The therapist helps the patient to heighten awareness of the conse- quences of actions and of the price of willful attachment to getting one's own way.

Power clearly has something to do with 'getting one's own way' and the behaviourist approach involves studying actual behaviour to see which groups or individuals get their own way in cases of decision-making where there is an observable conflict.

James Strachey concluded that 'indeed, she was a very formidable person'; and when in her paper on "Hate" she wrote of 'an elation which is pleasurable on overcoming an obstacle, or on getting one's own way' she may (as so often) have been rooting her comments in personal experience.

You're used to getting your own way, and you like to run the show.

Being rich and strong does not mean you always get your own way.

Do you normally get your own way in most things?"

Is it really so important to you to get your own way?'

Yes, thought Lambert, providing you can get your own way without it.

Shout at people, get your own way, ignore the rules.

Makes it too easy to get your own way.

It's all experience and that's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything.

You are just building on this wild supposition to try and get your own way!

You're far from stupid, and I've noticed that you usually manage to get your own way.

You don't care about anyone or anything, except getting your own way."

"You always get your own way in the end.

It's need to get your own way, to win.

"Don't you think there might be a better method to get your own way?

Blackmail and bullying should not be a method of getting your own way.

"Getting your own way by threading through rules and obligations, I mean."

'All you care about is being boss and getting your own way.

You always were spoiled, and petty, if you did not get your own way.

Offering financial inducements to get your own way is called bribery.

Oh, you were a great one for getting your own way with me, but you never gave me anything in return.

Does being assertive mean getting your own way?

Sometimes it was better not to get your own way than to face Mom's and Dad's frailty.

You always have had the damnedest way of getting your own way."

Don't smack her, as this only underlines the fact that aggression can help you get your own way.

You get your own way in our argument, don't you?"

I can see you mean to have your own way.

The joy of being single is you always get to have your own way.

You cannot have your own way all the time.

That's what comes of letting you have your own way!"

In the end they'd said okay, have your own way, but be careful, stay clear of the cloud.

No, for you have your own way to go, which will put you far beyond my reach.

There are bound to be other people who will object to letting you have your own way all the time.

"Have your own way, since you are the King," he growled.

"I understand about aviation, and how you folks have your own way of doing business.

You're used to having your own way, just like your daddy.

Well, you have your own ways in the Navy, I see.

And you must have your own ways of testing for falsehood."

'To having your own way at any expense to others.

You shouldn't have insisted on having your own way.

"You still have your own way of tidying up."

Leonard, I must impress upon you the fact that you have your own way to make.

"The truth is, you do like to have your own way about things, don't you?"

I think it's time I stopped letting you have your own way."

"You had your own way over this house."

"Well," said the Dwarf, "as you've saved my life it is only fair you should have your own way.

Then the witch said, "Well, have your own way.

And when you had to burn to have your own way, you always wanted to have it.

Definitely self-assured, even arrogant, used to having your own way."

And you, Brothers, have your own way to go, in less haste than my way, but not to be delayed, either.

"Well, have your own way, but it's a sacrifice," grumbled the clerk.