Next, Dent will be tested by the hottest player on Tour, sixth-seeded LLEYTON HEWITT.... AMÉLIE MAURESMO, seeded sixth, is searching to find the form she possessed before her devastating first-round loss at the French Open.
Just a few years ago, as McMurtry notes in "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" and "Roads," heart surgery and a soul-deep depression deprived him not only of all zest for life but seemed to shear away many of the memories and qualities of being that he felt he had possessed before.
With his team now headed to New Orleans, and with sports reporters eager to lap up each player's every word, had he just been handed a louder megaphone than he'd ever possessed before?
By contrast, the narcotics laws of all fifty states, Canada, and Mexico all specify that a person must he proved to have known he possessed a drug before he can be convicted of possessing it — a point that Mr. Wildes stressed in his brief — and British law has since been similarly amended.
Although Otlet spent his entire working life in the age before computers, he possessed remarkable foresight into the possibilities of electronic media.
Claiming he possessed fetal omniscience of the world before he was born, he discourses with complete authority about his relatives' past, limning their secrets and their dreams while pointing out coincidences and parallels in their lives, like an old-fashioned storyteller privvy to the playful machinations of the gods.
Not only had he doubled the navy's fighting strength, but he had given it what it had never possessed before and what it never again lost a great administrative tradition of order, discipline, and service.
When, after a year, Themistocles returned to the king's court, he appears to have made an immediate impact, and "he attained...very high consideration there, such as no Hellene has ever possessed before or since".
Make sure you know what they possess before you get in with them because the law treats you as though you are responsible for what's around you.
