common possession

A digital camera is a common possession among soldiers.

By the late eleventh century it was the common possession of the French-speaking world.

The sense can be common possession of many people and it not a part or mode of the individual psyche.

This work made what he presented in the lecture hall the common possession of hundreds of thousands.

Remember that the Alps are our common possession, and that we want to protect them for the benefit of all.

The household objects, set out like a ritual site, signify for both of them because, literally and figuratively, they are a common possession.

For in natural law there is one liberty for all and the common possession of all things.'

The mines remained common possessions.

In practical terms, John says, it is known that the common possession of property leads to civil strife among men, but moral and natural law favour it.

Nassau Castle, however, remained a common possession of the two brothers (the so-called Ganerbschaft in ancient Germanic hereditary laws).

The Talmudic learning which up to that period had been the common possession of the majority of the people became accessible to a limited number of students only.

The four-engine B-17, widely used on World War II bombing missions, is a relatively common possession of collectors and museums today.

When combined with the spiritual implications of koinonia, fellowship provides a joint participation in God's graces and denotes that common possession of spiritual values.

I have been stinted of education, liberty, money, dress, the very necessaries of life, the commonest pleasures of childhood, the commonest possessions of youth.

These are among our fundamental values, to which, it is to be hoped, the Convention will give a prominent place in the constitution that will be our common possession.

The baggage room, a reception area, is being restored to include a smattering of trunks and suitcases and the most common possession of an earlier time, feather mattresses.

Everywhere, the common possession Thoreau sought has long since been sacrificed - the riverbanks deeded and all but the most prominent singularities of the landscape turned to private, pragmatic use.

Thoreau was talking about the need to preserve wild land in the immediate neighborhood of our towns, to set aside "common possession" in rivers, waterfalls, lakes, hills, cliffs and even "single ancient trees."

While other tribes were selling vast areas of land to the Federal Government, he argued that land, like air and water, was the common possession of all Indians, not the property of any single group.

On 7 May 1251 Avignon was made a common possession of counts Charles of Anjou and Alphonse de Poitiers, brothers of French king Saint Louis IX.

What appears to be the strongest argument in favor of Ohuhu-Obowo kinship is their common possession of a peculiar deity - Ajana which stood supreme in both clans and belonged exclusively to both.

The collection also includes two documents that are versions of the Old Text chapters "Common Possession of Pure Virtue" and "Charge to Yue", confirming that the "rediscovered" versions are forgeries.

It is already clear from ultrastructural features that the genus Selenomonas is most probably an artificial classification, bringing together possibly unrelated organisms, simply because of their common possession of crescent morphology and peculiar flagellar insertion location.

Yet, as Gabriel Josipovici points out, "this sense of somehow having arrived too late, of having lost for ever something that was once a common possession, is a, if not the, key Romantic concern" (What Ever Happened to Modernism?

He especially loved to treat in his homilies of the events and personages of Biblical history; and many beautiful and genuinely poetic embellishments of the Biblical record, which have become common possession of the aggadah, are his creations.