Sentence examples for immediate volition from inspiring English sources

In the context of a discussion of the doctrine of occasionalism, Hume shows he is aware of this: "Sir Isaac Newton (tho' some of his Followers have taken a different Turn of thinking) plainly rejects it, but substituting the Hypothesis of an Aetheral Fluid, not the immediate Volition of the Deity, as the Cause of Attraction" ("A Letter From a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh").

He isn't a pantheist because the relation between God and the world is construed as a relation between a creative volition and its immediate effects.

It is the "central" and immediate pulse of life, antecedent to the objectifications by cognition and volition (ST, p. 14).

"They did so of their own volition".

"Not of his own volition," he said.

They have their own volition almost".

And he left by his own volition.

Last month, following the deaths of two friends in Afghanistan, Woo wrote in her blog: "All of these people come to Afghanistan of their own volition, they come knowing that they may pay with their lives... no one ever expects it to be them, perhaps not their immediate friends either, it is always some poor unknown person, a local national, a third country national".

"New Mexico acted on New Mexico's volition," Mr. Fleischer said.

"Pat has to show volition to change the UCI.

Show them you've chosen university of your own volition".