We were gaining possession and working the ball, and we executed and put our shots away".
In the N.B.A., a team has 24 seconds from gaining possession to take a shot.
(This increase indicates that a 'lolly-gag strategy,' in which a leading team in possession intentionally runs down the clock to prevent the trailing team from gaining possession, is a relatively rare occurrence).
Martinez kept playing, gaining possession as no whistle was blown.
p88 The region from which the stele came was Etruscan land until Veii was captured, and it is highly improbable that any Roman would have gone so far afield for a piece of stone no better than that which the native ledges could provide, unless either the Etruscans then possessed Rome, i.e., before 509, or the Romans had gained possession of the country beyond the Cremera, i.e., after 396.
Upon further review, officials determined that Sanders never gained possession of the ball before Hayward's hit.
12 1 Gaius Marius, even at this time, had Lucius Sulla associated with him as quaestor, as though the fates were trying to avoid subsequent events.34 He sent Sulla to King Boccus and through him gained possession of Jugurtha, about one hundred and thirty-four years before the present time.
A Palmdale shot bounced off a Burroughs defender and squirted to Torres, who gained possession of the ball and spun around before beating Whitecotton near the right post.
4 The latter, when he had gained possession of his person and had accused him before the members of the council, easily won a conviction and had him executed at once. 5 Then, gathering the army into one place, he appointed Orontobates, a Mede, satrap of Media, but he made Hippostratus general with an infantry force of thirty-five hundred mercenaries..
However soon after Wallace gained possession and ran towards Swansea's 25-yard line before kicking a drop goal in the strong wind to give the All Blacks a 4 3 lead.
