O'Neal, who signed an $88.5 million extension last fall, is essentially locked in for the next six seasons.

Patients will not be essentially locked into one system, as they are in Canada, but only those who can afford it are likely to leave the world of managed care.

As a result, minority and lower-income groups are essentially locked into rigidly segregated neighborhoods.

This rate is essentially locked in for five years, and is intended to invite competition from new providers.

Both stone and concrete fire pits are very heavy and are essentially locked in to wherever they are placed.

The Americans and the insurgents are essentially locked in a stalemate there, and some officers have long complained that the effort in the west is understrength.

As a result, Terayon was essentially locked out of the United States, the world's largest and most lucrative market for cable modems and servers.

Now, Worf realized, the cat was essentially locked in with him.

The brain is essentially locked in a piece of immobile meat.

Then came the 2005 energy bill, which essentially locked in the old incentives for five more years.