Sentence examples for possessed it would from inspiring English sources

A successful stay-at-home in the face of these odds would be impressive evidence of an organising ability that Union Africans have not so far possessed; it would also demonstrate a new spirit of resistance in the country.

Lewis writes, "It is as if God demanded of us a faith which the Son of God in Gethsemane did not possess, and which if He had possessed it, would have been erroneous".

In the strictly hypothetical situation that this knoweldge could be possessed, it would seem equally likely that the physician would know the exact day that clinical stability would be reached, precluding the need for this type of analysis.

If unscientific claims were an illegal substance, this product would be so illegal that anyone caught possessing it would be instantly shot.

Nevertheless, since these are not the only compounds that these and other plant species possess, it would be wrong to discard the effect of other bioactive compounds.

If an ancestral aquatic tetrapod didn't already possess limbs, it would never have been able to crawl onto the land, and evolution would have followed a different pathway than the one familiar to us today.

"It's difficult to say how many of them were actually possessed – I would say two, maybe three," he told me.

Indeed, his 2002 memoir, Worth the Fighting For, describes adopting the hero of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan, as his role model at 13 ("... aspiring to Jordan's courage and nobility and certain I would possess it someday"...)...

And they would possess it regardless of whether they themselves had the cognitive attributes natural to or normal for their species.

Our increasing appreciation of the ubiquity of life suggests that any terra nova would already possess it.

He didn't have a place to put the Neve, and it was unthinkable that he would not possess it.