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Men and women who of their own volition have said they are willing to lay down their lives for a country they believe in.
Yet volition is the one thing that a free individual cannot voluntarily relinquish.
The girls having reached the age of discretion, had, of their own volition, accompanied the men of their choice, the Bench said.
The major modification was in the addition of competencies in the domains of affect and conation or volition.
This sounds piggish, but my wife, of her own volition, has been going to weight watchers and lost 25 lb so far, about 5 lb a month.
Obviously, drinking and intoxication by alcohol complicated notions of individual autonomy and free volition.
Isn't it a system of different canals, bones and nerves that communicate with one another in a set pattern and without volition?
It is a failure of volition, but it's an overwhelming drive that absolutely crushes volition.
Autonomy is a matter of volition, the ability to act according to our internalised values and desires.
He was a free party to this negotiation and entered into the agreement of his own free volition.
Just leave the sulled animal alone for a while and eventually it will awaken from its stupor under its own volition.
If you choose to engage in these activities it is by your own free will and at your own volition.
His mind, his understanding, his heart and affections, his will and volition are all corrupted.
We recently had more than 200 pupils staying on after school to do sport of their own volition.
What I don't like is that some truly great people have left the company, not of their own volition.
But he erroneously confounds appetency and volition together as the same functions of one power.
Now I've been on a lot of shidduchim in my life, and not all of my own volition.
I know, and it would be a different situation if we had made the choice of our own volition to stay here.
If you cannot have it by its own total free will and volition, it will never be yours.
Such a course of action, he points out, requires a choice based on morality and a conscious act of volition on his part.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But in her heart she was convinced of its predetermination by some power other than her own volition.
This was due largely to the walkout of the railroad men employed in the mill yards, who acted on their own volition.
They absorb, without volition, their part of the atmosphere of devil-may-care.
Like a sprinter his volition was fixed on a goal, beyond which lay collapse.
When the power of volition is abolished, the other sensorial actions are increased.
These are separable in thought, but united in any act of sensation, reflection, or volition.
They talk about having faith, as if it could be done by an act of volition.
It is from the combination and the workings of these wonderful powers that appetency, desires, aversions, and volition arise.
To begin with, Monism excludes the possibility of volition being determined by cerebration.
We can observe and colligate the facts of emotion and volition, as we can observe the position of the stars and the laws of heat.
The independent volition of Quakerism is one of their prime peculiarities.
It seemed to have a vast inorganic life of its own, a volition and a whim.
Miss Georgie did not often send that last word of her own volition.
Nor is the One describable in terms of volition or activity.
The determinist asserts that no other volition could have occurred.
The power of volition and self-direction was very nearly gone.
Nor is it a caprice, that is, motiveless volition, or will as a motor.
She opened the outer door, and Mattie had no volition but to go.
The dove did not bring the olive branch of her own volition.
So in regard to other forms, the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
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