at one's disposal

Example Sentences

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To have a sixty Daimler at one's disposal would be convenient, but as it would generally include Angy Beerhaven as chauffeur, Esm� shrugged her shoulders.

From The Oyster by Peer

In such case it is also preferable to use a machine with multiple circuits, as in many experiments it is useful and convenient to have at one's disposal currents of different phases.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Martin, Thomas Commerford

By taking better-known meanings and associating them,—the attained store of meanings of the community in which one resides is put at one's disposal.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

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