Provided that such variations are not too great a handicap to their possessors in the struggle for existence, natural selection will allow them to persist.
This resemblance is said to be the result of natural selection, since it enables itspossessors to escape destruction; they are seen, but mistaken for something else.
Where such markings occur on gregarious animals, Wallace believes that they have been evolved by natural selection, either to enable their possessors to recognize one another, or to act as a danger signal to their fellows.
Its possessors are handicapped by bad eyesight, and so have no chance of surviving in the struggle for existence.
The same fate has overtaken the producing classes; they have failed to maintain themselves, and have become subjects of the possessors of hoarded wealth.
Apparently the possessors of much, in reality you are masters of nothing; and more than this, you do not enjoy any portion of your natural liberty.
They learned by signs, however, from the Abenaquais, that she was a lady of a noble family in Acadia which had mingled its patrician blood with that of the native chiefs and possessors of the soil.
La Corriveau, have you the secret of the aqua tofana, which the world believes was burnt with its possessors two generations ago, on the Place de Grève?
The possession of mere physical or abstract truth does not turn itspossessors into its apostles, but the possession of moral and spiritual truth does.
This superscription was the address of the very person who was likely to be the agent of the former possessors of the diamond, and had attracted attention.
But by means of this last step the former possessors became aware of its loss, and I make no doubt had their agents abroad immediately.
The Roman plebeian was fonder of gazing in the theatre than of working; the taverns and brothels were so frequented, that the demagogues found their special account in gaining the possessors of such establishments over to their interests.
Moreover, as all the large fortunes which are to be met with in a democratic community are of commercial growth, many generations must succeed each other before their possessors can have entirely laid aside their habits of business.
As at any instant these same advantages may be lost, their possessors are constantly on the alert, and make a point of showing that they still retain them.
The possessors were bound to pay a mark a year for every sixty acres, and the lesser ones besides to take the Oath of Supremacy, and engage to admit no recusant as tenant.
Few of the old possessors obtained above a quarter of their lands again, and many were stripped of every acre which they had inherited from their fathers.
He ordered all possessors of lands to bring in their titles to commissioners appointed for the purpose, on the promise that they should receive them again in a more valid and advantageous form.
When young, men and women have good teeth, of fairly good shape and length, and frequently so very firmly set in their sockets as to allow their possessors to lift heavy weights with them, pulling ropes tight, etc.
The second in date of the French possessors of copies of Shakespeare was, strange to say, no less a person than the patron of Racine and Boileau, the Roi-Soleil himself.
O, happy coin, which furnishes mankind with a pleasant and useful beverage and keeps its possessors immune from the hell-born pest of avarice, since it can not be either buried or preserved long.
The Old Testament regarded prophets and kings, and those who were designated to important offices, as the possessors of the Divine Spirit.
We do not want reverence as possessors of mysterious and exclusive powers.
A lofty spirit in which to deal with grave movements of opinion, and likely to lead its possessors to discern truth!
A rule was soon established, that the nobility was inherent to the soil, and consequently that the land ought to transmit to its possessors the rights of nobility.
The Jews at that time were the only possessors of available funds, as they were the only people who trafficked, and who lent money on interest.
In some cases these grants made the possessors almost independent princes.
But both headships could prevent the national consolidation of the countries, Germany and Italy, in which the possessors dwelt.
Under the new conditions cliques or individuals among the gentry could only ally themselves with the possessors of military power, the generals or governors.
Thus, the possessorsof vehicles formed a privileged class in the Shang realm; they became a sort of nobility, and the social organization began to move in the direction of feudalism.
From the first settlement of this colony, one perpetual struggle has subsisted between the Proprietors and possessors of the province.
On the one hand it guaranteed to the possessors full property in the public lands which they held.
Thus we see that the lex Thoria had two main objects in view: (1) The guaranteeing to possessors full property in the land which they occupied.
King Stanislaus realized the utter futility of trying to overtake it with another sailing-vessel even if they had been the possessors of one.
While they were examining the outfit there was much speculation as to whom it belonged, and the only conclusion they could arrive at was that the original possessors had been some itinerant German band.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "possessors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
