Sentence examples for volition if from inspiring English sources

Doesn't taking responsibility have to involve volition if it's to be meaningful?

But he might just go of his own volition, if he feels he has lost the confidence of his party.

He would have gone, quite possibly of his own volition if the series had been lost 3-0.

Cage is remembered most widely for some of his dogma-flouting notions about what constitutes music, how it should be produced and whose volition — if anyone's — should take precedence in the contract among a composer, a performer and a listener.

It implies purpose and volition, as if the Association's trustees, given a choice, had voted that their outfit push on into another year, majestically, like a glacier.

"The Radmacher ruling effectively said that individuals should be held to a properly drafted prenup, as long as it met their needs and they had signed of their own volition, even if the division of assets seemed unfair.

We're going into these situations of our own volition, so if we get hurt it's our fault.

In a paper entitled "Matter, Mind, and Models," Minsky comments on free will: If one thoroughly understands a machine or a program, he finds no urge to attribute "volition" to it.

*Torre's lame-duck status, even if by his own volition, will have an impact if the Yankees start slowly.

It is good to see support for the humanities at universities expressed in your leader but it does not follow as you suggest that by maintaining the current fee regime, with all that is wrong with it, universities will of their own volition protect these areas if demand slackens.

Rowe also notes that Collins and Clarke share the assumption that if a volition is causally determined then the person doing the act does not have free will (ibid., p. 53).