Sentence examples for possessed down from inspiring English sources

If things went wrong, creditors could come after them for everything they possessed, down to their cufflinks, and have them imprisoned if they failed to pay.

Jess Glynne, who's supplanted Jessie J as the nation's lung-bursting poptronica empress, has still to master the art of stage presence – a quality possessed down to the last atom by Sia.

Judgment against ourselves in the moments where we should be delighting in our own beauty and magnificence blocks the endless enthusiasm and joy we all possess, deep down, for the adventures and service to others we were put on this planet to carry out.

He also possesses a down-to-earth directness that cuts through elaborate protocol and Japanese manners.

"We've had some ideas paraded before us in magnificent clothes that the emperor does not possess," Mr. Downs declared.

Charles wandered across the platform like a man possessed, breathing down the necks of his musicians, shrieking orders, goading his men until they expressed the visions in his head.

Abbott told the Russian leader of the evidence Australia possessed on the downing of MH17.

No evidence has emerged that the church itself abused Child B. One leader of Britain's Angolan community said several churches practising exorcisms and accusing children of being possessed should be closed down: "In our community the pastor is like god.

Before the first performance of "Nightfall," Mr. Schiff was still trying to figure out whatever possessed him to turn down a slew of lucrative movie offers, not to mention a Caribbean holiday with his wife and two children (6 years and 10 months), to do a play for three weeks -- at such a price.

At 37 years old, he no longer runs well and lacks the remarkable bat speed he once possessed, often being mowed down by power pitchers who challenge him inside.

The photocatalytic activities of these g-C3N4 samples were found to linearly correlate with their valance band (VB) maximum potentials; for example, H2O2-NH4Cl-g-C3N4 possessed a VB maximum down-shifted by 0.34 eV, and consequently exhibited 7.1 times larger photocatalytic hydroquinone degradation rate than the bulk g-C3N4.