Sentence examples for essentially to get from inspiring English sources

The point of health care reform was essentially to get people insurance.

They are the only sports that battle the elements, essentially to get them on their side.

When I filed a Freedom of Information request, their lawyer wrote me to tell me, essentially, to get lost.

Your message to Congress is, essentially, to get the best value for Medicaid cuts by wielding the knife where it hurts the fewest vulnerable people.

He had spent the eighteen-eighties trying, without success, to import an idealized version of England's physical-education regimen, essentially to get France's poodle boys onto the playing fields of Eton.

The government has portrayed President Bashar al-Assad as a hero for facing down the American president, and his supporters have circulated jokes on social media mocking Mr. Obama; one campaign features high-quality videos of Syrians old and young using a vulgar phrase to tell him, essentially, to get lost.

In typical N.B.A. fashion, Hollinger acknowledged that the team's goal was essentially not to get any worse.

It was treated as a trivial incident and the pupil was "essentially allowed to get away with it".

He never felt at home in any of them, he said, and essentially misbehaved to get himself transferred from one to another.

His mission, essentially, was to get the Americans out of Saudi Arabia; now he is playing the west at its own game, and the millions of aggrieved, desperate young Muslims across the world are likely to listen to him.

Set in Sicily, they start off as police procedurals with Mafia overtones, but have a way of ingeniously unraveling themselves into uneasy pictures of a society in which it's essentially impossible to get to the bottom of anything.