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The Lebanese army essentially is an internal security force.

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  1. By reason of natural constitution; in essence: as, minerals and plants are essentially different. That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. Malvolio is not essentially ludicrous. Lamb, Old Actors. We cannot describe the time of an event except by reference to some other event, or the place of a body except by reference to some other body. All our knowledge, both of time and place, is essentially relative. Clerk Maxwell, Matter and Motion, art. xviii.
  2. In an essential manner or degree; in effect; fundamentally: as, the two statements do not differ essentially. In estimating Shakespeare, it should never be forgotten that, like Goethe, he was essentially observer and artist, and incapable of partisanship. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 152.

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  • The Lebanese army essentially is an internal security force. —  CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2006
  • Which essentially translates as anyone who lives in the house of the European citizen in the country from which they are moving, regardless of their nationality (which paraphrases Articles 2 & 3 of the directive). —  Foreign Perspectives
  • JIM DALEY, EDITOR IN CHIEF, EDUTOPIA: This essentially is an attempt by an American entrepreneur to create the -- the fastest and most widespread wireless network throughout the -- throughout the entire continent of Africa, but focused on and based in Rwanda. —  CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007
  • Syria essentially is a government trying to downplay its relationship with Hezbollah maintaining support. —  CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2006
  • Many, many cruise missiles out there in the Arabian Sea on various platforms, submarines, on destroyers, and this essentially is a flight that is well within the range of a cruise missile, a range of about 1,000 miles. —  CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2001
 

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