Possession in a sentence as a noun

I would have said "removing the data from his possession"

Yet no other man was more modest in the possession of the power that is knowledge, more sure that power without wisdom is deadly.

Clearly Apple has all the necessary tools in their possession to fix this problem: they own the source to both Keynote '09 and the latest Keynote.

I suspect that many other people, including criminals and certain types of marketeers are in possession of similar books.

Decriminalization essentially means that possession of small amounts of ***** is no longer an offense that warrants an arrest and jail time.

The Cartesian experiments were something like a litmus test for acidity: they sought to determine whether an object has a certain property, in this case, possession of mind, one aspect of the world.

" -- John Carmack[1] "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

Possession definitions

noun

the act of having and controlling property

See also: ownership

noun

anything owned or possessed

noun

being controlled by passion or the supernatural

noun

a mania restricted to one thing or idea

See also: monomania

noun

a territory that is controlled by a ruling state

noun

the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

See also: self-control self-possession willpower self-command self-will

noun

(sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck); "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"