Sentence examples for case of possession from inspiring English sources

It began when William Peter Blatty read about a case of possession in the paper.

Revolving around a case of possession by a dybbuk, or disembodied spirit, the novel anticipates Singer's later fascination with demons.

Add to these a fatal accident at the factory and a case of possession by the spirit of a recently deceased man.

THE LAST EXORCISM A preacher who's made a career of appearing to cast out devils (Patrick Fabian) agrees to expose himself as a fake for a documentary film — at which point he encounters his first authentic case of possession.

There's the bankrupt rajah, whose literary learning is no match for the British empire's canny brutality, the widow who flees her opium-addicted husband's funeral pyre, the agent whose schemes belie a perplexing case of possession, and the honourable second mate, whose mixed-race origins leave him a target for blackmail.

If, indeed, it is a case of possession, the first thing she does is assess the afflicted's "level of understanding and acceptance or encouragement of the alleged possession.

"In cases of possession of such a small quantity of drugs a caution is usually the outcome". She said that accepting the resignation would save money by ending the internal misconduct procedure.

Last month, the Discovery Channel announced "The Exorcist Files," a show that plans to pull the curtain from exorcism by presenting "real-life" cases of possession.

Police and the Crown Prosecution Service do not normally pursue cases of possession or supply involving small amounts of any drug, including ecstasy.

Finally, one of the most well-known cases of possession was that of 22-year-old Annelise Michel who underwent an exorcism in Germany in 1975, after she started hearing voices, eating insects and became repulsed by religious paraphernalia.

In Arcadia, the school district reports no assaults with a deadly weapon, five cases of possession of a weapon, and 14 narcotics arrests at middle and high schools between January 1988 and January 1989.