These investing blunders, of course, were not the first time that the Crawleys have proved to be a family possessed of considerable wealth, but little financial wisdom.
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Because everybody has to be possessed with a sense of urgency about putting people back to work, making sure the folks are staying in their homes and that they can send their kids to college.
How lucky, then, for young Burnham to be alive in the 1990s and possessed of an extremely rightward Bell Curve IQ.
The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.
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If Tim Tebow were to be sprinkled with magic Lombardi dust and simultaneously possessed by the spirits of Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham and Popeye the Sailor-Man, he would be lucky to be one-quarter as good as Peyton Manning at his best.
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Sociologist Dr Richard Hoskins, of Kings College London, recently returned from doing research on the issue in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he found thousands of children were believed to be possessed.
Proud's character is said to be self-possessed and a little snobbish, with a low opinion of his mother's boyfriend, Minty.
Response: Relativists concede that if you were to inculcate any given set of values, those values would be true for those who possessed them.
However, NFA items owned by properly drafted trusts may be legally possessed by any Trustee and a beneficiary may use the item in the presence or under the authority of the Trustee.
Mackinder saw history being made on the Northwest frontier of India, but the Empire bled to death on the fields of France in fear of what might happen elsewhere, and by the time it got to India it handed over that frontier, out of exhaustion and a growing reluctance to fight for a possession that did not want to be possessed.
And so, although possessed of a remarkable lyric gift from an early age, Matthew could never wholeheartedly believe that to be a poet was sufficient.
It was a fitting end to a career that began when 13-year-old Natalia, completely double-jointed and possessed of an incredible gift for musicality and movement, told her parents she did not want to be an engineer, thank you, she wanted to dance.
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