willpower

McCarthy called the nomination “a good deflection,” hinting at a popular Washington theory that Gaetz, even if defeated, could help Trump win approval of other controversial nominees by using up whatever willpower Republican senators have to take on the new president next year.

The willpower to build more housing often falters in the face of apparently prohibitive costs, political opposition and self-serving incentives, a reality that is playing out on the state and local level.

Maybe this means it wasn’t much of a business to begin with, but, then again, neither are most small businesses; they’re all just held together by duct tape and willpower, and hurricanes test the strength of both of those things.

Instead it was, "I don't feel hungry... my body was saying you don't want it, it wasn't me using willpower," she says.

Sam Bemment, who wrote the report, says the technology for a simple ticketing system already exists but that historically there hasn’t been enough political willpower to put it in place.