skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "voluntary" in a sentence

    voluntary example sentences

    voluntary


    1. The client is willing to be treated and the counseling is voluntary


    2. Ordinarily ‘Rest’ means stopping all voluntary activities (you still have to breath or digest food or cause the blood to circulate)


    3. There was another faction who felt that it was acceptable to do daily business with the locals but retain their own culture with no more 'political boundary' than land ownership, and a third group who wanted to remain in voluntary association like the core of any other ethnic group, but not be required to join one contiguous territory


    4. He was of the 'Culturalist' faction that desired to preserve what they could of Brazilian culture in this new world on a voluntary basis


    5. wishes (it should be voluntary and private) she or he may devout this fast to


    6. techniques for the betterment of another on a one-on-one voluntary basis


    7. Mum didn’t write though, she was a housewife and pottered about doing various voluntary jobs, especially when Chris and I got a bit older


    8. There were some voluntary organizations in the cities that coordinated certain projects but they were more like a chamber of commerce or volunteer group


    9. Without the establishment of some regular government of this kind, without some authority to compel their inhabitants to act according to some certain plan or system, no voluntary league of mutual defence could either have afforded them any permanent security, or have enabled them to give the king any considerable support


    10. Tithes are unknown among them; and their clergy, who are far from being numerous, are maintained either by moderate stipends, or by the voluntary contributions of the people

    11. of men, it will have to be a voluntary army,


    12. The teachers of the doctrine which contains this instruction, in the same manner as other teachers, may either depend altogether for their subsistence upon the voluntary contributions of their hearers; or they may derive it from some other fund, to which the law of their country may entitle them ; such as a landed estate, a tythe or land tax


    13. The independent provisions, however, which in many places have been made for dissenting teachers, by means of voluntary subscriptions, of trust rights, and other evasions of the law, seem very much to have abated the zeal and activity of those teachers


    14. In a small republic, where the people have entire confidence in their magistrates, are convinced of the necessity of the tax for the support of the state, and believe that it will be faithfully applied to that purpose, such conscientious and voluntary payment may sometimes be expected


    15. voluntary, and what he can avoid if he chuses to do so


    16. If you except, however, this very peculiar situation, any inequality in the contribution of individuals which can arise from such taxes, is much more than compensated by the very circumstance which occasions that inequality; the circumstance that every man's contribution is altogether voluntary ; it being altogether in his power, either to consume, or not to consume, the commodity taxed


    17. Her murderer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, receiving a sentence of only 22 to 29 years, with the possibility of parole


    18. An evil (or sinful) act is oftentimes voluntary (on the part of the sinner) however guided by (―involuntary‖) passions whose


    19. On the other hand, (Right) Reason would never allow any individual to voluntary seek his or her own (moral or spiritual) corruption without first giving that individual sufficient pause to consider its harmful effects


    20. He placed little faith in the efficacy of legal and social institutions as potential forces for promoting (attitudinal) change that (otherwise) required a voluntary change of ―heart‖ in order to eliminate the prevailing social injustices directed against the poorer classes at that time

    21. The (critical) assumption of inevitable consequences as they relate to voluntary designs, however essential to the formation of sound moral character, does not predispose a Will to Good; that is to say, Free Will does not dictate the


    22. Theoretically voluntary and for their protection, removal was by force


    23. ‖ This ―unbroken chain of events,‖ that finds ostensible expression in future behavior, is irreconcilable, it would seem, with causal/effects partially achieved in conjunction with problematical outcomes, that, in any event, could neither shape nor influence an uncertain future unless its ―collective actions‖ were uniformly mapped out, absent the intervention of Accident or Chance or other contaminating elements occasioned by voluntary actions not in keeping with ―programmed‖ designs that would (otherwise) render such a scenario, unthinkable; that is to say, there are far too many contending variables that need to be factored into the equation


    24. “Although compliance is voluntary, most realize it’s in their own best interest to reduce consumption


    25. [58] The voluntary union of two Aberdeen congregations – West Church of Saint Andrew and Saint Nicholas (Union Grove) – to form the Langstane Kirk was a rare example


    26. It exhibits that rivers of money enter and they go out without solving the problems because everything thoroughly enters lost as the organizational resources (goods, products, money and voluntary donation of services) for the Third Sector or State in form of tributes, donations or financial resources


    27. In consequence, the Third Sector (nonprofit organizations) it stays in the eternal dependence of resources to help, even with the force of million of voluntary people XUSING Project: Beta Version in English - 2005


    28. Every process happens without the utilization of the physical money or official coin for all the participators of this Project, such as: benefited people, lacking people, voluntary people, Social Philanthropy Networks, Use Network, Solidary Economy Network, Economy of Communion, Global Ecovillage Network, Red de Trueque Solidario, Ethical Bank, altruistic people’s communities (forum, debates, BBS), Kibbutz, among others


    29. The people enter in the process of Bank3Sector in a voluntary way with own resources of products or services


    30. c) Government becomes bigger and more onerous, as the voluntary sector shrinks

    31. As for their minor peccadilloes at home, they kept sharp tabs on each other and gamely underwent their selfimposed punishment--generally a voluntary absence from some gay Friday night frolic in Rainbow Valley, or a sojourn in bed on some spring evening when all young bones ached to be out and away


    32. No one was forced to go on campaign; it was always voluntary


    33. their consent and the voluntary consent of the congregation


    34. period of time, and these only by their consent and the voluntary consent of


    35. George Washington served as President from 1789 until his voluntary retirement at the end of his second term in 1797


    36. M: This is not the same as voluntary sharing


    37. iety it should be voluntary


    38. much that is voluntary in a ‘voluntary’ sadhana


    39. Sadly they were voluntary victims during the witch-hunts and they were so brave


    40. “He wrote memos asking for further investigation and a voluntary halt to sales of the

    41. Any way back to academia, because the Law Reviewers had cushy jobs lined up after successful second year internships with hot shit firms in LA, SF, Chicago, and NYC, classes were perfunctory, attendance voluntary, no hard academic work was done by any of the five of us


    42. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:


    43. but a voluntary obedience unto His revealed will, of which each


    44. are pursuing some form of voluntary simplicity, according to Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute in New York


    45. The contemporary voluntary simplicity movement began in 1981 with the publication of Duane Elgin's book, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich


    46. Rather, the prevailing philosophy of today's voluntary simplicity movement is not to live without possessions or to live in frugality, but to slow down and live a more balanced, deliberate, and thoughtful life


    47. So that to him that could see the connexion of those causes, the necessity of all men’s voluntary actions, would appear manifest


    48. Vice does not leave voluntary, it has to be evicted, sometimes violently


    49. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:


    50. But it must be completely voluntary, for only then can you take pleasure from pain








































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "voluntary"

    voluntary military volunteer volunteer wanton considered conscious advised designed premeditated deliberate

    "voluntary" definitions

    (military) a person who freely enlists for service


    composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance


    of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled


    controlled by individual volition