Example Sentences

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Likewise, we all know we need to save for our retirement, but it can be hard to summon the will-power.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2017

While you’re currently short on will-power, you do at least have the gift of sufficient information.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2017

Look at Keiron and there's power there – not just size, either, but will-power.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2010

Jackson expected to be hit first but counted on his will-power to pull him through.

From Time Magazine Archive

And to this physiological fact corresponds the psychological fact that no stronger exertion of will-power is known to us than that sometimes necessary to the attainment of mere passivity.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.