one's own will
Example Sentences
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Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect on self-empowerment and recite: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
But because of the transforming nature of forgiveness, coupled with the experience that it involves more than one’s own will, we concluded that it has a spiritual dimension.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2015
Violations of good taste, manners, morals, illegalities, wrongs, crimes—they are all fundamentally the same thing, the insistence on one's own will in defiance of society as a whole.
From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Train, Arthur Cheney
Mainly the bridling of self, the curbing of one's own will, not insisting on forcing one's opinions on one's brother, not being careful of having one's place secured and one's honour asserted.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander
The next rule is personal: the direction of one's own energy in the way of one's own will.
From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
