Sentence examples for cannot be possessed from inspiring English sources

But a service is not a physical object and cannot be possessed.

In the District, realistic-looking toy or air-powered guns cannot be possessed in public.

But large or small, the bodies of movie stars cannot be possessed.

For Terry Teachout, if art cannot be possessed, like a book in one's hands or a performance in one's presence, then it falls short of classic status ["Things We Can't Miss, and Things We Can't Forget," May 20].

The mystic St John of the Cross proposed that "the soul cannot be possessed of the divine union, until it has divested itself of the love of created beings".

This was the throne, or the footstool, or the container of the tablets of the law, of an always invisible God, who cannot be represented, who cannot be possessed and contained, who is where he is not.

Even though phosphorus-32 cannot legally be possessed without a Health Department license for radioactive materials, the Health Department has not referred the case to prosecutors or the police, preferring to wait for the university to continue with its inquiry, Ms. Mullin said.

A right to free speech cannot properly be possessed by an entity incapable of speech.

God has life, so eternity in this sense cannot also be possessed by abstract ideas or numbers.

Descartes claimed that rationality in the sense of having the power "to act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act" cannot possibly be possessed by a purely physical device: "The rational soul … could not be in any way extracted from the power of matter … but must … be expressly created" (1637/1970: 1637/1970

Cannabis has been classed as a schedule 1 drug, meaning it is thought to have no therapeutic value and cannot be lawfully possessed or prescribed.