Adjective : He spent only his own money. ,He insists on being his own doctor. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : They own several homes. ,to own a fault. ,He owned his child before the entire assembly. They owned the king as their lord. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The one who did it had better own up. I own to being uncertain about that. From Dictionary.com.
But maybe things are different in other states, and their airports are in some kind of unowned status whereby state law would not apply?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges for the White House State Dinner Crashers?] Reference
German soldier caught her an unowned pig of larger size. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
As with any unowned property it should be open to homesteading. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Should We Teach Law Students the Rule Against Perpetuities?] Reference
Most of time and space is like Antarctica, untouched and unowned. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
In most cases natural capital is unowned and consequently nonmarketed. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference
The wind is unowned and any one who will may harness it to do his work. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Even if it wasn't strategic, it was a decision made with an unowned bias. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Sinkford: Continental YRUU will be replaced.] Reference
There he lay, unowned, unknown, exposed to the flippant curiosity of a French mob!. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
How initially unowned resources become privately owned is an interesting question. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims] Reference
So somebody dumped waste in Somali waters and somebody else "stole" the unowned fish. From Wordnik.com. [You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up....] Reference
He deals with this by suggesting that individuals be able to homestead unowned resources. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 13, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The state began to parcel out unowned land and unused state and community land to peasants. From Wordnik.com. [3. The Middle East and Egypt, 1943-2000] Reference
The corporation becomes, in effect, a mass of unowned capital appropriated by the managers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Our fathers found an unowned continent, with all its rich resources of soil and forests and mines. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
The electric forces of nature are unowned, whoever will may gather and direct them to do his purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
We can take some reassurance, too, from the fact that mutts, owned and unowned, will always be with us. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth About Dogs] Reference
But he sure seems to get that the Net is an unowned conversation, and that his constituents are talking. From Wordnik.com. [The new populism] Reference
Well of course, there is very little land at least in Western legal systems that is truly “unowned”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lorax and the Tragedy of the Commons:] Reference
Time for a complete house cleaning, replace them all with unowned independents this next two times around. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Pennsylvania's fall Senate race all tied up] Reference
"Having been unowned, " he said, -it seems natural, then, to assume that you are inexperienced and untrained. From Wordnik.com. [Kajira Of Gor]
Start thinking of property as all the property of individuals, unjustly acquired property or unowned property. From Wordnik.com. [It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
(For example, I can appropriate land for myself if it is unowned and there is enough good land left for others.). From Wordnik.com. [The Right to Be Rich or Poor] Reference
But it does not "own" everything, or even everything that is otherwise unowned, including commons and rights of way. From Wordnik.com. [Is There a Right to Immigrate?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Then s/he can purchase property as yet unowned to undertake his/her vision of just living with other like-minded folks. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Palin, Ignorance, and Stupidity Revisited] Reference
I thought it was a beautiful analysis but I keep coming back to this concept of "unowned things" and the inherent just power of it. From Wordnik.com. [How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony] Reference
The fear is not unfounded, but neither is government ownership any proof against the unowned global marketplace's demand for efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Deal of the Century] Reference
"Truly unowned" as in "truly, a commons owned collectively by the native American tribes that were living there for thousands of years"?. From Wordnik.com. [A Loony Idea] Reference
Instead, unclaimed and unowned, it remained tantalizingly available to the first squatter who took up residence on it and was prepared to defend his right to stay. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
A man reverses the divine order and degrades himself, and becomes a gross idolater, when he serves things unowned instead of commanding their service, "stocks and stones.". From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
There he lay, unowned, unknown, exposed to the flippant curiosity of a. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
At the close of the civil war, Texas was full of unbranded and unowned cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado] Reference
Pining under the miseries of an unowned marriage, she is fast dying of pressure on the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
For property in land was always based upon the supposition that unowned land could not be cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
With an unowned "commons," each individual has an incentive to get the most out of it without putting anything back. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It follows then that each person justly owns whatever previously unowned resources he appropriates or 'mixes his labor with'. From Wordnik.com. [Attack the System] Reference
Atlas as into lands unowned and undefined, and were quite astonished to hear of claimants for their newly acquired lands and farms. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
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