Sentence examples for joined voluntarily from inspiring English sources

Skeptical, tenacious mothers demanded that their sons be asked in front of them if they had joined voluntarily, and they protested to international organizations.

Amnesty International, which has been actively monitoring human rights abuses by the government and the rebels in Sri Lanka for many years, said it opposed the use of children under age 18 as soldiers, even if they have joined voluntarily.

The collaboration turned out so congenially, Richard Roth Jr. said, that Yamasaki and the Roths later joined voluntarily to work on a project for the Defense Department in Washington, though it was unbuilt.

Of the 26.8 million men who were eligible for the draft between 1964 and 1973, only 2.2 million were drafted while 8.7 million joined voluntarily, according to "Chance and Circumstance: the Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation," a 1978 book by Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss.

They were joined, voluntarily, by two prominent local priests.

However, in 2000, the court found that "there was no conscription of non-Germans to serve with the German army" and that Oberlander, as a Ukrainian citizen, was likely not pressed into service out of fear of death and may have joined voluntarily.

Children who join "voluntarily" for money or prestige soon learn that the price of desertion may be execution.

"If the 17 decide to improve their economic governance, I think Poland will join voluntarily because Poland wants to join the euro zone," Mr. Nowak said.

Last July, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the plaintiff could move forward with her lawsuit as collective action that others could join voluntarily.

Leveson's proposals would mean that if we didn't join voluntarily his new independent regulator we would be regulated by the state appointed regulator Ofcom.

The draft law would set up a National Payment Card System (NPCS) including its own payment card that banks and payment card companies could join voluntarily.