Sentence examples for that possesses it from inspiring English sources

For example, "upper jaw fused to the skull" originated in the ancestor of a small gnathostomatan group called the Holocephali (which means "entire or whole head" and includes the chimeras/rat fish, relatives of sharks and rays), so this new jaw state becomes the new plesiomorphic (ancestral) condition for the group that possesses it, the Holocephali.

Prior goes on to defend his account of modality as quantification over possible states of affairs against various alternatives, for example the Andersonian account, according to which 'Every table here is necessarily brown' means 'There is a property which every table here in fact possesses, and of which it is true that everything that possesses it is in fact brown'.

But is it so unusual that it requires the brains of those that possess it to be unusual in others ways, too?

High self-esteem has become so valued as a prerequisite for good mental health that possessing it has become almost a human right.

The presence of the analogous structure, in this case the wing, does not reflect evolutionary closeness among the organisms that possess it.

Mr. Chikane said he had subsequently consulted with Zimbabwean officials about the authenticity of the document, concerned that possessing it could be criminal.

But for the biologist, the only question is whether such behavior is adaptive, meaning selected and genetically encoded because it conferred some survival value on the societies that possessed it.

Child Pornography - The Arizona chapter of the ACLU believes that production of child pornography should be illegal, but that possessing it is protected by the right to privacy.

Although scientists recently discovered the part of our brains that lights up when we're feeling brave (it's the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, duh), boldness also lives in the habits and traits of those that possess it.

This variant is present only in Gammaproteobacteria, but its distribution is patchy, e.g. it is often absent from close relatives of species that possess it.

The range of green algae that possess EFL is much broader than expected based on previous data, and more importantly its distribution is not easily reconciled with the evolutionary relationships among the organisms that possess it.