Will-power Sentence Examples

I sure didn't have that much will power.

With every scrap of will power she possessed, she resisted the urge to help him with the buttons.

When carried to excess it becomes an inveterate habit; but this happens chiefly in individuals of weak will-power, who would just as easily become the victims of intoxicating drinks, and who are practically moral imbeciles, often addicted also to other forms of depravity.

It was designed to hold the enemy in position by the vigour of its attack, thus neutralizing his independent will power and compelling him to expend his reserves in the effort to rescue the troops engaged.

Hence, when on the battlefield the changing course of events left his antagonists mentally exhausted, he was able to face them with will power neither bound nor broken.

His will-power had early been undermined by the opium habit, and was further weakened by the sensual excesses that ultimately killed him.

But though his natural defects of intellect and will-power were not improved by the pedantic tutoring to which he was submitted, he grew up pious, honest and well-meaning; and had fate cast him in any but the most stormy times of his country's history he might well have left the reputation of a model king.

Nevertheless, her cleverness, volubility, energy and will-power enabled her to maintain her ground, and when she died on the 8th of May 1891 (White Lotus Day), at the theosophical headquarters in the Avenue Road, London, she was the acknowledged head of a community numbering not far short of 100,000, with journalistic organs in London, Paris, New York and Madras.

Moreover, the reactions seem to follow the sense impressions with such fatality, that, as an inference, absence of will-power to control them or suppress them is suggested.

Preyer's view is that the essential condition for initiation is fatigue of the will-power under a prolonged effort of undivided attention.

You're looking fab, wish I had you're will power!

Sometimes sheer will power has to make it roll the way you want.

In a moralistic or a strong-willed mother the morality or the strong will power go hand-in-hand with a dominant sense of pride.

We use this type of battery because it is the smallest battery which will power a vibrator motor properly.

After a few strikes, your melee combat icon in the lower right corner will power up, allowing you to de deliver a slower, yet more powerful and also unblockable strike.

He isn't above asserting his desire and will power to achieve whatever he decides to pursue, including you.

Zen clocks are battery powered and 4 'c' batteries will power the clock for approximately two years when used every day.

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