Sometimes, even in the middle of a carpet pitch, he would bolt to his car, possessed by a need to "look for Alan" around town.
Desperate to conquer Constantinople, Simeon planned a large campaign in 924 and sent envoys to the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, who possessed a powerful navy which Simeon needed.
In Abydos, this quality remained unchanged by deep time — human beings seemed to possess an eternal need to acquire and then conspicuously spend their wealth, whether by shooting it into the air or burying it underground.
This result indicates a tendency among these participants to view evolutionary processes as deterministic in nature with improvement as its goal, i.e., because species possess an inner need to evolve, evolution must always result in improvement.
For me, there was a gradual realization that many around me seemed to possess an instinctive need and I just... didn't.
In any case, salmon and other migratory fish can't be farmed organically because they possess an innate need to swim long distances and migrate between fresh and seawater.
But Ellsberg, as he candidly portrayed himself in a memoir called "Secrets" (Viking, 2002), possessed an uncommon, self-righteous need as both a hawk and then a dove to propel himself to the front ranks of warriors and resisters.
Because coins are now issued only as token money for domestic purposes, they no longer need possess a high intrinsic value, and low-standard silver or certain base-metal alloys provide all the qualities required.
Many of them possess a networked nature and need to be processed and analysed as graph structures.
They may not have an organic disease, but they do possess an alarming psychic need to consult physicians and weave complex tales of phantom aches and pains.
