Sentence examples for had not possessed from inspiring English sources
Elected in 1950 in Turkey's first free elections, Menderes was a secularist but demonstrated a tolerance for religious practice that his predecessors had not possessed.
But it would have been impossible if the country's entrepreneurs had not possessed the sort of work ethic that drove the captains of Victorian industry.
It is one of those endings that reformulates everything that has gone before, giving it a final power it had not possessed before its ending.
This resulted in a mad scramble to be first online with secrets that would never have leaked so quickly if WikiLeaks had not possessed the documents to begin with.
It is even possible that, if that feeling had not possessed me, I should have run up sooner to her room and might have prevented her drinking the prussic acid.
WASHINGTON — After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, top Democratic senators geared up to exercise a power they had not possessed since the Clinton years: recommending nominees for key federal posts in their states.
They hadn't possessed many weapons, but even the presence of scattered gunmen had been enough to justify the crackdown in the eyes of most Egyptians, who didn't expect much from their police in terms of restraint.
Advancing age and, let's be truthful, whiskey's manacles, would slow Sunny down, and he gradually passed stewardship of the bar to his wife, Tone, while he retreated to his room upstairs, taking up brush and pen and pencil with a zeal he hadn't possessed in many years.
But years after the furor over Phair had died down, I gave "Whip-Smart" another listen, and I was able to evaluate it with the kind of detachment I hadn't possessed when it first arrived.
After all, would Washington have committed itself quite so fully to the Greater Middle East if it hadn't possessed all that oil so vital to our consumption-driven way of life?
