6 sentences with 'essentially'
Example sentences and phrases with the word essentially and other words derived from it.
• « Bureaucracy is essentially the substitution of rules in place of individual human decisions. That process, while often frustrating for the individuals caught up in it, has the effect of creating a more efficient set of processes than can be achieved by arbitrary decision-making. »
• « Mesopotamian cities always had walls, some of which were 30 feet high and 60 feet wide, essentially huge mounds of earth reinforced with bricks. »
• « Although Sparta could not take Athens on its own, Athens was essentially under siege for decades; life went on, but it was usually impossible for Athenians to travel overland in Greece outside their home region of Attica. »
• « Under the consuls was the Senate, essentially a large body of aristocratic administrators, appointed for life, who controlled the finances of the state. »
• « By then, however, the legal and social conditions of farmers had degenerated to the point where they were essentially serfs (known as colonists): unfree rural labourers, hardly better than slaves themselves. »
• « All lands were legally the king's, and his nobles received their lands as "fiefs", essentially loans from the crown that had to be renewed by payments on the death of a landowner before they could be inherited. »