left to its own

Synonyms

unsupervised

Examples

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt

Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength. Martin Luther

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I've been set afire. Patrick Rothfuss

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure. Helen Fielding

I hope...Her Majesty's Ministers...will...say that the Soudan must be left to its own people to work out their own deliverance in their own fashion. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Words in the phrase

left to its own

Close letter words and terms

left the city left to chance left to fend for yourself left to one's own devices left to one's own resources left to twist in the wind