Sentence examples for which has possessed from inspiring English sources

On its first North American tour last week, the instrument was accompanied by solemn guardians from the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, which has possessed the violin since 1956 and allows select musicians to play it with some frequency.

But in the case of China, which has possessed nuclear weapons since the 1960s and is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Clinton administration decided that sharing PALS would be too risky.

The new evidence came as no surprise to the Obama administration, which has possessed some of this intelligence for years, but moved carefully in adding pressure on Iran, mindful of the loss of credibility the United States suffered over faulty intelligence on Iraq's weapons efforts.

The outstanding electrochemical behavior of ZnCo2O4 NCPs could be attributed to the unique structure (shown in Fig. 2c), which has possessed high specific surface area and empty space among the aggregated nanosized primary ZnCo2O4 particles.

At the time the building went into receivership, Mr. Gross said, two brothers, members of the Ryder family, which had possessed the Opera House for many years, owned it.

After calcination at 570 °C, the catalyst, which had possessed practically no activity in the oxidation reaction, gave a Co 2p3/2 main structure peak at 781.3 eV which was very similar to those obtained for synthesized ConTiOn+2 compounds (CoTiO3 and Co2TiO4), and this catalyst sample had relatively negligible CO chemisorption as observed by TPD spectra.

Unlike the neighbouring Netherlands, which had possessed a sizeable navy, the Belgian Corps de Marine had had only few ships before the war.

For instance, Ronald Coase argued in a comparison between economics and its "contiguous disciplines" that "the great advantage which economics has possessed is that it is able to use the measuring rod of money".

There is no precedent for either the scale or the manner in which ISIS has possessed the popular imagination.

Lewis writes, "It is as if God demanded of us a faith which the Son of God in Gethsemane did not possess, and which if He had possessed it, would have been erroneous".

It was acquired by the Thatcher government in the early 1980s as a replacement for the Polaris missile system which the UK had possessed since the 1960s.