Possession example sentences

The economic wealth, or well-being, of a country thus does not necessarily depend on the mere possession of resources; the point is how these resources are used in generating a flow of production and how, as a consequence, income and wealth are generated from that process.When such events take place, people suddenly lose all their possessions and have to face poverty.In the late nineteenth century, European imperial powers scrambled for territorial possessions in Africa, slicing up the region into different colonies.There was a time when possession of natural resources was the most important consideration but even then the resource had to be transformed through a production process.“I was not even outside the gate when they burnt the house” … She was standing on the street in the rain with no house, no husband, no possessions but the clothes she was wearing.However, its assets also go up by Rs 100 by the possession of this cheque, which is a claim on RBI.The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice states: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Rich mineral deposits are our country s extremely valuable but short-lived possessions.Of course, the importer has to first pay the freight charges (if these have not been paid by the exporter) before he or she can take possession of the goods.It announces a new kind of novel that will deal with the question of land and its possession.The Webster dictionary defines it as “possession of the qualities required to do something or get something done”.