A cat is still technically a possession, but a possession whose purpose is companionship.
This loads the dice against the team in possession, whose hooker has to raise a foot to strike the ball against the opposition's eight-man shove.
In others, such as Western Sahara, a former Spanish possession whose bid to escape from Moroccan control has long divided the AU, a stalemate is set to persist, perhaps indefinitely.
At first, Cardinal Law comes across as a man of almost unshakeable self-possession, whose claims that he simply can't remember the relevant details sound plausible enough, particularly when the lawyer for the plaintiff, Orson Krieger Thomas Jay Ryann), presents evidence dating back to the 1960's and 70's.
Beattie's next story, "Fancy Flights," was published in The New Yorker six months later, and it featured Michael, an amiable stoner indifferent to material possessions whose self-absorption and childishness take on the dimensions of an American tall tale.
But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian statehood of 1959, Cuba and Hawai'i figured as twin objects of U.S. imperial desire and as possessions whose tropical island locales might support all manner of fantasy fulfillment cultural, financial, and geopolitical.
Its totalitarian society portrays women wearing red cloaks and white, wide-brimmed bonnets as sexual possessions whose sole purpose is to breed for high-ranking men.
But what kind of possession, and whose?
Esaw Booker, whom Perez arrested in 1992 for cocaine possession and whose conviction has since been overturned, has claimed that he was framed by Perez and other officers.
Nothing in our rules prohibits from admission to practice in this Court resident aliens who have been admitted to practice 'for three years past in the highest court of a State, Territory, District, Commonwealth, or Possession' and whose 'private and professional characters shall appear to be good.' Rule 5, Rules of the Supreme Court.
The most difficult of criminals to trace, since his connections with his victims are almost always imagined, such a killer is a romantic figure in reverse: sexually obsessed, isolated by his compulsions, the very portrait of demonic possession: one whose entire outward life has been constructed as a means of satisfying the forbidden.
