Sentence examples for one's powers from inspiring English sources

Confidence is defined as "belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities".

Abandoning a theory rich enough in predictive power to be the unifying principle of biology because one cannot imagine a sequence of steps by which selection could achieve this or that complex adaptation places a premium on one's powers of imagination that most evolutionary biologists find unacceptable.

If one's threats are sufficiently credible, and if meeting one's demands is not devastating in itself, one may be able to leverage one's powers to influence many of the activities of others, while only rarely being required to expend one's powers in enforcement.

If one's powers and wishes are well enough known through past demonstrations, one may even be able to avoid making many overt threats while still getting one's way.

To apply one's powers of discernment to doughnuts.

"This is so unique that it exceeds one's powers of imagination," said Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.

"One's power over events is closely dependent on one's power to foresee," Miceli, of Rome's Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, has written about this kind of anxiety, "because 'if I cannot foresee, I cannot act.'" It is, in essence, a kind of magical thinking that masquerades as rational.

"One should, therefore, do everything in one's power to ensure that the journalist understands what one is trying to communicate and that he has received all the information required for a good article".

The striving to preserve and augment one's power, which constitutes one's actual essence (EIIIP7), provides a standard for moral judgments: things are good or bad to the extent that they aid or diminish one's power of acting (Curley 1973).

Rawls defines self-respect as including "a person's sense of his own value, his secure conviction that his conception of the good, his plan of life, is worth carrying out," and it implies "a confidence in one's ability, so far as it is within one's power, to fulfill one's intentions" (Rawls 1971, 440).

Finally, there are future events lying beyond one's influence that one expects only to conform with past experience and there are indeterminate projects that provide direction — not too tightly, though — as one gives shape to what is within one's power.