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  • Whatever-whoever-was waiting for her, it was es sential that she appear composed and in control.

    The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

  • Whatever-whoever-was waiting for her, it was es sential that she appear composed and in control.

    The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

  • "Your sunny faith in the es\-\expndtw0 sential goodness of human beings?"

    Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996

  • Since nature had “placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure,” it was es - sential that it not be placed under any other, but that it be free to determine its own destiny.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

  • There is a contradiction in his doctrine here: for he says theoretically that species is the object of science while individual differences are due to matter and are unknowable, but in practice he brings to scientific account many characters that are below specific level — not only family likeness but ines - sential attributes such as coloration and voice.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas D. M. BALME 1968

  • In this primitive sense some form of exclusive personal property is es - sential to human life.

    PROPERTY WOLFGANG G. FRIEDMANN 1968

  • Some characters are essential, some not (for instance, the eye may be essential, and an eye must have a color, but its actual color is ines - sential and imprecise).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas D. M. BALME 1968

  • Taken as a maxim of method, Non saltus is perhaps compatible with uniformitarianism but surely not es - sential to it.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RULON WELLS 1968

  • It has led to a formal clarification of Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic OUT OF MY LATER YEARS 45 field; in particular it has led to an understanding of the es - sential oneness of the electric and the magnetic field.

    Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

  • Both are es - compromise is nearly impossible. sential, but the two agendas are different.

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