Sentence examples for a common possession from inspiring English sources

Everything that had become a common possession and part of the way society worked is gone.

In his book "Cultural Amnesia," James declares that "the future of the humanities as a common possession depends on the restoration of a simple, single ideal: getting poetry by heart".

Home can be a common possession and all the components usually benefit from it if they live in the same household.

But the idea of the welfare state as an expression of an ethic of nationhood – captured so evocatively in Per Albin Hansson's idea of a "people's home" (folkhemmet), or in T.H. Marshall's claim that the welfare state rests on "a direct sense of community membership based on loyalty to a civilisation that is a common possession" (Marshall 1963: 96) - proved to be politically more effective.8.8

According to Ōhashi, in order for a group of thinkers to form a genuine "school" of philosophy, "there must be the common possession or formation of a thought" (Ōhashi 2004, 9).

Believing that mathematics is a common human possession, he explains each concept in nontechnical terms, relying heavily on analogies from daily life.

Legitimately but confusingly, family membership can be defined in different ways: in terms of descent from a common ancestor (homology) or in terms of the common possession of distinguishing features.

This close sisterhood between Larix and Pseudotsuga has been previously noted on the basis of their resemblance in seed proteins (Prager et al. 1976; Price et al. 1987) and common possession of derived characters such as nonsaccate pollen, an extremely modified micropylar apparatus during pollination, fiber sclerids in the bark, and similar asymmetric karyotypes (see review by Price 1989).

In this view, the Human Genome Project offered a careful, accurate analysis of the genome for the benefit of future investigators, while Venter's aim was simply a quick and dirty botch-up, its only purpose to gain commercial rights to something that should be the common possession of humanity.

The "one liberty of all men" and "common possession of all things" belong to the "demonstrations".

For whereas common possession of primitive character states (those present in the ancestor of the group) indicates overall group membership, relationships within the group are only specified by the common possession of derived character states.