as one pleases
Example Sentences
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Inami's team is developing a series of technologies rooted in the idea of "jizai", an Japanese term that he says roughly denotes autonomy and the freedom to do as one pleases.
From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2023
“The real meaning of liberty: the power to do as one pleases, the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges, it’s the power of choice,” notes another.
From Washington Times • Feb. 13, 2023
It is not much fun, nor ultimately even very freeing, to be left alone to do entirely as one pleases.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2011
He writes about the Caribbean custom of doing as one pleases, then asking "forgiveness, not permission," but when he's repeatedly denied permission to land his seaplane in the waters along his route, he obeys.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are covered walks, tunnel-like, which in summer one may walk through or on top of as one pleases.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
