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The Lebanese army essentially is an internal security force.
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- 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.
- 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 -
BASH: And this essentially is a good will gesture, saying, I understand your concerns and I support -- actually, and fusing some money into the system in order to make it happen.
— CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2007 -
NGUYEN: So this essentially is the way for that company to make the money back because there was never a tour.
— CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009 -
His national security advisor told reporters here yesterday that in the end, this essentially is a choice; that other Security Council members have to choose between siding with the United States and siding with Saddam Hussein.
— CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2003 -
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
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