Sentence examples for rather than voluntarily from inspiring English sources

At other times an individual's attention is "captured" by an unexpected event rather than voluntarily directed toward it.

But this was one of the few times when restitution of a valuable art work was worked out through the courts, rather than voluntarily by individual collectors or museums.

Beyond that he says investment banks are coming together to help halt illegal deforestation and that they are starting to think about their business models, although he recognises they are doing this under pressure from critics rather than voluntarily.

Since drivers in this study were self-regulating as a direct result of their visual impairment, rather than voluntarily, "perceived control" may help to explain the findings.

Landlords and tenants find themselves in poisonous relationships, since they are linked by law rather than by voluntarily renewable contracts.

"Without explicit testimony or e-mails, plaintiffs have to prove it was the underwriters' forcing the buyer to do that, rather than them voluntarily doing it".

Obsessions are recurring or persistent thoughts, images, or impulses that, rather than being voluntarily produced, seem to invade a person's consciousness despite his attempts to ignore, suppress, or control them.

Trying to cover something up, rather than exposing it voluntarily, could well destroy your institution from within.

A reporter from The New York Times, an American of Norwegian rather than Afghan extraction, voluntarily submitted to a test screening with the B.A.T. system.

Scobey's candid view, in a cable dated May 2009, is that Mubarak, 82, who heads the Arab world's most populous and influential nation, is most likely to die in office rather than step down voluntarily or be replaced in a plausible democratic vote.

One of the rationales for going full replacement is that if employers don't do that, workers who are older or who have chronic conditions requiring expensive care will stay in their low-deductible managed care plans rather than to switch voluntarily to a high-deductible plan -- at least as long as they have that choice.