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  • We need to come up with items that demonstrate their possessor's sense of style and taste.

    Ted Hope: 38 Ways the Film Industry Is Failing Today 2010

  • We need to come up with items that demonstrate their possessor's sense of style and taste.

    Ted Hope: 38 Ways the Film Industry Is Failing Today Ted Hope 2010

  • But what he does not mention is that this must be a very small space, one occupied by the possessor's of land and capital alone.

    Archive 2009-06-01 John M 2009

  • And the third is simple usury consumer credit; have the class that is over-compensated—that is, the possessor's of capital—simply lend the excess to consumers to soak up the excess goods.

    Archive 2009-06-01 John M 2009

  • Property originally indicated the right or title of a possessor to a thing possessed with the possessor's entitlement to legal protection and political membership.

    Property at the Folger Library Dan Ernst 2008

  • Property originally indicated the right or title of a possessor to a thing possessed with the possessor's entitlement to legal protection and political membership.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • That changes nothing about the nature of the maker's, and possessor's, offense.

    200 years for possessing 20 photographs. Ann Althouse 2007

  • ˜Competence™, then, is to be interpreted as picking out a hypothetical body of unconscious knowledge that enters into but is not exhausted by its possessor's linguistic performance.

    Idiolects Barber, Alex 2004

  • These documents provided a policeman with an instant guide to the possessor's life history and rights of movement and failure to produce it was a punishable offence.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • His maternal grandfather was a petty government official in the provinces, who built up the kind of wealth that income-tax authorities in India call "disproportionate to the possessor's means."

    The Great Narayan Mishra, Pankaj 2001

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