(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poor long-term responders, four deaths due to underlying disease, and three whose participation has been voluntarily withdrawn.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.
Willfully
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(3) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(4) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(5) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
(7) He also said that at least under the Labour government Gordon Brown had been willing to meet the Argentinians.
(8) Only 4% are willing to face the other option – paying for content with no ads.
(9) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
(10) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
(11) The bill hands £80bn to new GP commissioning boards and will allow any willing provider to compete to provide services.
(12) One of the reasons consumers are willing to take these cases on through the small claims process is because they are not exposed to the other side's costs."
(13) The Fe-protein and the MoFe-protein of the Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase complex can be chemically cross-linked by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (Willing, A., Georgiadis, M.M., Rees, D. C., and Howard, J.
(14) During his visit to Europe he did not speak at length on the subject of the shooting, but seemed more willing than Giuliani to distance the Dallas tragedy from the Black Lives Matter movement.
(15) "Only a minority of doctors would be willing to participate in such acts," the authors clear-thinkingly object.
(16) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
(17) Before the vote was announced, Dimon told shareholders the bank was willing to "pay attention to what we've heard."
(18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
(19) That is likely to happen under plans by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , to let "any willing provider" – part of the health service, a private healthcare provider or a charity – be paid out of NHS funds to treat NHS patients.
(20) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.