Some say the anti-abortion movement looks so successful because it has essentially ceded defeat on the broader goal of ending legal abortion.
With Mr. Menem having essentially ceded control of the money supply, the rate at which prices were rising fell from a high of 5,000percentt a year to less than 10percentt.
Mrs. May, who was forced to argue for her plan in a croaking voice because of a head cold, has essentially ceded control of events to Parliament, at least for now, with important votes coming on whether to bar a no-deal Brexit and whether to request the extension, something many analysts say is now inevitable.
Under the notification program, the FDA has essentially ceded the task of assessing the safety of a food additive to the manufacturer that makes and sells the additive.
Until Garamba acquired a helicopter, a few years back, the northern two-thirds of the park had essentially been ceded to Kony's forces.
Blair kept control of foreign policy and key areas such as education, but essentially ceded economic policy and much of the domestic agenda to Brown, who has become the longest-serving chancellor since the 1820s.
This criticism perhaps reflects Sony's most intractable problem over the last decade: its difficulty building strong businesses online, whether in digital music, in which it essentially ceded the category to Apple, or in console gaming, in which Microsoft has come on strong.
The move essentially ceded the airwaves to Mr. Bush.
He also undercut Mr. Obama's so-called pivot to Asia and, critics said, essentially ceded the field to China, which was not part of the agreement.
The deal essentially ceded Thomson to the rival studio.
Obama lost here by 5 percentage points in 2008, a surprisingly close finish since he essentially ceded the state after Labor Day.
