"When you make an investment in a factory, you're essentially placing a bet on a manufacturing process that's not yet done, for products that are not yet designed, to sell into a market that is not yet there," said Chuck Mulloy, a spokesman for Intel's technology and manufacturing group.
By initiating a report card that defines what character is, and who has good character, KIPP middle school was essentially placing a rubric on how to lead a good life and in the process confining their students to one path towards integrity and success.
But Target Restock on its own couldn't leverage Google's voice computing platform, so Target is essentially placing its bets on Google.
"Galleries are essentially places for looking – and looking quietly," says British art historian David Buckman.
He thinks that the entire national-security bureaucracy, which was essentially set in place at the start of the Cold War, is incapable of dealing with the new threats and should be overhauled, so that the government can work faster to prevent conflicts or to intervene early.
The vast number of blocks found in modern times indicates that these constructions were essentially open places for worship like the earlier sun temples.
Gerri Walbert, the executive editor of Blades on Ice magazine, said the judges were niggling over a failed quarter turn on a jump, which was essentially what placed Nagasu in second instead of lifting her to first.
So you have this anomaly: The most urban symbol in the world, the Manhattan skyline, is going up when the population is spreading out and moving to what were essentially suburbs in places like Queens".
Armstrong's books had lower aims, and, for their author, they were essentially mercenary: a place for him to build a brand and tell his (partly false) side of a contentious story.
One of the sanctions was essentially to place the L.C.W.R. into receivership, with an archbishop and a couple of bishops vetting what it did and published, and asked to speak at its meetings.
