Sentence examples for required possession from inspiring English sources

In hindsight it was clearly not appropriate that Savile had been given a supervisory role at the hospital, said the spokesman, adding "it is far from clear why any such role would have required possession of … a set of keys, we need to establish how he came to have them and on what basis".

Both pastoralism and agro-pastoralism required possession and access to assets, especially livestock and land.

He was also important as a translator; his translation of Dante became a required possession for those who wanted to be a part of high culture.

Fans often roar at hockey players to shoot the puck, but shooting requires possession.

The agents, ASM, emailed to say they said they had been "instructed by your landlord, Mrs J Wilson, to issue the enclosed formal notice stating they require possession of [the property] after July 8".

Crowther (2006) makes a distinction between compositional nonconceptualism, whereby the content of the state is not composed of concepts, and possessional nonconceptualism, whereby undergoing the state in question does not require possession of concepts characterizing the content of the state.

Note that this doesn't mean that the subject explicitly believes that p is true, however, since the latter is a different and higher order belief (mere belief that p, for instance, doesn't require possession of the concept of "truth" whereas the belief that p is true does).

Sustaining that lovely blessing doesn't require 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.

Note that this theory is not counter to documented reciprocity in chimpanzees, because these interactions typically involve services, such as grooming or support, which do not require ownership norms, or even possession norms, to protect them.

Even granting the need to assign some intrinsic nature to matter, it remains far from clear that mentality is the intrinsic character required for possession of these causal powers.