Sentence examples for practical possession from inspiring English sources

W. S. F. Quick, chairman of the board of managers of the United Spanish War Veterans Club of Seattle, yesterday signed a receipt for government property valued at $18,000, which gives the local veterans practical possession of the pieces from now on.

The ancient Chinese also believed in the afterlife, burying their loved ones with valuables, everyday objects, and even clay or bronze replicas of practical items and possessions like horse-drawn chariots, domestic animals and cooking and farming equipment.

LOCK OUT OTHERS When it's not possible or practical to keep physical possession of the computer, you can take a number of protective measures to ensure that only its owner has access.

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.

Noë then argues that perceptual experience acquires content thanks to our possession and exercise of practical bodily knowledge, and examines, among other topics, the problems posed by spatial content and the experience of color.

As Jenna Garrett explained in Feature Shoot, "With SIM cards and mobile phones rapidly becoming hot commodities, Romano hints that be it practical or frivolous, longing for material possessions is a universally human trait".

There "exchanges" occur, and "commerce, as if life were a practical and pleasurable certainty,... still a possession to be treasured, and... unalienably his".

To completely dismiss religion as corrupt nonsense presumes that one is in possession of a truth and practical wisdom that is uncorrupted by the human tendencies that express themselves in religion.

When Farrow discovered nude photos of her daughter (for all practical purposes Allen's stepdaughter) in his possession, and he admitted to their sexual relationship, his actions smacked of incest, whether it met the technical description or not.

So, while what they buy may seem to the rest of us to be "toys," to the superrich these possessions may actually be rather practical.

Even if you think this move to Italy is for the long term, it may not be practical to ship all of your current possessions there.