"possess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Those possessing names (sometimes even mere homophones) identical to the emperor's were not infrequently forced to change them.
- "No, Captain," he said, noting that the captain appeared to possess several names.
- In addition to such names, most modern Manchus live in China and possess Chinese names.
- While it possesses many common and technical names, it is often referred to as Gypchek.
- He notices that farm cooperatives tend to possess "resolutely optimistic names ("La Esperanza," "La Paz").
- Most roads and places in Bandra possess English names that were given to them during British rule.
- During Chinese antiquity, the vast majority of the Chinese people who were not related to aristocratic families, did not possess ancestral and clan names.
- Many Egyptians possessed similar names, not to denote an absence of disease but to convey a positive message of healthiness and vigour.
- If that is true, then the name has a somewhat amorphous referent, meaning some or all of a population also possessing other names and not necessarily politically or ethnically united, except when the region became early Denmark.
- These two villages possessed not only different names, but even belonged to different governances (Liberec, and Český Dub.
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