"possess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its economy was based on the primary sector, possessing an unskilled and increasingly larger workforce, composed by both free people (including slave owners) and slaves or their direct descendants.
- The Essenes chose not to possess slaves but served each other and, as a result of communal ownership, did not engage in trading.
- Social organization on Werel seems to combine the least appealing traits of feudalism and capitalism; rich Werelians, known as the Owners, possess slaves known as assets.
- The state was governed officially by the Almaami, but effective control lay with regional chiefs of the central provinces who possessed considerable land, followers and slaves.
- The Third Council of Orléans (of Gaul) forbids Jews to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves.
- They possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in every British territory in North America and the Caribbean.
- In contrast with classical Greek poleis, the Macedonians generally possessed very few slaves.
- He has a standing army of ten million men, and his people possess slaves--white slaves--to the number of ten or fifteen million.
- I was sent for a time to Virginia, to my mother's brother, who possessed a large plantation and numerous slaves.
- As this area was in the "free" Northwest Territory, Will had to have legal exemptions to possess slaves.
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