The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They met with many difficulties and many adventures, and became involved in political intrigues, Antoine especially exercising such influence as he possessed in favour of France and the Roman Catholic missionaries.

For many centuries to come Basel possessed the only permanent bridge over the river " between Lake Constance and the sea ".

The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals ; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans ; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.

There are 10 types of monsters, including possessed humans as well as specifically hellish monsters, all which vary in many ways.

Currently paleoanthropologists are debating whether these Homo species possessed some or many of the cultural and behavioral traits associated with modern humans such as language, complex symbolic thinking, technological creativity etc.

One was the gods ; another was the spirits of deceased humans, who existed in the divine realm and possessed many of the gods ' abilities.

He analyzed a number of meteorites, and for many years wrote the digest on the literature of meteorites in the Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte der Chemie ; he possessed the best private collection of meteoric stones and irons existing.

In many cultures, the fox appears in folklore as a symbol of cunning and trickery, or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.

This powerful family possessed for many generations before 369 BC the privilege of furnishing the tagus, the local term for the strategos of the combined Thessalian forces.

In addition to that the nation possessed great many T-55, T-62, and PT-76 tanks along with huge amounts of AKM assault rifles ordered.

He possessed not only a long-term national and international vision, but also the short-term ability to juggle many complex developments simultaneously.

Fossils suggest they may have possessed many modern attributes even by the late Carboniferous, and it is possible that they captured small vertebrates, for some species had a wing span of 71 cm.

In addition to his accurate probing consistency, he possessed a well-disguised googly and topspinner which tricked many batsmen and yielded him many wickets.

Ellen White came to occupy a particularly central role ; her many visions and spiritual leadership convinced her fellow Adventists that she possessed the gift of prophecy.

His conquest of Dacia enriched the empire greatly — the new province possessed many valuable gold mines.

:: “ It involves our saying that, even if the total quantity of pleasure in each was exactly equal, yet the fact that all the beings in the one possessed in addition knowledge of many different kinds and a full appreciation of all that was beautiful or worthy of love in their world, whereas none of the beings in the other possessed any of these things, would give us no reason whatever for preferring the former to the latter .”

Although the two scoreboards possessed some superficial resemblances, they differed in many details, and the Yankee Stadium scoreboard remained at Yankee Stadium until 1959 when it was replaced, two years after a different Ballantine scoreboard was installed at Shibe.

The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach adopted: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10, 000 inhabitants, today some consider an urban place of fewer than 100, 000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are very, very much smaller than that.

He possessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and instrument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop, whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in this unfamiliar territory.

The companies ' opponents argued, on the other hand, that performing the necessary checking would require resources greater than the companies possessed and that therefore their claims were not valid.

In fact, the very existence of the Alphabet plays, or rather the absence of an equivalent edition for Sophocles and Aeschylus, could distort our notions of distinctive Euripidean qualitiesmost of his least ' tragic ' plays are in the Alphabet edition and possibly the other two tragedians would appear just as genre-bending as this " restless experimenter " if we possessed more than their ' select ' editions.

But he possessed them to a degree other men do not.

Among other distinctions, it is the central piece of evidence suggesting that the Moon once possessed an active magnetic field.

In addition to being members of the Council of Electors, several lay electors were therefore members of the Council of Princes as well by virtue of other territories they possessed.

Early hominids likely possessed fur similar to other large apes, but about 2. 5 million years ago they developed a greater distribution of sweat glands that enabled them to perspire over most of the body.

By 1985, Mecca, like other Saudi cities, possessed the most modern telephone, telex, radio and TV communications.

It is no longer known who possessed the other four original copies, or if they still exist.

However, Renaissance musicians would have been highly trained in dyadic counterpoint and thus possessed this and other information necessary to read a score, " what modern notation requires would then have been perfectly apparent without notation to a singer versed in counterpoint.

The Sheriff of Nottingham possessed property near Loxley, amongst other places both far and wide including Hazlebadge Hall, Peveril Castle and Haddon Hall.

Linguistic amendments were also included ; the line in the preamble emphasising that authors possessed books as they would any other piece of property was dropped, and the bill moved from something designed " for Securing the Property of Copies of Books to the rightful Owners thereof " to a bill " for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies ".

Subsequent to this, five superstring theories were developed that incorporated fermions and possessed other properties necessary for a theory of everything.

He possessed two pigs, one of which was always growing whilst the other was always roasting, and ever-laden fruit trees.

He said that the Ninth Amendment refers to " a universe of rights, possessed by the people — latent rights, still to be evoked and enacted into law .... a reservoir of other, unenumerated rights that the people retain, which in time may be enacted into law.

This type of lung construction is called a circulatory lung, as distinct from the bellows lung possessed by other animals.

In addition to the problems presented by aluminum construction, the Sheridan had one glaring defect that no other armored vehicle possessed ; it fired caseless 152mm main gun rounds.

Adherents also believed, as did other Christians, that martyrs and confessors also possessed this power.

To the question, therefore, which ought to hold the first rank, Raffaelle or Michael Angelo, it must be answered, that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man, there is no doubt but Raffaelle is the first.

The general concept of rights is that they are possessed by individuals in the sense that they are permissions and entitlements to do things which other persons, or which governments or authorities, can not infringe.

According to Michael Meacher, this change put an end to a previous inequity whereby two families, in otherwise identical circumstances, paid differing amounts of tax “ simply because in one case the child possessed property transferred to it by a grandparent, while in the other case the grandparent ’ s identical property was inherited by the parent .” In 1969, a “ save-as-you-earn ” scheme was introduced, designed to encourage new savings over a contracted period.

According to a negative view of Balaam in the Talmud, Balaam possessed the gift of being able to ascertain the exact moment during which God is wroth — a gift bestowed upon no other creature.