Sentence examples for which possession from inspiring English sources

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American football has become a game in which possession is nine-tenths of the war.

There are also cases in which possession and wandering combine, as when the spirit first enters the shaman and then leads his soul to the world of supernatural beings.

Thus, in the families of Lytton and Carew and in branches of Trelawny, for example, instances occur in which possession of the name and arms is contrary to a blood relationship.

Last week a Barnstable County grand jury indicted him on 12 charges, including felony counts, the most serious of which possession of an assault weapon — carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Firmino screamed at Simon Mignolet not to clear the ball to him in the second-half wind, but he did so anyway, setting off the train of events by which possession was turned over and a corner won which – taken short to substitute Juan Mata – delivered the accurate, match-winning cross.

But until the torturous endgame, basketball is a fluid contest, in which possession constantly passes back and forth between teams, and no single trip down the court seems especially important, given that each team has the ball a hundred times a game.

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The texts listed which possessions were the marks of the educated man.

The twins argued bitterly over which possessions to remove from the home.

Determine which possessions will be taxed.

Decriminalising the possession of cannabis in Western Australia and Portugal (which decriminalised possession of all drugs in 2001) had no impact on consumption, but saved a lot of money.

D'Antoni is the architect of a famously programmatic offense in which every possession runs through a quick-witted point guard.

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