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She continued to cling to the wall, her feet and one hand used to hold her up, she still had her other sword strapped to her back, waiting for the opportunity to use it but feeling helpless without both weapons in her possession
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This Yama is not only concerned about the non-stealing of material objects but also the stealing of other's ideas and other forms of possession
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She has in her possession a fascinating diary written by her grandmother who came across during the Troubles
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Now the land is in your possession, and it is your responsibility to not lose the family land
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and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession
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Wiesse, now in possession of the Element of Water, apologises vaguely and disappears with it immediately after the meal, leaving the four of us to talk to our hearts’ content
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He thought that everyone must be quite mad and he was in no mood to admit to himself that he was in possession of an oversized hooter
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In my arms I'm holding his favourite bouzouki, not the one with the inlaid mother-of-pearl flowers he holds in all his stage photographs, but his most treasured possession, the one he'd had since Piraeus, the delicate one; the undecorated one
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The Rider of the White is in possession of the Staff of Light
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I still had in my possession my disc-man and my music
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Within a month, and with late spring in full bud, the couple took possession of their brand new home, invested some of their newly acquired cash in a sporty little hatchback car, and paid for a family membership at a local country club and gymnasium
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“Is she always this headstrong, and in possession of this remarkable ability?”
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'Look, these days antiquity thieves zone in on a target and use highly sophisticated strategies to gain possession and then they sell to the highest bidder irrespective of the damage they inflict
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he was in possession of an oversized hooter
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month, and with late spring in full bud, the couple took possession
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Jorma still had that postcard in his possession, and we have come to find that address
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What would he say to them? How would she be received once he told his colorful tale of demonic possession by an electric ghost from the stars? How would she feel herself?
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It was a memorable day when I took possession of it – I’d shut the door, leaned on it and just wallowed in the knowledge that this was mine and no-one could come in unless I let them
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possession of a very strong sense of justice, and her
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By the time the ink had dried on her transfer contracts, Mandy was in possession of the construction plans and interior design drawings for the new establishment
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became the possession of the rest of
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about how and why it came into my possession
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He has in his possession a magazine article published in Kln, a city of forty-something million about nine thousand miles to the northeast
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Another fact in Brancetrabble’s possession of which the astronomers were unaware was that a strange device made of some of the highest denominations of alloy had been found in the city of Norbin
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I descended a little on the side of that delicious vale, surveying it with a secret kind of pleasure, though mixed with my other afflicting thoughts, to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England
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The charge? Possession of more than 50 grams of cocaine
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principles and then took possession of its name, but
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A weaver cannot apply himself entirely to his peculiar business, unless there is before-hand stored up somewhere, either in his own possession, or in that of some other person, a stock sufficient te maintain him, and to supply him with the materials and tools of his work, till he has not only completed, but sold his web
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He makes a profit of the one by keeping it in his own possession, and of the other by parting with it
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When we talk of any particular sum of money, we sometimes mean nothing but the metal pieces of which it is composed, and sometimes we include in our meaning some obscure reference to the goods which can be had in exchange for it, or to the power of purchasing which the possession of it conveys
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An unsuccessful war, for example, in which the enemy got possession of the capital, and consequently of that treasure which supported the credit of the paper money, would occasion a much greater confusion in a country where the whole circulation was carried on by paper, than in one where the greater part of it was carried on by gold and silver
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because he was my own possession
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In countries which have long been rich, you will frequently find the inferior ranks of people in possession both of houses and furniture perfectly good and entire, but of which neither the one could have been built, nor the other have been made for their use
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There arises, in consequence, a competition between different capitals, the owner of one endeavouring to get possession of that employment which is occupied by another; but, upon most occasions, he can hope to justle that other out of this employment by no other means but by dealing upon more reasonable terms
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In the present state of Europe, the proprietor of a single acre of land is as perfectly secure in his possession as the proprietor of 100,000
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A villain, enfranchised, and at the same time allowed to continue in possession of the land, having no stock of his own, could cultivate it only by means of what the landlord advanced to him, and must therefore have been what the French call a metayer
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The possession, even of such farmers, however, was long extremely precarious, and still is so in many parts of Europe
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She had freely chosen to follow the more traditional path of her gender by hooking up with a steady boyfriend from her high school days, getting formally engaged and then married to Joe shortly after graduating, their buying a house and car and all the stuff you’re supposed to take possession of when you form a conjugal union, and her bearing three children before she reached the age of thirty
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It did not always reinstate them in the possession of the land, but gave them damages, which never amounted to a real loss
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that the action of ejectment was invented, by which the tenant recovers, not damages only, but possession, and in which his claim is not necessarily concluded by the uncertain decision of a single assize
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This action has been found so effectual a remedy, that, in the modern practice, when the landlord has occasion to sue for the possession of the land, he seldom makes use of the actions which properly belong to him as a landlord, the writ of right or the writ of entry, but sues in the name of his tenant, by the writ of ejectment
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His tenants could agree to this upon one condition only, that they should be secured in their possession for such a term of years as might give them time to recover, with profit, whatever they should lay not in the further improvement of the land
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The capital, however, that is acquired to any country by commerce and manufactures, is always a very precarious and uncertain possession, till some part of it has been secured and realized in the cultivation and improvement of its lands
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They would still, therefore, keep possession of the home market; and though a capricious man of fashion might sometimes prefer foreign wares, merely because they were foreign, to cheaper and better goods of the same kind that were made at home, this folly could, from the nature of things, extend to so few, that it could make no sensible impression upon the general employment of the people
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"But I never thought Roycen would actually have something like this in his possession
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Or in the possession of a non-Lascorii that is
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It has caused us not a little re-evaluation of our intentions before that 'stone' finally came back into your possession
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Now that I have given the matter some thought, it occurs to me that all the while she is pleading poverty, she is in possession of an animal that could grace her table for the best part of a month
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possession of a single person
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In consequence of the representations of Columbus, the council of Castile determined to take possession of the countries of which the inhabitants were plainly incapable of defending themselves
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The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society
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While Portugal was under the dominion of Spain, Brazil was attacked by the Dutch, who got possession of seven of the fourteen provinces into which it is divided
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When the English got possession of this country, they found in it near double the number of inhabitants which father Charlevoix had assigned to it between twenty and thirty years before
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Had the growing trade of the colonies been left free to all nations, whatever share of it might have fallen to Great Britain, and a very considerable share would probably have fallen to her, must have been all an addition to this great trade of which she was before in possession
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The price, indeed, was very small, and instead of thirty years purchase, the ordinary price of land in the present times, it amounted to little more than the expense of the different equipments which made the first discovery, reconoitered the coast, and took a fictitious possession of the country
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Such sacrifices, though they might frequently be agreeable to the interest, are always mortifying to the pride of every nation; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, they are always contrary to the private interest of the governing part of it, who would thereby be deprived of the disposal of many places of trust and profit, of many opportunities of acquiring wealth and distinction, which the possession of the most turbulent, and, to the great body of the people, the most unprofitable province, seldom fails to afford
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To gain possession of the man’s diary file was like a godsend
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He felt safer if he knew that they were both in his personal possession
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The rich, in particular, are necesarily interested to support that order of things, which can alone secure them in the possession of their own advantages
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Men of inferior wealth combine to defend those of superior wealth in the possession of their property, in order that men of superior wealth may combine to defend them in the possession of theirs
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When the tenant sued his lord for having unjustly outed him of his lease, the damages which he recovered were by no means equivalent to the possession of the land
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In order to make every individual feel himself perfectly secure in the possession of every right which belongs to him, it is not only necessary that the judicial should be separated from the executive power, but that it should be rendered as much as possible independent of that power
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He was confronted with an array of multi-role craft: designed equally for high speed and high manoeuvrability within or out of the Earth’s atmosphere, one of these vessels had superluminal capability – although his b’tari supervisor denied that such a craft was in their possession
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They would then gain possession of the only technology that possibly threatened their plan
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It was restored to them by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle; and, about this time the spirit of war and conquest seems to have taken possession of their servants in India, and never since to have left them
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They remained for several years in quiet possession of this revenue; but in 1767, administration laid claim to their territorial acquisitions, and the revenue arising from them, as of right belonging to the crown ; and the company, in compensation for this claim, agreed to pay to government £400,000 a-year
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That he should go so far, though he went no further, gave some satisfaction to the patrons of the reformation, who, having got possession of the government in the reign of his son and successor completed, without any difficulty, the work which Henry VIII
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While property remains in the possession of the same person, whatever permanent taxes may have been imposed upon it, they have never been intended to diminish or take away any part of its capital value, but only some part of the revenue arising from it
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The death of a father, to such of his children as live in the same house with him, is seldom attended with any increase, and frequently with a considerable diminution of revenue ; by the loss of his industry, of his office, or of some life-rent estate, of which he may have been in possession
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The cheapness of their goods would secure to our own workmen, not only the possession of a home, but a very great command of the foreign market
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When we make declarations, we are speaking into the atmosphere, making known who we are in Christ, what our possession or authority is, and what the word is saying about our situation
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With these charts in his possession, Waddell
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possession of the fort, the Union troops with overwhelming
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officers’ swords be surrendered, but that they should be able to keep them in their possession after the surrender, and so he wrote this into the terms of the surrender
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Nye and his mate from the Abigail, who had also been released, took possession of two whaleboats from the Sophia Thornton
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prisoners and the money in their possession was taken as well
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taken to take possession of the Shenandoah and secure the property on board with the view of her delivery to the United
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With respect to the officers and crew…if the facts stated by Captain Waddell are true, there is clearly no case for any persecution on the ground of piracy in the courts of this country, and we presume that her Majesty’s government is not in possession of any evidence which could be produced before any court or magistrate for the purpose of contravening the statement or showing that the crime of piracy has, in fact, been committed…With respect to any persons on the Shenandoah who cannot immediately be proceeded against and
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They doubtless believed for a human to be in possession of such technology was something akin to a prehistoric man with a gun; not merely dangerous to oneself and others but somehow contaminating the natural process of progression
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On the first possession, San Francisco marched down the field with precision passing and run plays, operating in the hurry up, spread formation
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Access rather than possession
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By its use, the misappropriation of kit, a common form of recruit hazing, would be impossible, and the possession of a full equipment by each soldier easily assured
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This cause many problems! The first was the public stole some of the lights for unknown reasons as it was and is illegal to have SAP equipment in your possession
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the possession of your son
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Pushing aside such thoughts he headed for his sleeping chambers, planning his next move, the move that would put him in possession of Boddaert's Magic
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And yet, when he heard I was to come out here to vie for the hand of the Serenor maiden, he gifted me with her most precious possession
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"He too was part of this plan to steal our most treasured possession
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To be in possession of the Sacred Roots could only mean that they had stolen them
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It is his favourite possession
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Finally he laid the object on the ground, closed his eyes and raised his snout to the hidden sky, giving thanks to the Prime Mover for choosing him to be the recipient of such a powerful and breathtaking possession
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Cherva nodded slowly at the Preceptor's words, savouring the power that would come to him once Grindel had Boddaert's Magic in his possession
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whether he sells him or he is found in his possession,
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Ironically, laws on top of laws, that seek to reduce the (legal) possession of firearms, may actually produce unintended results by creating an imbalance between criminal elements procuring them through alternative (illegal) sources and law-abiding citizens denied or restricted legal access
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Sentences for drug possession became even longer
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This/these remarkable event(s) quickly brought to mind the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) waged ten years earlier by coalition forces led by the United States against Iraq who, having invaded Kuwait and seizing possession of its oil wells, was making veiled threats against its Saudi (Arabian) neighbor
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Still conscious of the gun in his waist holster, and feeling somehow sullied by the possession of it, he saw the being study his every inch
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Why shouldn’t I be draped in Dorian’s clothes, Dorian’s jewels? After all, I was his possession as well
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prized possession, Barbara, and he was tel ing them to back off
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The three slugs dug from the tourist’s car matched the recently fired gun found in François possession
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He found himself accused of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of cocaine, under investigation for murder, and following Caroline’s success at spreading the tale of her ordeal, was left without a friend to intervene