What's the difference between cornerstone and essential?

Cornerstone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
  • (2) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
  • (3) The chancellor's position was not helped by the centre right Centre for Policy Studies which argued in a pamphlet on Monday that he would struggle to meet his deficit reduction plan, the cornerstone of the government's economic strategy.
  • (4) The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, who has said the passage of the bill in the autumn will be “hell” for the government, said: “The charter of fundamental rights is a cornerstone of what makes Britain what we are.
  • (5) A "cornerstone" of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
  • (6) But there, stuck behind a glass case in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and having already failed to take off from the shelves of department stores in the United States, Richard Joseph saw what was to become the cornerstone of a new family venture – a chopping board.
  • (7) Adequate tissue oxygenation is the cornerstone of therapy.
  • (8) Conventional diets and increased exercise are the cornerstones of traditional therapy for obesity, but available data suggest that the most important component of any program is the associated behavior modification through which new ways of dealing with old problems can be learned and continually applied.
  • (9) Liberal irrigation and elevation of the injured part are also cornerstones of therapy.
  • (10) If there’s one thing Apple told investors clearly, it’s that the iPhone is still the cornerstone to the success of the Apple Empire.
  • (11) She sees the character as "tough, intelligent, delightfully daffy and yet a moral cornerstone for a lot of deviant behaviour".
  • (12) The fear is palpable in this place.” A cornerstone of the reforms is a restructuring around more than a dozen thematic “global practices” like health or trade, instead of regional teams.
  • (13) Continuous improvement is a cornerstone to this new look at quality.
  • (14) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
  • (15) Computed tomography is recommended as the cornerstone in the initial radiographic evaluation of growing or painful lipomatous soft tissue masses of the extremities.
  • (16) Conservative treatment is the cornerstone of management and is effective in more than two-thirds of patients, making surgical treatment necessary in only a minority of instances.
  • (17) From analyses of the effectiveness of beta-blocker monotherapy in relation to the patient's age and to pre-treatment renin determinations an antihypertensive drug program is proposed in which beta-blockers form the cornerstone.
  • (18) Dutton is furious that Triggs linked their deaths to the Coalition’s boat turnback measure, a cornerstone of its hardline Operation Sovereign Borders policy.
  • (19) The prevention of the occurrence and recurrence of PCP is a cornerstone in the treatment of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
  • (20) Cornerstones of these development are the foundation of the Society for Medical Radiology in 1954, the continuous increase of the numbers of examinations until 1974, the significantly increased availability of modern imaging methods since 1985 and the introduction of special training courses for physicians in the fields of diagnostic radiology, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine in 1988.

Essential


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
  • (a.) Hence, really existing; existent.
  • (a.) Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
  • (a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
  • (a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
  • (a.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (3) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (4) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (5) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
  • (6) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
  • (7) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
  • (8) Most cis AB sera have anti-B activity, essentially at 4 degrees C. In saliva A and H substances are found in normal amounts but B substance is only evidenced by inhibition of autologous cells agglutination.
  • (9) Treatment with trypsin gave essentially one radioactive peptide, the active site peptide, of approximately 2300 molecular weight.
  • (10) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
  • (11) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
  • (12) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (13) No other essential regulatory sequence is located further upstream.
  • (14) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
  • (15) Ovarian vein sampling for androgen was essential in locating this patient's microscopic tumor.
  • (16) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
  • (17) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (18) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
  • (19) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
  • (20) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.