Sentence examples for possessed it for from inspiring English sources

So it shouldn't matter whether the man with the ball has possessed it for two seconds or two hours, it's his.

A thing can also be acquired if someone possesses it for a certain period of time as if he were the owner.

Ghane's cyanide was a chemical weapon, the prosecutors claimed, and possessing it for a non-peaceful purpose — even if his purpose was only to harm himself — was illegal under the law.

The world will know it, our children will tell it and our grandchildren will possess it for years to come!

Donald Cheatham and his wife Jennifer were charged in the Butte County Superior Court on felony counts of cultivating marijuana and possessing it for sale.

In 1408, anyone who possessed it could be tried for heresy.

Yet there's no question that dual citizenship poses practical problems both for those who possess it and for the government.

The sensation of it, smooth and warmed and resistant in the hand, came to be an end in itself, a real pleasure; and whoever didn't possess it yearned for it, until the moment arrived for another challenge.

Along the way, he adapted the ancient myths of earthly history, much as Wagner did in his "Ring" cycle: the ring of evil, the rivalrous murders over its power, the dangers for all who possess it and the need for its apocalyptic destruction.

In a society that runs on the maxim that a person should be rewarded for the desirable abilities they possess, it makes little sense for college football players playing in profitable programs to be penalized for capitalizing on their talent, while the institutions they play for unabashedly do so.

This book was declared blasphemous by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and one could be condemned for being a heretic and get the death penalty for possessing it.