Sentence examples for briefly possessed from inspiring English sources

In 1797 France briefly possessed it, and in 1809 it was taken by the British, who established a protectorate over the Ionian Islands by the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1815).

It felt like being briefly possessed by a demon, held under some thrall I could not escape.

Lindsey McKeon, who portrayed a Reaper briefly possessed by Azazel in "In My Time of Dying", also experienced the same problem.

It is starting gently to grieve me that I briefly possess this information.

This isn't to say that the three young leads don't get good lines: Bruce has some Gervaisesque material about what constitutes a proper "anecdote", but it's as if this essentially lumpen bloke has been briefly, supernaturally possessed by the ghost of a sophisticated comedy writer.

Briefly, insects possess highly branched, gas-filled tubes called tracheae ([10] and references therein), which connect the tissues to the outside air through small closeable valves called spiracles.

Briefly, telomeres possess an "anti-checkpoint" activity that can repress DNA damage signaling when they are adjacent to a DSB (Michelson et al. 2005) and can block the resection of the 5' DNA strand (Hirano and Sugimoto 2007).

Briefly, all the materials possessed the same OKO topology but had differing BET surface areas and micropore volumes in the ranges of 201 493 m2/g and 0.095 0.189 cm3/g, respectively.

Briefly, the catheter possesses a tip sensor allowing the measurement of the left ventricular pressure.

Another characteristic of DCB is that, as already mentioned briefly, DCB interestingly possesses a putative tyrosine-based endosomal sorting motif in its cytoplasmic tail like the DM molecules, although the position of this motif is different from those observed in the DM molecules (Additional file 10: Text S4E).

Briefly, one-hundred and four isolates (74.8%) possessed the blaTEM-1 allele, which was identical to the blaTEM-1 allele in E. coli (GenBank accession number AAR25033), and 30 (21.6%) of isolates had an identical blaTEM-135 allele.