Sentence examples for voluntary acts from inspiring English sources

A source close to Young said: "There is great misconception that people are liable for well-intentioned voluntary acts, like clearing snow in front of their drive.

His studies of the numerical constancy of such presumably voluntary acts as crimes stimulated extensive studies in "moral statistics" and wide discussion of free will versus social determinism.

Lord Young, who has been conducting a health and safety review, tomorrow reports to the government that it may need to legislate to prevent people from being liable for the consequences of "well-intentioned voluntary acts".

Critics of the program say the deletions, presented as voluntary acts of corporate civic virtue, are clearly coercive, since no company wants to be singled out as a laggard.

And what is very important you have the fact, which both Philo and Josephus make clear, that the Essenes, though of Jewish birth, have not come together on a basis of race, "for one does not speak of race when it is a question of voluntary acts".

Ever the leader, Mr Winnick urged other telecoms executives to "step right up and write a cheque".Such voluntary acts of generosity may be beyond Andrew Fastow, Enron's ex-chief financial officer, who on October 2nd was charged with money laundering, securities, wire and mail fraud, and conspiring to inflate Enron's profits and enrich himself at the company's expense.

Mr. Nixon's resignation is no voluntary act.

I share its conclusion that: Decommissioning is by definition a voluntary act and cannot be imposed.

And it's not writing a letter which is a completely voluntary act.

The exercise of an option is a voluntary act; but failure is forced upon you by events.

In this situation the detective story imposed itself on me, without any voluntary act on my part".