The personality episode hinges on the question of whether, essentially, an interviewee serving time for a rape conviction is a bad person, and what the idea of being a bad person even means.
When asked whether (essentially) she could promise that there would be no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil during her term, she wisely didn't try to overpromise and instead hit the point of not letting people on the terrorist watch list have access to guns.
It remains debatable whether Theodoret's Christological theory ever evolved into an orthodox view or whether it essentially reduced itself to a Nestorian, dualist analysis of Christ.
But it remains to be seen whether an essentially liberal appeal for government support of health care — especially one emanating from New York — would be as effective in other parts of the country as it has been in New York.
The preliminary results are raising fascinating questions not only about whether exercise can help to combat the disease but also — and of broader import — whether intense, essentially forced workouts affect brains differently than gentler activity does, even in those of us who are healthy.
Again, whether love essentially involves a distinctive kind of evaluation, and if so how to make sense of that evaluation, is hotly disputed.
"The issue is whether mortgages essentially drive the income statement as they do at Wachovia or Washington Mutual," says Bove. "Banks only need to control costs, avoid bad loans and stay out of business they don't understand," he notes.
From my perspective, the challenge for a paper such as this is whether it is essentially a historical piece, or whether it may lead to new experimental study on the origin of life.
She questions, too, whether feminism has essentially created a backlash among men – whether brutal rap lyrics and strict Islamic dress codes and violence against women are all essentially male reactions to women asserting themselves.
Only time will tell whether these are essentially presentational concessions by the chancellor or whether they are substantive.
The players' argument for the injunction hinges on Nelson's opinion about whether the players properly renounced their labor rights in favor of their antitrust rights: essentially, whether Nelson believes the decertification of the union was legitimate, as players contend, or a sham bargaining tactic, as owners argue.
