(n.) The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(3) Clinical features in 173 white expatriates returning to Britain with the sole diagnosis of schistosomiasis were compared with those in non-infected control subjects, matched for age and sex, returning from similar endemic areas.
(4) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
(5) These findings support the hypothesis that differences in the modulation of the immune response to parasite antigen are responsible for the observed differences in clinical presentation between expatriate and endemic populations with loiasis.
(6) I’ll talk in English,” he said, speaking to Filipino expatriates on a two-day state visit to Myanmar.
(7) Tiny Qatar, the richest of them all, leads the region in using wealth to provide subsidised education and food to buy the acquiescence if not the loyalty of their people – who in several countries are outnumbered by expatriate foreigners.
(8) Some members of the expatriate community living in Russia have become Russian citizens for marriage or business reasons, but it is a very rare occurrence, said Tatyana Bondrayevna, director of the Visa Delight migration agency.
(9) Monitoring the incidence of malaria in highly exposed expatriates provides early warning of the emergence of drug-resistant P falciparum malaria and can provide data to guide recommendations for travelers.
(10) Specialized HIV clinics have also been set up, with both Qatari and expatriate patients being enrolled in treatment programmes.
(11) Four of these were expatriate doctors who had worked in Africa.
(12) The reason had nothing to do with my success, it was because the allowances for expatriate people, of which I was one, were raised across the board.
(13) Her previous studies suggest the higher rates of depression among Haitian expatriates were linked to the drop in family contact the immigrants experienced.
(14) While there have been no reports of violence against Japanese citizens, some expatriates voiced concern about their safety.
(15) The expatriate advisor or 'expert' working in Indonesian medical education will require a complex range of personal and professional qualities if he or she is to be effective.
(16) The documentary moves beyond the charity's work to show British expatriates in Kenya; one stompingly posh woman remarks they have "a wildly gay time" there, and she feels that "even in their poverty, [the Kenyan people] are basically happy".
(17) Cannot she see that the best way to safeguard the rights of the 1.2 million UK citizens resident in the EU is to cement the goodwill of European governments by offering full and immediate assurances to their expatriates?
(18) Third of Saudi air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, data shows Read more The unease manifested itself early on in the campaign when calls were put into media organisations by British expatriates based in Saudi Arabia and members of the public in the UK who had picked up snippets from British service personnel in pubs, clubs or school playgrounds about the UK military working alongside the Saudi air force.
(19) Meanwhile in France, the former ruler of the North African country, expatriates celebrated.
(20) The development of concepts concerning the epidemiology of human malaria and the use of antimalarial drugs, either as protective or curative, lead more and more to the necessity for any traveller or expatriate to take medical advice from a specialized physician.
Voluntary
Definition:
(v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
(v. t.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
(v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
(v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
(v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
(n.) One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.
(n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.
(n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(2) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(3) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(4) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(5) He got away with a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and served five years.
(6) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(7) Surface EMGs at rest and at voluntary eyelid opening after eyelid closing were investigated.
(8) Voluntary entropion, which has been reported only once before, was photographically documented in a 12-year-old girl.
(9) Criteria for evaluating the data were scanning pattern (voluntary preferred reading direction) and reading performance.
(10) The atrophies of motor cortex seemed to be responsible for the disorder of voluntary movement.
(11) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
(12) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
(13) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(14) The "size principle" is known to dictate the sequence of recruitment of motor neurons during voluntary or reflex activation of muscles.
(15) It is suggested that contracting extrafusal muscle fibres can modulate the discharge pattern of spindle endings and contribute to the variability of discharge during a voluntary contraction.
(16) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
(17) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
(18) Both the extensor indicis and the abductor pollicis longus are functional synergists and are under voluntary control of the brain.
(19) So far there have been 50 voluntary redundancies from editorial and a further 82 commercial jobs have been cut.
(20) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.