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"Pearl Harbor was, essentially, not a surprise," he said.

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

While Marino's resignation will delight his critics – and there are many who believed that he was essentially not competent to manage the Eternal City – it also comes at a difficult time for Rome.

Rezendes said, "What was significant to us in that story was not only the abuse, and the notion of a priest accusing another priest of abuse, but the fact that the bishop in that case was essentially not giving the priest the time of day".

"I was essentially not allowed to seek mental health care or any help at all".

There's a theory that suggests that one of the reasons Winston Churchill managed to guide Britain through the war was because he was essentially not of sound mind.

"I'm essentially not looking to change the thing I'm already interested in," he said.

"I want to be happy, but I'm essentially not," he said.

We have been saddled with a project where significant costs are essentially not funded".

"We are essentially not punk anymore, because punk bands don't have lawyers," said Mr. Cox, who also manages the band.

The calcareous (i.e., calcium-containing) internal skeleton of the echinoderms is simply constructed but is essentially not far different from the much more elaborate bones of vertebrates.