Sentence examples for possess place from inspiring English sources

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Andrew King, professor of neurophysiology at Oxford university, said the discovery that neurons in the hippocampus possess "place fields" that fire when an animal is in a particular part of its environment had "revolutionised our understanding of how the brain knows where we are and is able to navigate within our surroundings".

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Didn't I possess places to go? Wasn't I a fellow who once might have been slightly in the know?

The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places.

The journey to Venice, toward the end of "In Search of Lost Time," recapitulates what's been a major theme in Proust's novels: people arouse the most passion when they are not possessed, places the most passion when they are not visited.

And so he promised at his inauguration to do everything in his power to "hold, occupy and possess" the property and places belonging to the Federal government that lay in Confederate territory.

However, Lincoln had pledged himself "to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the Government". It would be fatal to the prestige of his administration to start by going back on his word, and evacuation might seem a virtual recognition of the Confederacy.

The power confided to me, will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion no using of force against, or among the people anywhere.

Stevens did not agree, and the congressman was "undoubtedly pleased" by Lincoln's statement in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861 that he would "hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the Government".

Let the spirit of the place possess you.

And according to Talent Smart, 90% of high performers in the work place possess high EQ, while 80% of low performers have low EQ. Simply put, your emotional intelligence matters.

TKLs from mosses, algae and cyanobacteria all possess aspartate in place of the phosphoserine even though the adjacent residues are quite conserved.

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