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.

They believed that humans possessed a ka, or life-force, which left the body at the point of death.

They may have been highly trained or only possessed a rudimentary knowledge of obstetrics.

They were also concerned that the young Princess was not possessed of the right character to be Empress of Russia.

They were called up and relieved through public-houses and therefore a man could not get this job unless he possessed the favourable opinion of the publican, who looked upon most favourably those who drank.

They concentrated on developing a whole man possessed of religious values sufficiently strong to resist temptations from within, yet flexible enough to adjust to the ' isms ' ( professionalism, materialism, individualism, and consumerism ) tempting him from without.

They also temporarily possessed Dutch territories during the Napoleonic Wars and the Spanish areas in the Seven Years War, In 1819 Stamford Raffles established Singapore as a key trading post for Britain in their rivalry with the Dutch.

They say that in 1720, a Brazilian Jesuit, named Bartholomew Gusmao, possessed of abilities, imagination, and address, by permission of John V. fabricated a balloon in a place contiguous to the Royal Palace, and one day, in presence of their Majesties, and an immense crowd of spectators, raised himself, by means of a fire lighted in the machine, as high as the cornice of the building ; but through the negligence and want of experience of those who held the cords, the machine took an oblique direction, and, touching the cornice, burst and fell.

They admired Irving for the pro-Nazi slant in his work and the fact that he possessed a degree of mainstream credibility that they lacked, but were annoyed that he did not openly deny the Holocaust.

They were one of the chief tools in the Catholic Counter-reformation, the aim of the order being to work among the poor, impressing the minds of the common people by the poverty and austerity of their life, and sometimes with sensationalist preaching, such as their use of the supposedly possessed Marthe Brossier to arouse the Paris mob against the Huguenots.

They argued that groups sharing the same ( or similar ) language possessed a common identity and ancestry.

They follow the Rule of St. Augustine, written sometime between 397-403, for a monastic community Augustine founded in Hippo ( modern day Algeria ), and which takes as its inspiration the early Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles, particularly Acts 4: 32: " Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common " ( RSV ).

They possessed an “ inexhaustible supply of grass, the hills around being covered knee-deep with a luxuriant crop of pure rye ”.

They possessed sensory awareness unbound by physical organs, and they possessed language.

They also possessed the powers of reproduction unlike the minerals and rocks lowest on the Chain of Being.

They possessed physical appetites and sensory attributes, the number depending upon their position within the Chain of Being.

They all possessed one chief disadvantage, however: regardless of the process used, they rendered the plate extremely slow.

They possessed some arms, but the supply was insufficient, and the leaders were hoping for a French invasion to make good the deficiency and to give support to a popular uprising.

They are possessed by spirits, acquired by the faithful, and transmitted to objects.

They went to the finals again in 1978, with a veteran team spearheaded by the Howes — 50-year-old Gordie led the team in scoring — future NHL stars Gordie Roberts and Mike Rogers, All-Star defenseman Ron Plumb, and forwards John McKenzie, Dave Keon and Mike Antonovich, and possessed of the league's best defense.

They understood that no other senator possessed Robinson's tenacity and influence, however, so they accepted his leadership, infuriating as it could be.

They also possessed many of the cultural features that accompany semi-sedentary agricultural life: storage facilities, more permanent dwellings, larger settlements, and cemeteries or burial grounds.

They supposedly possessed the power to ‘ bewitch ’ anybody if they wished.

They wouldn't o' stood no chance with you in a plain, straight-out shoot-down ''.

They could no longer afford the luxury of the canvas sweat bag that cooled it by evaporation.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.

They offered no opinions, volunteered nothing, betrayed no emotions.

They showed no marked dependence on the flow rate within the accuracy of these measurements.

They were not free to be themselves in this situation, an interpersonal one, where there was an observer of their reactions and they had no guide for acceptable behavior.

They were reluctant to appoint sheriffs to protect the property, thus running the risk of creating disturbances such as that on the Vermejo, and yet the cowboys protested that they got no salary for arresting cattle thieves and running the risk of being shot.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

They spread over an area no larger than Oregon ; ;

They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.

They succeeded in eluding the curious at the hotel, but there was no chance of avoiding them at the nightclub.

They have the same men, no age problem, no injuries and they also have Vinegar Bend Mizell for the full season, along with Bobby Shantz ''.

They indicated that no new errors were being made and that all old errors would be corrected `` within 60 days ''.

They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.

They do not understand how a small magazine with no advertising and no newsstand sale could have achieved such a following.

They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.

They care no more for politics, says Mr. Wesker, than they do for a symphony.

They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.