The term may refer to the involuntary dropping of the chin into a literal nod, but it carries, too, associations with the Biblical land of Nod and all manner of remixed cultural notions: wandering, desires, creativity, sleep, dreams.
In a series of inquests known as Article 32 hearings, the military investigator recommended that the most serious charge against the soldiers, involuntary manslaughter, be dropped but that most of the other charges be forwarded to a court-martial.
But the investigator concluded that the most serious charge against the soldiers, involuntary manslaughter, should be dropped, the statement said.
Prosecutors dropped an involuntary manslaughter charge against a police officer acquitted last week of assaulting a black man who died in police custody.
difficulties in engaging in treatment (for example patients who were unwilling to use mental health services, or those who had a history of involuntary admissions or of drop-out from mental healthcare).
After a pretrial investigative hearing, the military investigator concluded that the involuntary manslaughter charge should be dropped, officials said in a statement.
As a longtime adherent of the hard-sear gospel, I kept thinking that I had forgotten something; every time I caught sight of the lamb on the counter, I would give an involuntary start and reach out to drop it into the pan.
The number of these so-called "involuntary part-time" workers has gradually dropped as the economy has rebounded, but it's still far from from its pre-recession levels.
Involuntary recumbency occurred when ionised calcium dropped to 0.39 – 0.52 mmol/l due to chelation.
