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  • And again, the more cases like this where prolonged possession is demonstrated without counter cases of non-possession the more reasonable it becomes to credit such experience in the future.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Probable Cause and Internet Accounts in United States v. Frechette 2009

  • Gandhi's own conversion to a consistent philosophy of non-violence was, he tells us in My Experiments with Truth (p. 195), greatly assisted by an insight that brought together legal training with his study of the Gita: 'I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee, who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.'

    Faith Communities in a Civil Society - Christian Perspectives 2007

  • Gandhi's own conversion to a consistent philosophy of non-violence was, he tells us in My Experiments with Truth (p. 195), greatly assisted by an insight that brought together legal training with his study of the Gita: 'I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee, who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.'

    Faith Communities in a Civil Society - Christian Perspectives 2007

  • Gandhi's own conversion to a consistent philosophy of non-violence was, he tells us in My Experiments with Truth (p. 195), greatly assisted by an insight that brought together legal training with his study of the Gita: 'I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee, who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.'

    Faith Communities in a Civil Society - Christian Perspectives 2007

  • I also might be prosecuted for non-possession of a draft card.

    Draft Resistance Rader, Gary 1967

  • We can think, only, that it entertains unreasoned reasons and experiences unexperienced, all transmuted from the material frames, foreign and recognized only by parallel, so that it possesses in a kind of non-possession and knows affection without being affected.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Take notice with me how the possession or non-possession of the power of self-control affects the lives of young people in a few particulars.

    Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls Helen Ekin Starrett

  • An Attributive then may be defined as a term which signifies the possession, or non-possession, of an attribute by a subject.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Hence division, being always founded on the possession or non-possession of accidental attributes, seems to lie wholly outside the sphere of formal logic.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • The sheep and the goats are distinguished, not by the possession or non-possession of miraculous spiritual powers, professions of belief or

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

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