Chief Raoni and his people have, essentially, played by our rules.
Drawn matches at the start of tournaments tend to conjure up more questions than answers, especially when a team have essentially played well for long periods only to be undone at the last.
Because it skips the title screen and save game selection it seems like someone must have essentially played through the game to this point (or more likely edited the values in game RAM) and then walked to the classic starting point and made a save state that automatically loads when you start or reset the game.
I had essentially played baseball my entire life.
For the past two years, Ms. Rice has spent much of her time educating the former president's son about world affairs and has essentially played the role of quarterback on his team of campaign foreign-policy advisers.
The American team also have five rookies, Chad Campbell, Fred Funk, Kenny Perry, Chris Riley and Chris DiMarco, with the first three of those having essentially played their way into the team during the 2003 season, the US team being determined over a two-year period against the European 12 months.
Comparing the styles of the two sides, Douglas Reid, an aviation specialist at Queen's University business school in Kingston, Ontario, said that "Li has essentially played within the rules," while Cerberus has taken a more aggressive and more typically American approach, which he summed up as, "If you don't win the first time, change the law and try a second time".
Returning from the show after the entire thing had essentially played itself out made me feel like an alien on my own planet.
After the spring congressional season of passing some good laws faded into the public's distant memory, the Democrats have essentially been playing a single hand ever since -- healthcare reform.
If you have ever found yourself stuck at a dinner table in the company of a married couple with a long list of petty differences and no compunction about airing them publicly, you have essentially seen the play, which is performed without much amplifying emotional detail by Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston under the autopilot direction of Jim Simpson.
Meanwhile, Seattle have not had the luxury of even entertaining self-doubt, so all-hands-on-deck has their succession of 90 minute battles been — it's not much of a stretch to suggest they've essentially been playing playoff soccer since July.
