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Voluntary in sentence

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It turns out those aren't the things that are distracting, Because those are voluntary distractions.
But most importantly, it's voluntary.
It's voluntary.
How can one distinguish a donation that is voluntary and altruistic from one that is forced or coerced from, for example, a submissive spouse, an in-law, a servant, a slave, an employee?
So they're doing that, and we're going to launch it later this year, and it's all an experiment, and it's all voluntary.
The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.
You might say Obamacare, except for those were not voluntary changes.
When I was at school, the books were transcribed by transcribers, voluntary people who punched one dot at a time so I'd have volumes to read, and that had been going on, mainly by women, since the late 19th century in this country, but it was the only way I could read.
The question is whether we are willing to continue our support of a failed strategy based on our stubborn, blissful, voluntary ignorance at the cost of the deaths of thousands of our young.
And it then became obvious from me that we had to move away from the classical rehabilitation paradigm, stepping on a treadmill, and develop conditions that would encourage the brain to begin voluntary control over the leg.
This is the first recovery ever observed of voluntary leg movement after an experimental lesion of the spinal cord leading to complete and permanent paralysis.
First of all, this is meant to be voluntary and not mandatory, and second of all, I'm American and I'm already here.
In a thankfully voluntary section of OkCupid, you are allowed to rate how attractive you think people are on a scale between one and five.
But this depends on choosing a voluntary simplicity, growing qualitatively, not quantitatively.
Involuntary vocalizations are part of an older system than the more voluntary vocalizations like the speech I'm doing now.
So is this involuntary laughter or more voluntary laughter?
Operant conditioning explains how consequences lead to changes in voluntary behavior.
Well during REM, the function that keeps you from acting out your dreams, REM atonia, also removes voluntary control of your breathing.
Research has implicated three regions of the brain variously involved in social behavior and complex cognitive planning, voluntary movement, and emotional and motivational responses.
The actions of the man who rescued me meet the most stringent definition of altruism, which is a voluntary, costly behavior motivated by the desire to help another individual.
The goal, of course, is to persuade climbers to clean up after themselves, so maybe local not-for-profits will pay climbers who bring down extra waste, or expeditions might organize voluntary cleanup trips.
The simple proposal is that we should have some international standards, which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points that need to be taken in order to harness these resource revenues.
I could also have told you about the initiatives in parks in London and throughout Britain, involving the same company, promoting exercise, or indeed of the British government creating voluntary pledges in partnership with industry instead of regulating industry.
The other is family planning: access to high-quality, voluntary reproductive health care.
International organizations, non-governmental organizations, private voluntary organizations, contractors.
It's based on more voluntary deference and even elements of love, at times.
So, Howard Rheingold has written a lot about this and, I think, is writing about this more, but this notion of voluntary cooperation is an incredibly powerful one, and one worth thinking about.
Instead of reading from the brain directly, we're reading from the voluntary nervous system that you deliberately have to engage to communicate with the device, while still bringing the benefits of a thinking or a thought device.
And get this: that same company has the lowest voluntary turnover rate of any major chain in its sector.
It would be several months before this infant could do something as simple as reach out and grasp under voluntary control an object and retrieve it, usually to the mouth.
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