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A neighborhood barbecue is essentially what we've put together. We wanted it to be a neighborhood thing since the accident happened in the neighborhood.

Shawn Christopherson

This is essentially a giant purchasing pool. It's not a lot more than that.

Dan Thompson

Essentially, this bridge has reached its life expectancy.

Rob Morosi

We're essentially at the home stretch.

Mark Lee

I cut [some] out of salaries because I didn't want to eliminate the materials budget altogether - that's what it essentially would have done otherwise.

Rosann Sanders

So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you.

Louis Aronne

All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Henry R. Luce

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

Mark Edwards

Essentially the same men who would be candidates for a prostate surgery are also candidates for radiation therapy.

Paul Barrett

We will review that videotape. I don't think in the end it will change the cause and manner of death, and essentially that what our job is.

John Linehan

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Gilbert Highet

It's essentially analogous to putting a PC in your bathtub. It's not going to work once it dries.

Jim Gerace

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Tracy Kidder

The plan is essentially as expected, meaning not terribly aggressive.

Rob Hinchliffe

We always ask them why. They were essentially fishing for something that was not in the published photo. But the core of what they wanted was in the published photo.

Marcus Donner

It ended up being essentially a she-said, he-said.

Steve Wagstaffe

These are groups that want out-of-control spending, want essentially socialism.

Bob Beers

We essentially already have state and county laws, and the county seems to be doing a credible job with the problem.

Frank Walker

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

This is essentially a lockdown on freedom of expression.

Amy Domini

All of that has just beaten the road down to nothing, essentially.

Nicole Maxey

They've essentially been found guilty before even going to court.

Jocelyn Mccalla

They essentially are the MP3 market.

Barry Jaruzelski

We essentially reversed the T.O. decision for any future cases.

Richard Berthelsen

Essentially it was a means to create enhanced service capability for financial institutions.

Dan Mcintyre

What he was interested in is the concept, and the concept is essentially to shock.

Robin Smith

Essentially this is a 0-0 tie. None of my guys were playing when they scored.

Bryan Davis

If you are confirmed, you will essentially disappear from public view.

Russell Feingold

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

Michael Schudson

We're essentially one signature away from building this airport.

Rick Bryant

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Dan Brown

This defense is not used often, ... I think it's a defense that's disavowed. ... Essentially, (the defense attorneys) have to convince a jury that they have the better case than we do.

Michael Ferguson

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Essentially Phone.com is like the Netscape of the Internet.

Mark Mckechnie

We just have to start doing things right. Essentially, we're our worst enemies.

Patrick Smith

Delphi has essentially said: 'We need competitive wages.' Those wages currently are being set in China, not Flint, (Michigan).

Harley Shaiken

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Steve Stifano

I think that a [one-year] moratorium could be put in place in both directions. It essentially allows those relationships to cool off a bit.

Kathay Feng

Essentially, Nazi hunting ends with him.

Marvin Hier

It's essentially just a big hose.

Jim Mcnerney

Buyers are essentially picking from approximately 225 different design combinations.

Howard Shaffer

We essentially already have gaming. It's in our backyard, whether we want it or not. We are outsourcing these gaming jobs.

Debra Teufel

It's the way over-the-top stuff. Essentially, it's anything that simulates a sexual act.

Principal Karl Pallastrini

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

David Dearborn

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors.

Paul O'neil

The securities that were deposited ... were essentially of no value.

Michael Watson

They will be essentially an additional set of eyes and ears for the Pittsburgh police department.

Michael Edwards

It appears AMD has engaged in a price war, where it is essentially bidding against itself.

Charlie Glavin

We're a business that absolutely lives on utilities and essentially reselling utilities to our customers through the use of our facilities.

Brian Wallace

Essentially we're competing for worldwide exploration dollars.

Melanie Werdon

There was no meaningful consultation. They were essentially presented with a fait accompli.

Richard Lippes

It essentially would shut the county down. We would no longer be competitive.

Steve Pessagno

He essentially was panicked, and he couldn't talk right now because the family had escaped.

Rudy Provencio

We definitely deserved punishment. We didn't deserve what was essentially the death penalty.

Steve Rodriguez

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Anthony Bourdain

The Bureau of Land Management has essentially become the bureau of oil and gas development.

Dave Alberswerth

He was essentially a teacher. A very popular, good teacher.

John Sanders

Essentially the client list is what the foreign company wants.

Richard Herring

She believed it was her obligation to pay off (the debt), ... She was essentially a sex slave for the defendant.

Jeanine Pirro

Essentially, we have two cooling blankets, ... And what we do is put one on the bottom of the patient, and we have one on top.

Camilo Gomez

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Tom Hanks

Essentially, he's kidnapped in Mexico and brought to Houston.

Randy Schaffer

We're talking about the contents of essentially your telephone bill.

Tom Collier

Zero elevation (or 'sea level') on Mars is essentially the planet's average elevation.

Carol Hughes

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Michael Ratner

It's essentially a guillotine. It's really important that we fix this before we can use the mobile transporter.

Kirk Shireman

Essentially, that was a wash-out aggravated by Hurricane Ivan.

Jim Struzzi

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

David Whitehead

Essentially he was the only person, statistically, in the whole world who could have committed that crime.

Robert Kelly

Essentially all of the upside came from non-operating earnings that were better than Intel had indicated it would see.

Joseph Osha

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

Michael Vickers

Those are the barriers on both sides. Apart from that, the PUC essentially has complete authority to make (rate) adjustments.

Kevin Neely

Foster allegedly wheedled the victim into writing checks for Foster and Almeida's use. It's essentially a case of elder abuse.

Michael Healey

What is clear is that catastrophes cost more than they used to. It's a reflection, essentially, that these areas are more densely populated.

Michael Gannon

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

George Santayana

When you buy electricity from out of state ... you are essentially taking dollars out of your pocket and sending it to another state.

John Church

You have essentially seven decades when lotteries were essentially not allowed.

John Dinan

The first round of play will essentially be our practice round.

Debby King

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

David Moorcroft

We're essentially creating a card catalog.

David Drummond

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

William Hamilton

He began to see himself as essentially the savior of the kids.

John Lachance

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

Walter Lang

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

K. D. Lang

You essentially will have to 'socialize' your way into a network.

Travis Kalanick

It essentially to allow Voicestream to put antennas on top of the building.

Stephen Williams

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

This year, we're essentially doing the design of the whole five-year program.

Roelof Bruintjes

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Bruce Springsteen

What the fringe does is essentially function as a large-scale co-op.

Lawrence Kampf

The documented risks have essentially been an odyssey of discovery and much of this is fairly recent.

Nanette Wenger

It's a sneaky way of putting a tax on things, essentially.

Myron Ebell

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis

Essentially, it is doing classic social engineering.

Gregg Mastoras

Essentially, what the court found is that Mrs. King borrowed money from the clerk and she owed that money to the clerk.

William Walker

They've essentially done about half of what we believed was appropriate.

Tony Marshall

Making a difference is essentially the most interesting aspect of my job. I would like to apply my background to the Senate.

Paul Casey

These people are being served what is essentially frozen food.

Richard Cortell

The idea is to essentially ensure that when companies build new technologies, they build in the capability for police to do what they've always done on the previous technologies.

Alex Swann

Essentially, a parrot is a monkey with wings.

Joseph Garner

Earnings were essentially in line to mildly negative because of the adjustments.

Rob Haines

As Matt indicated, we essentially looked at the comments and asked which were complete and which were substantive.

Joseph Bridges

I am essentially a loner.

Lauren Bacall

We had essentially become a baby sitter.

Julie Hansen

They came in 1984 when we were essentially defunct and kept this place going. We had a good run with Holly.

Dana Leach

It was founded essentially on that 50 years ago.

Brian Doyle

Essentially zero. DuPont sees what we're doing as the right thing to do.

Bill Bailey

Essentially, what the bill is moving forward [to] is more flexibility, which is good.

Paul Regnier

She essentially confessed to a breach of the Sunshine Law.

Christopher Taylor

It's essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a dish at the bottom.

Thomas Demarse

The difficulty with the administration's position is that, at least as applied to U.S. citizens, it poses a threat to essentially anyone who the administration chooses to call an enemy combatant.

Mark Tushnet

There's a new needs-based test put into place on chapter 7 that will essentially eliminate most middle-class families from being eligible for bankruptcy.

Michael Gutter

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Gary Orfield

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Mark Chmura

Bryant is getting very close to 200 percent of its capacity, essentially another elementary school.

Steve Ayers

The response by Microsoft is essentially a meaningless response.

Joe Klein

Essentially, the smokers are being bribed: If you want to smoke, you have to gamble.

Cathy Burke

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science.

Cindy Cohn

He's essentially in the same condition that he has been in for the past few days. It's obviously a situation that needs to be corrected.

David Catalfamo

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Gustave Courbet

We essentially lost our lease on Carey.

Tom Jacobs

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Morton Feldman

They will essentially be based on seniority.

Tony Evans

Essentially, you spend the whole day eating.

Mignon Waterman

If you're not there, you're, essentially, not on the biotechnology landscape.

Jim Leonhart

We saw children who were essentially abandoned, starving, tied down to their beds.

Eric Rosenthal

He essentially did not answer the Roe v. Wade question.

Eleanor Smeal

This is my classroom essentially picked up from Wexford and dropped here.

Eric Royston