• Would that nice Mr Obama, the precocious possessor of a Nobel peace prize, really be so duplicitous?

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  • He has formidable intellectual powers: possessor of a first-class degree, ex-president of the Oxford Union, and an ex-consultant with McKinsey.

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  • He didn't fit any of the "prohibited possessor" categories that would have prevented the purchase and passed an instant federal background check.

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  • It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct conclusions.

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  • But their very possession transforms the geopolitical status of the possessor.

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  • The possessor of fine intelligence, he was not on a soap-box, or bent on influencing the great and good, though he got their attention just the same.

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  • Sexual selection emphasises the development of characteristics that demonstrate in a way that cannot be faked just how fit that characteristic's possessor is to father (or mother) another individual's offspring.

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  • Second, achieving after 2010 a more robust implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the aim of accelerating disarmament among possessor states, preventing proliferation and ultimately freeing the world from nuclear weapons.

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  • In North Korea, the death of Great Leader Kim Il Sung in 1994 elided into the rule of his son, Kim Jong Il--possessor today of the nuclear weapons his father once dreamed of.

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  • It acts as a link to a more glorious past (real or imagined) and leads people to attribute - justifiably or otherwise - to the possessor positive qualities the name might have once stood for.

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  • For it is here that the signal is really chopped into Leonardo-like categories before it finally emerges, by processes as yet poorly understood, as what the possessor of the brain in question perceives as visual reality.

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  • Israel, itself the possessor of a nuclear arsenal of unknown size, is also watching closely and is quite capable of taking unilateral action if it feels threatened as the destruction of the Iraqi reactor in 1981 showed.

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