Sentence examples for essentially if it from inspiring English sources

Rand Paul (who apparently thinks it would have been fine for the government to prosecute Jane Fonda for treason) asked, essentially, if it is now officially O.K. for the government to use drones to kill dissident actresses and antiwar student demonstrators — and to carry out such extrajudicial executions on American soil.

By Hendrik Hertzberg March 17, 2013 Rand Paul (who apparently thinks it would have been fine for the government to prosecute Jane Fonda for treason) asked, essentially, if it is now officially O.K. for the government to use drones to kill dissident actresses and antiwar student demonstrators — and to carry out such extrajudicial executions on American soil.

A thing has a property essentially if it could not exist without having that property.

More exactly, a haecceity is a type of individual essence, i.e., a property P such that (i) P is possibly exemplified, (ii) necessarily, if an individual s exemplifies P, then s exemplifies P essentially and, moreover, (iii) necessarily, nothing other than s could exemplify P. (s exemplifies a property P essentially if it is not possible that s exist and fail to exemplify P).

Essentially, if it's still growing fast, don't choke it with monetization.

Essentially, if I understand it correctly, the report's authors provide a specific strategy by which India's government could emulate the pathways followed by urban planners in other leapfrogging economies in Asia and Latin America.

Essentially, if I know it will only take 30 minutes to inspect my air ducts, then that's something I'm likely to at least attempt.

Essentially, if I want to contradict you, it's not enough for me to say the opposite.

An American city as important as Detroit would have never been essentially discarded if it had been 85% white instead of 85% black.

(1) For much of the history of the industry, oil has been priced essentially as if it were an inexhaustible resource.

This 'becoming more,' however, is essentially moral; if it is not first and foremost that, then our self-improvement won't take us very far, whatever skills and abilities we may acquire — though I do not denigrate such in themselves.