in one's power

Example Sentences

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One must do everything in one's power to spare an honourable gentleman such a humiliation.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

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

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

I believe there is hardly a torment equal to that of being ardently drawn to retirement, and not having it in one's power to be retired.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte