Senate voting reform had stopped preference deals which were "essentially undisclosed" and allowed candidates to be elected with less than 0.5% of votes.
Instead, they sat in rapt attention at Mr. Clinton's town-hall-style events, which were essentially mini lectures on public affairs.
In Co. Wexford and Co. Tipperary I was given recipes for "grated cakes in the pan", both of which were essentially pan boxty.
Mr. Ould-Abdallah called those six months, which were essentially the only epoch of peace most Somalis have tasted for years, Somalia's "golden era".
The 1965 act itself was important in addressing the overt prejudice towards minority communities (unlike later amendments, which were essentially empty gestures).
"I had produced some music in Paris which were essentially cut-ups of pop music, William Burroughs- style, which seemed to absolutely fit the images".
People were opposed to the old Soviet system, from the feudal republics in Central Asia to the Baltics, which were essentially part of Europe.
Along with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, Spike also performed the shows, which were essentially little plays involving about a dozen regular characters.
The vegetarian restaurant specializing in quinoa bowls is a modern take on the early-20th-century trend of Automats, which were, essentially, room-size vending machines.
Mr. de Montebello also said that an an exact description might be irrelevant for works of this period, which were essentially manufactured.
All types of instrumental forms were performed by ensembles except for the prelude and the toccata, which were essentially keyboard works.
