Sentence examples for within one's power from inspiring English sources

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.

It is enough for one to have chosen freely to throw out the trash if it was within one's power to have done otherwise (many philosophers would say even that is conceding too much to the determinist); there is no need for it also to be true that one freely chose to have the desire for cleanliness.

Rationality, "one's total commitment … to the maintenance of a full mental focus in all issues, in all choices … to the fullest perception of reality within one's power" (1961b, p. 28), is the basic virtue of which the other virtues are aspects or derivatives.

Responsibility can be defined as the ability to be answerable or accountable for something within one's power, control or management.

In short, it is in no way within one's mental power to determine objectively which objectives have the modal moment.

In GynEcology the emphasis is on the power "to spin" meaning out of women's own divine orbs and to find the power of being within one's self.

My audience research also revealed that audience appeal is maximized when the hero faces multiple types of challenges in the same story, such as struggles against evil, struggles with friends and acquaintances, struggles with a higher power, and struggles within one's own family.

Living within one's means.

The fault detection algorithm can detect the presence of a fault within one power cycle.

Border zone (Fig 8G) was defined as the area within one 20×-power field from the edges of the scar.