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Volition in sentence

24 examples of Volition in a sentence

They aren't sociable through their own volition, but because they are being controlled.
In the big data age, the challenge will be safeguarding free will, moral choice, human volition, human agency.
And more importantly, if their childhood has not been lived according to a tyrannical checklist then when they get to college, whichever one it is, well, they'll have gone there on their own volition, fueled by their own desire, capable and ready to thrive there.
Yes, the girl falls, absurd to fall, even the earth with its compulsion to take unto itself all that falls must know that falling is absurd, yet the girl falling isn't myself, or she is myself, but a self I took of my own volition unto myself.
This man is confined to his own volition and he can never escape it.
Is it some kind of miracle, or sinister joke, that people don mental straight jackets of their own volition, twist themselves into contorted shapes, and grin like apes?
i have actually just recently seen an episode of _The Simple Life_, not of my own volition either.
Whatever the fake sister did, she did of her own volition and should have been held accountable for it.
Way too many filmmakers have milked this plot line (Ron Howard, Mel Gibson, Schwartzenggar) to exhaustion, since it's fresh debut in DeathWish (way back in the 1700s) and it's become the action-adventure genre's tiresome, defacto plot line: and judging from the success of these look-alike products, apparently it's the only volition straight audiences can fathom.
But a country does not fail of its own volition, nor is it weakened by unknown causes.
Though it is not often the case that severely repressive regimes go of their own volition or through a negotiated transfer of power, it does happen.
One French woman, who took to the burqa entirely through her own volition, protested: “France is supposed to be a free country.
Today, some philosophers interpret Rousseau and Darwin to mean that human nature itself is nonexistent, and that while biology may constrain the body, it does not restrict our minds or our volition.
Is the OSCE's presence retarding the country's independence and economic vitality by creating an image of a protectorate, a country unable to forge international agreements or join powerful international bodies on its own volition?
For politicians, the important thing is not to avoid taking hard decisions, but to do so of their own volition and at their own pace.
Theresa May’s Other Citizens of NowhereVIENNA– British Prime Minister Theresa May has, of her own volition, stripped her Conservative Party of its governing parliamentary majority by calling an early election.
But it is hard to imagine that the mass media (other than quality newspapers) would, of their own volition, become instruments of an education that enhances citizens’ critical capacities.
But de Gaulle later resigned of his own volition, over an issue of minor importance.
The big contribution of the "Three Represents" is that, for the first time, a ruling communist party gives up - of its own volition - the idea of class warfare.
One, a Swedish citizen, was forced to appear on Chinese television, implausibly claiming to have returned to China from Thailand of his own volition and asking that nobody try to help him.
The EU never would have done so of its own volition.
This he interpreted to be a clear expression of the intention of nature, that every man might regulate, by his own volition, whatever was to be admitted into the sanctuary of his mouth; consequently, if the guest proved unpalatable, he had no one to blame but himself.
He stood up, took off his overcoat, and having given himself a start on the rough ice near the shelter, glided down to the smooth surface of the lake, increasing and diminishing his speed and shaping his course as if by volition only.
This poor creature to whom her mother had never said, "You are my child," except to bid her nourish her old age as she herself had nourished her youth, was called Louise, and, being obedient to her mother, she abandoned herself without volition, without passion, without pleasure, as she would have worked at any other profession that might have been taught her.