Sentence examples for in willpower from inspiring English sources

Have we suffered a general collapse in willpower?

Typically, the study's subjects could squeeze a handgrip for only 25 seconds after an exercise in willpower.

The "will" in willpower is not some mysterious "free will," a ghost in the machine that can do as it pleases, but a part of the machine itself.

In "Willpower," he has teamed up with the irreverent New York Times science columnist John Tierney to explain this ingenious research and show how it can enhance our lives.

To be sure, as L'Heureux reminds us on nearly every page, people are imperfect, lacking in willpower, infirm in their beliefs, their lives cluttered and unfocused, their character traits largely impervious to change.

Unsurprisingly for a book aimed at a US readership, there's rather a lot about fatty-snacking in Willpower, and also unsurprisingly, Tierney is keen to reassure his high-BMI audience that the reason they can't drop the poundage has little to do with deficient willpower.

As a general surgeon certified by the American Board of Surgery, I wish to comment on a misconception in "Willpower-Free Dieting" (May 12, p. 159).

Mr Sarkozy was referring to the fatalism of the French, but his missionary faith in political willpower is needed still more in France's moribund neighbour, Germany.

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

"Decision in war is always the result of a fight, and in combat willpower always counts for more than foreknowledge," he argues.

His own conclusion, hammered home again and again, is that "decision in war is always the result of a fight, and in combat willpower always counts for more than foreknowledge.