Sentence examples for given possession of from inspiring English sources

"Has your team even been given possession of these?" asked Wilcox, "No" replied Sebire.

There was a great rivalry between the two outfits over which could handle more tonnage, and every month the winner was given possession of a flag.

The son was given possession of his father's lands and titles on 16 February 1299.

At one point Óláfr, who had been given possession of Lewis, complained to Rögnvaldr that his lands were not enough.

On the April 5 episode of Raw, DiBiase was given possession of the Million Dollar Championship and access to a trust fund by his father.

The committee is required to consider the objections and any grounds against the objections put forward by the person given possession of the property, and make recommendations to the Minister.

The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 to end the war and gave possession of parts of New France to Great Britain, including Canada and the eastern half of French Louisiana lying between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains.

We are used to being given: go and do this, it's good for you…But to be treated like someone with a free will and being given the possession of the facts, we don't get treated like that very often in public life.

Nor can it afford a civil war between disappointed fundamentalists and disappointed nationalists -- particularly given its possession of nuclear weapons.

Warnings and on-the-spot fines are sometimes given for possession of drugs.

Another definition is by Hutton (1996): An intellectual framework for examining what various parties to a decision should do given their possession of inadequate information and different objectives.