Sentence examples for were essentially given from inspiring English sources

Under a 1920 treaty between France and Britain, the British were essentially given control over Iraq's oil reserves.

Elsewhere, as proxy fighters of the Northern Alliance or Pashtun tribes closed in on cities, deals were often made in which Taliban officials and fighters were essentially given their freedom.

The cast and crew were essentially given the day off, although, as it turns out, Mr. Creel said he thought that nearly everyone in front of the curtain and many who work behind it plan to go to Washington.

Voters were essentially given a choice between a semiauthoritarian government that has delivered economic development, albeit through ethnic-based political and economic policies, or a total change in leadership to a combative but untested opposition.

Instead, they were political cronies who were essentially given options to buy the grain at highly subsidized prices and then they sold those options to real millers for a huge profit, the audit found.

But the judge ruled that the circumstances did not meet the requirements for such a conviction, and jurors on Friday were essentially given two choices: convict Mr. Roeder of pre-meditated murder or send him home.

Peter Draper, a former official in the South African Department of Trade and Industry, put it more starkly: "We were essentially giving away the store without asking any critical questions, or protecting crucial policy space".

It only felt right then, since our subscribers were essentially giving us the privilege of entering their inboxes, to implement our belief to the best of our abilities.

I would argue that Mazzoni and Krakauer were essentially giving their participants another "invisible" target to aim for as we did for our experiment 4, and in that case, the new invisible target becomes the intended movement.

"These creditors are essentially given free rein," said Carolyn E. Coffey, a lawyer at MFY Legal Services.

Mr. Kernan was essentially given free rein, and inmate guides, at both prisons.