In an address at the Commonwealth Club, in September, 1932, F.D.R. urged "statesman and businessman" alike to recognize that "our government … owes to everyone an avenue to possess himself of a portion of that plenty sufficient for his needs, through his own work".
Our government formal and informal, political and economic, owes to every one an avenue to possess himself of a portion of that plenty sufficient for his needs, through his own work".
That means it is ethical for a prosecutor, according to the ABA, to ask a jury to pronounce a defendant guilty with a degree of certainty that the prosecutor may not possess himself.
Sime wrote of Reed's particular empathy with the young: "He possessed in himself the healthy freshness of heart of boyhood ... and could place himself sympathetically at the boy's standpoint in life".
When he mounts his rocking horse he becomes a child possessed, imagining himself in a real horse race and infallibly predicting the winner.
Attendances at the church were small until, during one of the services, Prince acted as if he was possessed, throwing himself around the church.
According to Wells's own brief, slightly ashamed account in the Postscript, he "never found any great charm in Rosamund", but "she talked of love and how her father's attentions to her were becoming unfatherly", so he decided to protect her from incest by possessing her himself.
(Freud himself possessed over 4,000 antiquities, many of which look distinctly phallic).
By claiming not to have the power he undeniably possessed, he kept himself from getting murdered.
The dictator himself, possessed by paranoia, was too scared to come out onto Red Square.
