to note that "the United States is much more interested in the hostage taker's weapons of mass destruction than in the fate of his hostages".

Many of the names with suffixes like ".co" or ".me" are simply defensive registrations by companies that want to prevent practices like so-called cybersquatting or domain name parking — that is, the registration of their name by a third party that essentially holds it for ransom.

The reader is essentially holding fragmented lives in his or her hands.

Not paying is essentially holding a gun to someone's head, too," says Mr Brennan.

In the decades that followed, this bargain has essentially held together.

They are essentially holding auditions again for middle relievers, no matter what they are paying them.

The A-listers essentially hold a standing invitation: show up and a front-row seat will happily be found.