At someone’s disposal

Context of At someone's disposal

But film music is, after all, music, and like any meaning system, it depends upon certain forms and structures, and the patterns of meaning contained in them, to make it intelligible. Just as we learn to read a film, that is, to connect specific meanings to the various techniques at the filmmaker’s disposal, so, too, we can learn to read music, that is, to identify the basic building blocks of music at the disposal of the composer, and connect specific meanings to them.

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Examples with At someone's disposal

Facebook and Instagram are both widely used by many people, and if you’re an active Instagram messenger, you might appreciate having a variety of Messenger features at your disposal.

–Technology

The researchers had at their disposal metagenome data from roughly 2,500 stool samples, each containing between one and ten million sequences, resulting in the evaluation of several billion sequences in total.

–Science

While they refused to grant an interview, wage investigators emphasized in an email that their unit takes retaliation seriously and exhausts all the tools at their disposal when confronting employers engaged in retaliatory activities.

–Business

Although Golden State could have still lost even if Green had been on the court during the crucial moments, his struggles with fouls and subsequent ejection exposed the fact that Coach Steve Kerr has only a few reliable options at his disposal in the frontcourt.

–Sports

Considering the wealth of resources and talent at its disposal, critics wonder whether Disney intends to embark on its distinctive path towards a more mature phase.

–Arts and Culture

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