A volitional act. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The first conservative assumption is known as a volitional theory of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Blueprint for Resolving the Current Crisis in the American Way of Life « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Reading deliberately undertaken -- what may be called volitional reading -- is no more reading than erudition is culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Vice of Reading] Reference
Dsummoner2000: Your use of the word "volitional" is confusing. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
It wasn ` t volitional by Ms. Bach or her daughters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2007] Reference
The act of focusing one's consciousness is volitional. From Wordnik.com. [The Virtue of Selfishness]
It alone will remove a great deal of her volitional power. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
They do the things in which they have a volitional interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
I am not sure it is an active, malevolent, volitional exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Criticizes New York Times Story On Poll] Reference
The active function performs the volitional, voluntary thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
And also, there are volitional acts that go into getting pregnant. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2009] Reference
Justice is an essential attribute of His life; mercy is volitional. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
The Germans are intensely volitional, but also intensely intellectual. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Reinach distinguishes between intellectual and volitional deliberation. From Wordnik.com. [Adolf Reinach] Reference
Of the two, volitional deliberation is psychologically the more complex. From Wordnik.com. [Adolf Reinach] Reference
I considered the possibility that I had stunned her back into volitional silence. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
There is no normal human being who does not exhibit such limited volitional units. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Such volitional units do not, however, go far toward unifying the efforts of a life. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The volitional pattern is of a given kind, and the colors which enter into it are selected. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Or it may be sudden and catastrophic, a violent change of emotional and volitional activity. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Mnemonic correlations weren't a matter of the conscious intelligence; they weren't volitional. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian Way]
= Our feelings and emotions are the fountains from which nearly all our volitional actions flow. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference
They will put us in the volitional attitude, the emotional mood, where the meaning is able to penetrate. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
It will remain beyond volitional control at least until we get some real insight into social physiology. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
Finding no place in the volitional pattern that occupies the mind, they are cast aside and soon forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
I also try to win his confidence by appealing to his own volitional effort to aid me in obtaining the desired clad. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
So-called "willfulness" is a will in which the volitional power has not yet been balanced with this inhibitive power. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
They are judged by their background, by their harmony with the "pattern" which is revealed in the man's volitional life. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
That, through repetition, his actions have become almost automatic does not remove them from the sphere of the volitional. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Their virtues are wholesome, if obvious; they are good mixers, have shrewd judgment, immense physical and volitional energy. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
But that in no way takes away the volitional nature of their decision to get involved in this horrendous sport of dogfighting. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2007] Reference
Nevertheless, even beyond those limits, the attitude of a man's mind toward the actions of his neighbor may be a volitional one. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
If he was volitional and engaged in war crimes, then I think there is a strong case to be made for having the law prosecute him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2001] Reference
Every single conscious action (volitional) that one takes, whether physical or mental, is the result of one having made a choice. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Nevertheless, the permanent volitional attitude may be unmistakably present, and may reveal itself in strivings toward the chosen goal. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
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