Sentence examples for our possessing from inspiring English sources

"What the C.I.A. has been saying about our possessing the bomb is correct," he was quoted as saying.

The free will defence maintains, in reply, that evildoing is a consequence of our possessing the freedom to do evil, which is, all things considered, good.

Thou art too dear for our possessing.

The value of a good will thus cannot be that it secures certain valuable ends, whether of our own or of others, since their value is entirely conditional on our possessing and maintaining a good will.

If it really is wrong in all cases to tell lies, as Aquinas and Grisez and Finnis have argued, our grasp of this moral truth is dependent on our possessing, or our being able to recognize the possessor of, practical wisdom.

Two different films were designed to test our hypothesis possessing their own unique properties.

We internalize events, people and ideas; we reflect, change our minds and misremember, possessing our pasts as a continuing part of our present.

In view of our results, when compared to other anticancer agents, our compound possesses a number of interesting properties.

Our sample size was dictated by the time and resources our centre possessed to perform the data extraction.

"I believe our players possess the character we recruited them for," he said.

These are desperately needed virtues of leadership that few, if any, politicians of our time possess.