Sentence examples for some willpower from inspiring English sources

It's a regime of meditation, special breathing and cold baths that could take some willpower.

It takes some willpower to allow yourself to be drawn into a tale this delicately told, and this familiar.

They make losing weight sound easy, just a simple matter of doing the math and applying some willpower.

"I realised I must have some willpower and I remembered that my cousin had done Movember a few times before, so I decided to do it too.

Which is why it is going to take some willpower to say "no, I'm not going to be distracted by you my dear phone".

However if you're thinking that all your other half has to do is exercise some willpower you might be surprised to learn that recent research has challenged the idea that obesity is simply the result of the individual "eating too much and doing too little".

"After months of worshipping the earth from the comfort of my living room, sometimes it takes some serious willpower to put on a coat and shoes and get outdoors because it's frankly just more comfortable to meditate on the couch," Weber told The Huffington Post.

Does it reflect some failure of willpower?

Anthony Newman, director of marketing at Cancer Research UK, said: "We know giving up alcohol and taking part in Dryathlon will really test some people's willpower, but we also know it's something lots of people already do successfully.

If by some miracle of willpower you have managed to stick to a healthy diet since the start of the year, just the thought of Nutella melting over hot pancakes on Shrove Tuesday may be enough to send you over the edge and abandon your saintly ways.

Your ability to make the right investment or hiring decision may be reduced simply because you expended some of your willpower earlier when you held your tongue in response to someone's offensive remark or when you exerted yourself to get to the meeting on time".