get one's way

Idioms  

1. Also,. Be allowed to or make others do as one wishes. For example, Two-year-olds often scream until they get their own way, or All right, I give in—have it your own way. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

He says this includes the "misuse of power to get people into jobs, and personal ties enabling access to the Taliban very much improving ones chances to get one's way in land, water or other resource conflicts".

From BBC

“No disruption or physical threat existed. The use of police to get one’s way in the classroom is institutional violence. We support our students of color as they deal with the trauma of these events and navigate its fallout.”

From Seattle Times

A belief that one must do what is right, regardless of the consequences is just as irrational from the point of view of game theory as a threat to cut one’s wrists if one doesn’t get one’s way on some small matter.

From Forbes

In other words, the way to get one's way with people is to know and extend one's consciousness down deeper into one's subconsciousness in one's own mind, so that one draws on the conscious and the subconscious in one's own mind at will, so that gradually having the habit of drawing on the conscious and the subconscious in one's own mind at will, one soon makes oneself master of the conscious and the subconscious in the minds of others.

From Project Gutenberg

Ah! that's all very fine," cried George; "but how is one to get one's way without?

From Project Gutenberg