at one's disposal

Example Sentences

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But what is fifty miles when one is under the wing of the Railway King and can have a special engine at one's disposal.

From Letters from England by Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis

In any case the impulse is to investigate the form and structure as far as the means at one’s disposal will permit.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton

Hence, in its construction, the prime necessity of calculating what work it has to do, also the quantity of the materials one has at one's disposal.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

That depends entirely upon one's energy, one's capacity for taking pains, one's neatness of finger, and the time at one's disposal.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.

Carnot perceived very clearly the great fact that, to produce work by heat, it is necessary to have at one's disposal a fall of temperature.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien