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The democratically elected Congress is still in place and despite the terrorist attack on the American mission, Libyans have spontaneously united to denounce violence and rebuild their nation.
Urban art forms, for example, are particularly well represented by a generation of young, spontaneously inclined artists whose spray-painted interventions can be found hogging wall space in every corner of the city.
Research published this weekend by Screen Australia, examining the strength of the Australian film industry, said the film was the "most widely (spontaneously ) discussed film of the entire study, with participants of both genders and across all age groups sharing how revelatory, thought-provoking and even transformative they found it".
And not one audience member spontaneously threw up their popcorn in repulsion!
A spokesman for Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the man who orchestrated the recent refinery attack in Algeria, told French media on Monday that France could expect "dozens like... Merah and Khaled Kelkal" who would spontaneously rise up to kill and maim.
Imagine people at opposite sides of the world spontaneously going to their local shops and buying several hundred tampons to drop off at their local homeless shelter.
House added that many of his officers had been touched by the number of people who had spontaneously offered the police sympathy and support.
It's partly the low-tech approach, since inherited by The Woman In Black, whereby a spontaneously opening door or slamming ticket hatch is sufficient to make an audience jump out of its skin.
Third, he suggests a false dichotomy between utopian anarchy and central planning.Libertarian theorists of spontaneous order, such as Hayek, certainly do argue that central planners cannot hope to impose an economic order more attractive and beneficial than the order known to arise spontaneously from a well-functioning market system.
The order that arises spontaneously from markets, whereby prices are allowed to fluctuate freely with supply and demand, is a natural wonder admired by libertarians and non-libertarians alike.
Mr Bhalla is no xenophobe he spontaneously professes a weakness for Marks & Spencer underwear but says the reform is too controversial to be enacted.
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The adverb "spontaneously" primarily functions as a modifier , describing how an action is performed. It indicates that the action arises from a natural inclination or internal impulse, without external prompting or pre-planning. As shown by Ludwig, the term accurately depicts unplanned occurrences.
Expression frequency: Very common
