Later, of my own volition, when I was about 20, I read A Room With a View, and actively began to take against Forster.
Soon there will be no reason for any man to die, for death to be anything but a matter of volition, when the unreplaceable ego is just too tired to go on.
Yet unless their productions pick up consistent nominations on the pre-Oscars awards circuit, smaller studios won't gamble on expensive marketing, instead hoping that enough academy members watch their film of their own volition when they receive it in the post – something that doesn't happen as much as it should.
Moreover, passions proper need not arise only by way of completely external causes; they can arise through volitions, when the volition produces a bodily effect, as when the intellect's raising something for consideration under a universal prompts a particular appearance in the imagination (see de Veritate q.26).
Reasoning by analogy with humans lesioned by disease or battle, Huxley finds it plausible that the frogs are not conscious, or not exercising volition; yet when thrown into water, for example, they swim just as well as undamaged frogs.
Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer game developed by Volition, Inc. when it was split off from Parallax Software.
Nor could all of those maxims be demonstrated, in Malebranche's sense of the term, for Malebranche says that only necessary truths can be demonstrated, and yet he admits that God does sometimes act by particular volitions, namely, when He performs miracles.
On this approach, forgiveness involves volitions or efforts of will, as when a victim of wrong tries to overcome angry emotions caused by having been wronged, or refrains from chastising or punishing a wrongdoer, in so doing demonstrating a willingness to let bygones be bygones.
This study adopted a self-determination theory approach to explore the correlates of a measure of spontaneous implementation intentions; designed to allow for volition in planning when, where, and how to exercise.
Ms. Wadham constructs a complicated intrigue after the kidnapping of Sam, one with lots of the unpredictable motion that occurs when human volition comes into play.
"On the other hand, it's a shame it wasn't of their own volition" two weeks earlier, when they might have avoided an ugly situation.
