Sentence examples for has not possessed from inspiring English sources

The Vatican has not possessed any such magic verbal wand to control secular governments for many centuries and had lost even the papal states by the end of the 19th century.

A nation that has not possessed identity cards since 1952 will, in a step, acquire the world's most complex system.At the heart of the scheme is a national identity register, which will record basic personal details: name, sex, date and place of birth, address, nationality, immigration status and the numbers of documents such as driver's licences and passports.

The FA have not possessed a technical director in recent years.

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.

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.

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.

But it appeared that the company had not possessed one in many months, according to a security official in Baghdad, but had begun work on getting one in spring of 2007.

Orson spent three years with his father, three years which might have got him down for good if he had not possessed a philosophic temperament and a strong constitution.

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.

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.