in one's power
Example Sentences
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In the unfortunate circumstances in which you are placed," he explained, "it seems to me that the least one can do is to offer every assistance in one's power.
From With Edged Tools by Merriman, Henry Seton
It were a pity not to give a human document of this kind all the honour in one's power.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
Overmaster, ō-vėr-mas′tėr, v.t. to subdue, to govern: to get and keep in one's power.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
I don't agree with you," said a gentleman whom I did not know; "impatience sometimes seizes one towards the end of an undertaking, and one employs the readiest means then in one's power.
From Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici by Various
Still, one oughtn't, if possible, to give way to these impulses: one ought to do all that's in one's power to prevent such a miserable termination to one's divinely allotted existence.
From Philistia by Allen, Grant
