Sentence examples for human possession from inspiring English sources

To the extent that mind is manifested in observable phenomena, it has frequently been regarded as a peculiarly human possession.

I kid myself that art is some great universal human possession when in reality it is a luxury good for the super-rich.

Believing that mathematics is a common human possession, he explains each concept in nontechnical terms, relying heavily on analogies from daily life.

When they discover an ancient piece of Transformer technology in human possession, the Autobots soon learn of a human-robot conspiracy whose tendrils stretch back several decades, and which includes Richard Nixon, JFK, and the Apollo 11 astronauts (with "Buzz" Aldrin himself gamely traipsing out for a cameo).

And has David Hume's famous saying escaped them: that it is an absurdity to believe that the deity has one of the lowest of human possessions - a restless appetite for applause?

In many so-called "traditional" or fundamentalist religions, women and children are regarded as chattel or beasts of burden; the superiority of men, and their RIGHT to beat their human possessions goes unquestioned.

To speak with the gods, have relations with another human, take possession of another's territory, or eat this or that plant or animal involves man in a host of decisions upon which his existence depends.

Wallis engages in a life-and-death struggle with Old Dudley, a struggle that poses the themes of human love, possession and greed against the unsparing, harshly beautiful, brutally indifferent background of nature.

We discuss how the first humans took possession of Pampa and Patagonian regions during and after the last part of the continental extinction process.

This interdisciplinary approach of social and environmental agency has not been considered in the specialized bibliography so far; therefore novel information is given for interpreting the way in which humans took possession of the fauna, not only as subsistence resources but also as other important agents in the socio-economic and symbolic relationship of humans with the landscape.

In the case of Farage's breastfeeding proposals, this is simply a punishment for being a woman, and ostentatiously so, to boot, thus confirming yet again what hundreds of years of history has taught us: that being a human female in possession of a pair of tits is generally enough to put the cat among the pigeons for a certain genre of priggish, sexist busybody.