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at pleasure

Meaning

at pleasure

By arbitrary will or choice.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. Marquis de Sade

Is the Airship Possible? That depends, first of all, on whether we are to make the requisite scientific discoveries... the construction of an aerial vehicle ... which could carry even a single man from place-to-place at pleasure requires the discovery of some new metal or some new force. Simon Newcomb

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. Lysander Spooner

To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation. Andrew Jackson

Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure. German Proverb

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