(adv.) In an involuntary manner; not voluntarily; not intentionally or willingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case records of all patients admitted involuntarily to the psychiatric unit of a teaching general hospital between May 1, 1985, and Apr.
(2) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(3) All of this is of particular relevance today in light of the supreme Court's Donaldson decision, that mentally ill persons cannot be confined involuntarily if they are not dangerous and can live safely in the outside world.
(4) Jarvis's condition means that he occasionally ejaculates involuntarily.
(5) Refused asylum seekers can have their personal information disclosed to foreign governments in order to obtain travel documents if they are involuntarily deported, according to an immigration department manual.
(6) They did this voluntarily under instruction, and involuntarily by means of base-down or base-up wedge prisms.
(7) This Article discusses the rights of prisoners, pretrial detainees, and the involuntarily committed to receive high-cost medical treatments.
(8) When Jastrow asked volunteers to imagine looking at an object in the room the automatograph revealed that their hands involuntarily moved in that direction.
(9) ‘Washington is offering no choice besides disaster’ Geno, 37, Pennsylvania, voting for Jill Stein I’m in that middle class suffering from decades of neoliberalism – involuntarily in debt, in a dead-end job because of health coverage and few options.
(10) It is shown that the recruitment order of units in a series of reflexes (1) is unstable if the subject does not expect the stimulus; (2) is stable and identical with that in tonic activity if the subject subliminally facilitates the motoneurone pool before the reflex activation; (3) is stable and almost identical with that in tonic activity if the subject expects the stimulus and therefore involuntarily influences the motoneurone pool; (4) is stable and similar to that in phasic voluntary activity if the subject inhibits the motoneurone pool before the activation and the stimulus strength thus consequentially is increased; and (5) is influenced by blockade of the proprioceptive afferent impulses from the muscle.
(11) Involuntarily hospitalized patients oftentimes request judicial review of their commitments.
(12) Long-acting intramuscular antipsychotics were prescribed more frequently for involuntarily medicated patients.
(13) Both hypnotic and nonhypnotic subjects given passive instructions rated their pain reduction as occurring involuntarily, whereas those given active instructions reported that their pain was reduced through their active use of coping strategies.
(14) The issue of whether electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) causes brain damage was examined by the Supreme Court of Ontario when an involuntarily hospitalized patient attempted to overturn a treatment order for ECT made by a review board.
(15) Rudy's power is the ability to split into two, creating a sort of twin; this happens to him involuntarily, at moments when his emotions are heightened.
(16) As other compensatory phenomena in the motor system, RPN has features of instrumental (it improves the organisms control of environment) and classical (it is automatically established and involuntarily emitted) conditioning.
(17) A limited number of women are permanently infertile, but the percentage of those who at some point in their lives are involuntarily childless is higher.
(18) Although the United States Supreme Court has not offered a definite opinion, some states have established the qualified right of involuntarily committed patients to refuse treatment.
(19) The importance of psychological counselling for involuntarily childless couples has also been noted.
(20) A larger proportion of Maori are admitted involuntarily, especially under the Criminal Justice Act.
Voluntarily
Definition:
(adv.) In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(2) An additional 17 patients considered highly in need of treatment met criteria for commitment based on inability to care for self, but most were hospitalized voluntarily.
(3) To investigate this issue, data from two previous papers were reanalysed to investigate the complete time course of precuing target location with either: (1) a peripheral cue that may draw attention reflexively, or (2) a central, symbolic cue that may require attention to be directed voluntarily.
(4) Starbucks subsequently agreed to voluntarily pay £20m in taxes .
(5) More than 36,000 city voters had to sign within a 12-month period to automatically trigger a binding referendum after Birmingham city council had refused to voluntarily hold one.
(6) Both patients continue to use the device voluntarily; a smaller unit, however, that doesn't have the conspicuous external controls, would likely be readily acceptable to most young patients.
(7) As a way of learning about the motor control of chewing, we studied how well a subject could voluntarily chew in time with a metronome and defined the changes in the spatial and temporal aspects of the chewing pattern with changes in chewing rate.
(8) The sinus arrhythmia of the human heart was investigated in its relation to the tidal volume under resting conditions in the course of the day, in voluntarily changed tidal volume, under atropine medication and during physical work.
(9) Coulson, who is now David Cameron's communications director, voluntarily attended a meeting with the Metropolitan police at a solicitor's office last Thursday, 4 November.
(10) Of the 62 patients implanted, 52 (84%) continue to be treated adequately for spasticity; there are three poor long-term responders, four deaths due to underlying disease, and three whose participation has been voluntarily withdrawn.
(11) Diamond stressed that Barclays had "voluntarily and proactively disclosed to HRMC" the scheme it had used when buying back its debt in "a tax efficient matter".
(12) In this study, 510 people of six villages, representing ages between 1 month to 84 years cooperated voluntarily.
(13) About 300 were moved “voluntarily” from the camp last Tuesday to shelters elsewhere in France .
(14) We also propose a possible new approach in which people from the age of 18 years would voluntarily enrol in an organ donation program, agreeing to permit all usable organs to be taken for transplantation at the time of death.
(15) The authors report on an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (HCV Ab) prevalence (6.9%) in 622 homo-bisexual males from Northern Italy, voluntarily attending an HIV and STDs screening program in the period 1984-89.
(16) These results would seem to indicate a possible functional relationship between rate of norepinephrine turnover and amounts of ethanol voluntarily consumed by the laboratory rat.
(17) It's a matter of legal obligation, imposed by the convention itself to which the UK voluntarily signed up.
(18) The law itself had the effect of increasing commitments throughout the state, reducing the levels of voluntary admissions, and increasing the likelihood of involuntary admission for individuals previously admitted voluntarily, thus transforming a principally voluntary system into one which was primarily involuntary.
(19) The inability to close the eyelids voluntarily is, with these types of lesion, a transient sign which is rapidly replaced by difficulty in maintaining the consign.
(20) Bright, bold and brilliantly ridiculous, Artpop looks like the sort of image that will jump out at you rather than make you want to blind yourself voluntarily.