I rarely attend meetings of my own volition. From LearnThat.org.
Followed my father of my own volition. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The exercise of their volition we construe as revolt- George Meredith. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action, or its forbearance, is that which we call volition or willing. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
It is true, there is a thing which we call volition, or an act of the mind; but this does not produce the external change by which it is followed. From Wordnik.com. [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference
The difficulty is to use it, to make the effort which the word volition implies. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
This system presides over the functions of animal life known as volition, sensation, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath] Reference
Every human action is caused by the person's volition, which is caused by a certain motive. From Wordnik.com. [Guess Who Was At The Party?] Reference
Not one thing, but a series of two things: the state of mind called a volition, followed by an effect. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The psychical forces are concerned with free volition, that is to say, impulsive movement and sensation. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
The peculiar nature of that thing called volition, can do nothing, can have no influence, while it is not. From Wordnik.com. [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference
But he who exercises volition, that is to say the subsistence, for instance Peter, is spoken of as willing. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
We still ask, How can a man be responsible for an act, or volition, which is necessitated to arise in his mind by. From Wordnik.com. [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference
When natural causes are liable to be set aside and neutralised by what is called volition, the word Science is out of place. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
When natural causes are liable to be set aside and neutralized by what is called volition, the word Science is out of place. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists] Reference
If a drug-trained dog decides to jump in of her own volition, that is considered sufficient probable cause for a legal search. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
But those objective adjustments which fit it to emerge and seek in an outer world its full expression I shall call the volition (B). From Wordnik.com. [The Nature of Goodness] Reference
When the sensorial faculty of desire or aversion is exerted so as to cause fibrous motions, it is termed volition; which is said in Sect. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
One more time: a volunteer gives of his or her own volition which is why it is to be admired. From Wordnik.com. ["Barack Obama will require you to work."] Reference
Some admirable writers have a repugnance to using the word "volition" in speaking of the brutes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
There is no feeling and no volition which is not for the phenomenalist a content of consciousness and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Its force is borrowed entirely from a prior volition which is accounted as continuing in some result produced by it. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Now, the knowledge that we are thus restricted as to bodily action imposes that kind of restraint upon volition which is termed rational. From Wordnik.com. [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference
His landlord said Mr. Farnes left of his own volition. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Tailor Needles Savile Row, Gets Himself a (Law)Suit] Reference
No, any action we take on earth is of our own volition. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
My hand moved towards it, apparently of its own volition. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
(Today, 70 percent enter hospitals of their own volition.). From Wordnik.com. [Hidden From View] Reference
This accounts for their capacity for sensation and volition. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
And the nature of the soul at this stage is volition throughout. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
"I don't think Hollywood is going to change of its own volition.". From Wordnik.com. [CHANGE OF DIRECTION] Reference
Most experts resist the notion that Halcion can steal a person's volition. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Dreams Or Nightmare?] Reference
A single volition puts him in touch with the characters and the movement of the tale. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
They aren't drafted; they, of their own volition, raised their right hand and took an oath to serve. From Wordnik.com. ['My Other Family'] Reference
When you sit long enough the low-lying scrub begin to sway not with the wind but of their own volition. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Big Sur] Reference
But it seems right to treat as willed by man much more than falls under the head of conscious and deliberate volition. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Those people will look back on this time and see this was when they chose to live as a conscious act, an act of volition. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Judith Rich: Growing Through Adversity: Victim or Victorious?] Reference
They robbed me of my consciousness, of my power of volition, of my capacity to think, -- they made me as wax in her hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
But when he placed it on the ground, to rest his jaw I'm guessing, the tiny creature twitched and turned on its own volition. From Wordnik.com. [Cat crunch] Reference
It is clear to me that it had reached the point where her dreams had as much control over her body as her own waking volition. From Wordnik.com. [After the Badlands] Reference
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