"possession" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Most of Western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king.
- English monarchs made subsequent attempts to reclaim their former continental possessions, particularly during the Hundred Years' War, and even claimed the throne of France itself.
- Belize was the last continental possession of the United Kingdom in the Americas.
- At a higher social level the lives and fortunes of individuals continued to be bound up with the continental possessions.
- Louis was to some degree right; since 1202 no homage had been performed to a king of France by any plantagenet king for his residual continental possessions.
- By 1453, the French had expelled English from all their continental possessions, except for the Pale of Calais.
- After the change of government he was made Savio di Terraferma (for the administration of the republics continental possessions), and became a senator.
- It held an equally powerful appeal to the lords and knights of Santerin's continental possessions, along their frontiers with Arnhand.
- From John's perspective, what then followed represented an opportunity to stabilise control over his continental possessions and produce a lasting peace with Philip in Paris.
- At the same conference Henry II did homage to Philip for all his continental possessions.
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