Sentence examples for if it possessed from inspiring English sources

During that time, CBS acted as if it possessed no news division.

With more Windexable surfaces than Studio 54, the room seemed as if it possessed a half-dozen Voltages, all smiling wildly at one another.

Last year, the F.D.I.C. released a remarkable paper, "The Orderly Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings Under the Dodd-Frank Act," which lays out how the agency would have saved Lehman if it possessed those new powers at the time of the collapse.

By 1997, Mr. Ritter's article says, "Iraq no longer possessed any meaningful quantities of chemical or biological agent, if it possessed any at all, and the industrial means to produce these agents had either been eliminated or were subject to stringent monitoring.

Furthermore, the CBCT views were discarded if the mandibular first premolar was affected by caries, had restorations, was subjected to severe attrition or fractured, and if it possessed an abnormal or dilacerated root.

A parallel text in Diogenes Laertius can be read in just this way: although a concept is not anything that exists and so does not possess qualities, it is nevertheless "as if" it were something that exists and "as if" it possessed qualities, "like the impression of a horse when none is present" (Diogenes Laertius VII 61).

Since any school is considered more efficient than the other schools within its grouping if it possesses a larger contextual attractiveness score, it now becomes possible to rank order the schools within each stratum by sorting these scores.

Each element t u (e i ) j represents the position of a TU in the TS interval during which node u i such that e i = (u i, v i ) must send a packet of flow f if it possesses any in its queue.

DMU q is viewed as a more attractive option than another DMU if it possesses a larger value for its contextual attractiveness measure H q ∗ ( d ).

In a rule described as the presence of motif X in a gene implies that the gene is a member of group Y, lift is the ratio of the posterior probability (the probability that the gene is in group Y if it possess motif X) to the prior probability (the probability of X possession, irrespective of the membership of Y).

Thus, logic and evidence suggest that Iraq can be contained, even if it possesses weapons of mass destruction.