Sentence examples for one's possession from inspiring English sources

If we carry the reasoning in Mencius and Xunzi one step further, we see the need to protect a space in which they may speak freely without fear of suppression, and hence a derive a right in the "thin" sense of what one has whenever one has justifiable claims on others to assure one's possession of things or one's exercise of certain capacities.

If one defines a right rather thinly as what one has whenever one has justifiable claims on others to assure one's possession of things or one's exercise of certain capacities, then one can plausibly argue that there is a common notion of rights between the Chinese and Western traditions (Wong, 2004).

Mr. Simmons first entered the fray on May 8, when he attended a rally to protest the 30th anniversary of the passage of the drug laws, which impose long mandatory minimum sentences based on the weight of drugs in one's possession rather than on the role one played in a drug-dealing operation.

It is an offence to carry, or have in one's possession or under one's control in a security area without lawful excuse, any firearm, ammunition or explosive without lawful authority.

Although the normative notion of evidence cannot simply be identified with the indicator notion, we would expect the two to be closely linked, inasmuch as one's possession of normative evidence frequently depends upon one's awareness that one thing is indicator evidence of something else.

Many Evidentialists (Locke, Hume, and Clifford, for example) add the condition that the amount of evidence in one's possession must be proportioned to one's degree of belief, and that one should only firmly believe on the basis of "sufficient" evidence (where "sufficient" involves the evidence being strong enough for the belief to count as knowledge if true).

"It is not one person, one group, one family's possession," Galantucci said.

The anuvratas are vows to abstain from violence, falsehood, and stealing; to be content with one's own wife; and to limit one's possessions.

For many other almost-90-year-olds (she'll be 90 in June), letting go of one's possessions is the beginning of the end.

In the absence of a procedure for returning items confiscated by airlines inspectors, the constitutional guarantee of security in one's possessions is gone (photographs by Susan E. Evans, Feb. 10).

Two sleek "Superbox" cupboards, from circa 1966 and 1970 (each meant to house the entirety of one's possessions within its striped laminate exterior), share a room with an Egyptian shabti box, from the eleventh century B.C., and a Donald Judd stack, from 1968.