Homerists, like Platonists, found the book to be less than useful for the precise work of their own discipline; many classicists rejected outright Havelock's essential thesis that oral culture predominated through the 5th century.

That said, the essential thesis of your article is right.

A striking finding from the cross-country analyses - underscoring Madrick's essential thesis - is that growth tends to be faster in countries with a more even income distribution.

He finished with a triumphant statement of the essential thesis and turned to the doctor.

Is that your essential thesis, that non-representative democracy is the ideal your talking about?

This is the essential thesis of semantic externalism.

His essential thesis was that overpopulation can be seen as a threat to personal liberty and that the governments of developed countries deliberately encouraged unsustainable population growth as a form of political control.