Sentence examples for volition to set from inspiring English sources

"Afghanistan has chosen of its own volition to set the limit at 22 years of age for recruitment into the Afghan National Army," said Bellamy.

Locke assumes (reasonably) that in order for an action A to be voluntary, it must be caused (in the right way) by a volition that A occur (or, as Locke sometimes puts it, by a volition to do A).

"I would like them to put something aside of their own volition to address problem gambling".

"Pat has to show volition to change the UCI.

From there, MTV chose to, on their own volition, to remove the piece.

Mr. Gore managed to mention that all four of his children had come, of their own volition, to the debate tonight.

Doing so entails looking both at the ongoing influence of the external structure of opportunities, and at their changing potential and volition to achieve their aspirations.

Consumers would buy "smart grid" technologies of their own volition, to save money on their utility bills.

Later on, Arnauld says that, on Malebranche's view, it is really only the free volitions of creatures that can be said to determine God, in view of His general volitions, to produce a particular effect.

Meanwhile, of its own volition, Israel has illegally set up over 460,000 settlers on Palestinian land.Christopher LeadbeaterAshford, KentSurgingSIR – You ought to point out that the American Enterprise Institute is a neo-conservative, rather than a conservative, think-tank, and is intimately associated with the Israel lobby ("Less a surge than a squirt", January 9th, Economist.com).

In explaining the relationship between volition and action, Vasubandhu points to traces left by past volitions to demonstrate that intentional acts are not entirely determined by the present volition.