Sentence examples for it possessed as from inspiring English sources

To compensate for the temperature increase, the outer envelope expanded to many times the radius it possessed as a main sequence star.

It would be against the rules of bloodcurdling serial fiction to reveal what was happening behind the wall in that house on Barton Street – except to say that the dreadful world has space in it for the possessed, as well as the dispossessed.

More and more with each act of understanding it approaches the understanding of the universe of beings, a universe that is its universe, which it possesses as a capacity of its own nature.

But as used by its proponents today, the notion extends well beyond the idea that the United States is a singular country to suggest that it possesses, as the opening paragraph of the 2012 Republican platform put it, "a unique place and role in human history".

He was a man of his time, shaped by his upbringing, ambition and talent (it possessed him as much as he possessed it), as well as by the events he lived through.

Working on it possessed him as entirely as writing "Gray State" had.

It is believed to possess as much as one-sixth of Iraq's total petroleum reserves.

A remanent polarization of the PHB system was as large as 67 mC/m2 at 100 °C from a displacement field hysteresis loop, while it possessed pyroelectric coefficient as large as 20 μC/m2 K after a poling procedure.

Only SI protein was tested as it possessed biological activity as demonstrated by membrane ruffle experiments.

Overall the test statistics indicated that the test could reasonably separate candidates on the basis of ability (i.e. that it possessed acceptable criterion validity) as well as demonstrating construct validity.

T-47D was unique in that it possessed three times as many genomic losses as gains.