Sentence examples for the volition from inspiring English sources

What is open to question is how radical that switch will have to be and at the volition of whom.

But he either lacked the volition or the inspiration, and so another practical statement of his went down to jeering, with the candidate himself seeming to concede the point with his silence.

"There was a kind of ethos that spun you along for a while," he says, "but the volition to write was much more personal than anything that came from being in a movement".

I saw now that he was bigger than I was, probably stronger, too, but the drugs had taken the volition out of him, and in the next moment he was outside the door and the three bolts were hammered home.

That the second version was similar in detail and duration to Ms. La Barbara's earlier solo account, despite the volition of eight additional performers, neatly illustrated Mr. Brown's uncanny knack for focusing the energies of freewheeling performers.

As always, it's easy to be dazzled by Mr. Assayas's camerawork — the way he catches a person's movement as well as the volition behind that movement — but watching "Boarding Gate" I was again struck by how he uses music to amplify reality, almost as if he were inviting you to listen to the songs playing in other people's heads.

Generally, animistic explanations made in terms of the volitions of soul-like beings operating behind the appearances are rejected as primitive projections of unverifiable entities.

More parsimonious, albeit more radical, explication may be posed via a holistic information-theoretic approach, wherein the consciousness adds some increment of information, in the technical sense, into the particular experimental system, which then deploys it in the most efficient fashion to achieve the experimental goal, i.e., the volition-correlated mean shift.

To this Arnauld objects that the volitions by which God creates are particular.

This structure, however, is independent of and prior to the volitions of assent or denial that generate real judgment.

There can be a necessary causal connection in only one case, namely, the connection between the volitions of an omnipotent agent and its upshots.