Last spring, she essentially stopped eating, became disoriented and could not sleep.

"We essentially stopped reading the papers," the prosecutor said today.

As a result, he essentially stopped throwing fastballs midway through the 1971 season.

From the mid-1930s on, he essentially stopped playing and was involved in several mining investments that, unfortunately, did not prove successful.

They were found in regions where star formation essentially stopped 15 billion years ago.

After Sept. 11, refugee resettlement essentially stopped as increased security measures were put in place.

The Buchanan program is essentially Stop the world, I want to get off.

You can essentially stop their lives by seizing their property.

On August 3, 2007, this secondary market essentially stopped trading most of the non-conforming securities.

And she essentially stopped coming to work and disappeared.