Possessor

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Knowledge is a treasure that goes everywhere with its possessor.

He was the president of the Town and Country Club and, besides owning a splendid stud, was also the possessor of a genuine Gainsborough.

Political life, as a whole, is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that, most of all, guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

When students fear that their peers will report them, they are less likely to display their guns; when students are reluctant to display them, guns become less valuable for conveying information about attitudes and intentions. In addition, the perception that onlookers are willing to sell out possessors counteracts the inference that possessors enjoy high status among their peers.