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The U.S. gun ownership rate is the highest in the world.
They disputed the ownership of the land for years.
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I told you I got a message to come here and bring legal proof of my half ownership 'The Sally Ann Mine'.
Where's your ownership card?
We'll leave the problem of ownership to the French courts.
France is going to uphold that ownership.
I want some information about the ownership of a claim registered under the name of Flapjack Simms.
Once the ownership of your mine has been established through legal channels, it can never be disputed again.
I have the ownership papers right here with me.
We'll need a pre-dated transfer of ownership. -You want it immediately?
The ownership certificate says he owns it.
The wonder of ownership.
You seem to have been having difficulty in proving your ownership.
A law through which they appointed themselves commissioners. with power to rule on the ownership of every maverick branded.
Or is it a brand of ownership?
And I, too, am looking for signs of ownership.
Here is your title of ownership, a plow and a horse to go with it, and a rifle to defend yourself against those bastards.
Once the ownership of your mine has been legally established it can never be disputed again.
Iove is a state of confusion in which the victim cannot distinguish. between spiritual aspiration, carnal desire, and pride of ownership.
Mr. Tako claims ownership for himself. and the Pacific Pharmaceutical Company. and is flying out to greet his expedition.
Your Highness, I read there was a dispute over the ownership of the Pink Panther.
Tonight's the night. I bet the stones. will be changing the ownership.
In the long history of the jade seal, no one who has pretended to ownership has survived for more than 14 days and 14 nights.
How can this be for a man used to the idea of order. of the future and, above all, of ownership?
He has these ownership needs.
There was a change of ownership in Eunha Study Motel around last year.
He signed the deed of ownership over to someone else.
He puts his seal of ownership on everything.
Madam, can you furnish any proof of ownership?
Your pink slip, certificate of ownership.
Sure, but before you transfer title, you must prove legal ownership.
On the contrary, General. Iove is a state of confusion in which the victim cannot distinguish. between spiritual aspiration, carnal desire, and pride of ownership.
If I'm not being too nosy, Your Highness. I read somewhere there was some dispute over the ownership of the Pink Panther.
A mate invited me into part ownership with nine other guys, so I own one tenth of the yacht.
News and current affairs
Concentration of media ownership and control further fuels popular mistrust, setting the stage for citizen investigation to enter the vacuum.
Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two-thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.
He instituted a severe crackdown on gun ownership, and forced would-be gun owners to submit to a rigorous application process, and to document why they would need a gun.
Conditions for gun ownership in Australia are now very strict, and the registration and approval process can take a year or more.
The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.
Since citizens' militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
As a result, gun ownership has become perversely linked to freedom in the vast gun-owning American sub-culture.
The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world's vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.
Simply put, freedom in the twenty-first century does not depend on unregulated gun ownership.
America reels from one shooting disaster to the next, and on nearly every occasion, politicians dutifully declare their continued devotion to unregulated gun ownership.
Australia and other countries provide models of how to do it: regulate and limit gun ownership to approved uses.
America's TV ownership is almost entirely in private hands, and owners make much of their money through relentless advertising.
By returning most state-owned industries to private ownership, the Thatcher revolution killed off state socialism.
In Europe, America, and Japan, media ownership is increasingly concentrated, which rightly worries citizens in these countries, particularly when media owners move from forming opinion to forming governments.
How much more worrying, then, is such concentrated ownership in new democracies and developing countries, where the check of civil society is mostly absent?
We Europeans must favor stability, create a real spirit of co-ownership, and promote political responsibility.In this new framework, the EU should avoid excessive conditionality, especially during the transition period.
The New Deal recognizes what the history of peace-building teaches us: national leadership and ownership of agendas are key to achieving visible and sustainable results.
And, as President Barack Obama has said, the Libyan people must not be deprived of full ownership of their struggle for freedom, and Qaddafi must not be given a useful foil and scapegoat.
Moreover, the US Treasury has structured its Capital Purchase Program with disincentives for long-term government ownership.
Argentina was praised for allowing large foreign ownership of banks.
According to a 2007 survey, the United States is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of gun ownership, with 90 guns for every 100 citizens.
In particular, whereas ownership rights over natural resources in the US typically belong to the individual owner of the land under which the resources lie, in Europe ownership belongs to the state.