Sentence examples for was for possession from inspiring English sources

Egypt's state Mena news agency later said it was for possession of a bullet casing.

Although Mr. Flowers had a prior conviction, it was for possession and not for selling drugs.

At nineteen, John had already spent a year in juvenile detention, for robbery, and his recent arrest was for possession of marijuana.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said three were for public order offences, one was for possession of an offensive weapon, three were for going equipped and 12 were for breaches of the peace.

Whatever the reason, court papers show that the only charge police intended to file against Gray was for possession of a switchblade knife, which they say was clipped to the inside of his front pants pocket.

Nearly half of these arrests were for possession of cannabis.

Of those, 44percentt were for possession of marijuana.

All arrests were for possession or use of marijuana, according to Officer Guy Braun, a police spokesman.

Sixty-five percent of the 120,000 drug-related arrests in Britain last year were for possession of marijuana.

Of the more than eight million marijuana arrests made between 2001 and 2010, nearly 90 percent were for possession.

Nearly 80percentt of drug arrests in 1997, the most recent year for which figures are available, were for possession.