Matters of possession become almost existential, rather than empirical, questions, and, in the end, referees' snap decisions in real time seem no less correct than the ones they make after deliberation.
For Fermor, the act of writing was itself a matter of creative possession.
It seems to be simply a matter of patriotic possession to them, rather than any great love of art.
The only thing we do know is that, as Anne Fadiman writes in her cross-cultural classic about a medical drama among the Hmong community in Central California, "When The Spirit Catches You, You Fall Down," to one person it's a clear case of epilepsy, to another a matter of spirit possession.
Affections are not things and persons never can become possessions, matters of ownership.
Ireland dominated every statistic except the one that mattered, enjoying 71 percent of possession and 77 percent of territory.
Lib Dem Home Office minister Norman Baker, who signed the foreword of the report along with Home Secretary Theresa May, said jailing people for "a matter of weeks" for possession of Class B or C drugs was a "nonsensical approach".
We can read the inventory of Margrieta van Varick as a matter-of-fact list of old possessions -- or as a kind of Mother's Day card from three hundred years ago.
So on any view, even if there was no robbery or burglary, there was a serious matter concerning possession of a firearm".
"I've always felt that in matches likely to be settled by the odd goal, it is the quality and location of possession that matters.
