Sentence examples for possession and knowledge from inspiring English sources

Or ironising Proust, whom a vigilant desire for possession and knowledge imprisons in a pendulum that swings between suffering and boredom?

"The board... reserves its discretion as to whether or not such a person is fit and proper... after due consideration of all relevant facts which the board has in its possession and knowledge including... he has been disqualified as a director pursuant to the Company Directors' Disqualification Act 1986 within the previous five years".

But the biggest mystery is Rose, whom Ms. Mulligan plays with the same twinkling sense of self-possession and secret knowledge that she brought to "An Education".

Born in Germany, he emigrated to London with few possessions and no knowledge of the English language, yet rose to become a music teacher in the Royal Household.

Relational integration signifies the need to understand not only the possession and dispersal of knowledge needed to successfully utilize a complex intervention, but also the ways that those users understand and have confidence in the knowledge of people around them.

For Habermas, rationality consists not so much in the possession of knowledge and thus primarily concerned with the consistency and content of one's beliefs, but rather in "how speaking and acting subjects acquire and use knowledge" (Habermas, 1984, 11).

'Mental health literacy' is described as the possession of knowledge and beliefs which facilitate the recognition, management and prevention of mental disorders [ 1].

This is because Rahman is interested in the possession of knowledge, and in the politics of that possession.

He also argued that the law, in specifying that possession be "illicit," requires felonious possession, or at least possession with knowledge, and that to deport John for a conviction that would be void under American law would be to deny him the due process of law.

In cases like this, the recognition of others' possession of knowledge and skills is part of the smooth collaborative functioning of the team.

If this is the right way to think about the connection between knowledge possession and practical reasoning, then it seems to offer at a potential response to at least the secondary value problem.