Sentence examples for voluntary form from inspiring English sources
A "donation," or gift, is another voluntary form.
Eben Moglen, a professor of law at Columbia University and the general counsel of the Free Software Foundation, supported a similar accounting mechanism but in voluntary form.
This is not a modern form of indentured servitude, but a voluntary form of taxation, one that would make only the beneficiaries of a college education — not all taxpayers — pay for the costs of it.
What is more, the poor spend a greater proportion of their income on lottery tickets than the rich do which makes the lottery a regressive (though voluntary) form of taxation.
Many churches came to embrace a more malleable doctrine, known as separationism, which cast Hell not as a punishment but as a voluntary form of loneliness — in the words of John Paul II, "the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy".
In particular, this century saw the transition of confinement in a monastery from a voluntary form of penance to a legal penalty.
After land reform had been carried out, mutual aid teams allowed the communists to experiment with voluntary forms of agricultural collectivization.
The current crisis in the Mediterranean, by contrast, is driven by irregular "mixed migration" flows where incidents of forced displacement from violence are intertwined with voluntary forms of economic migration.
If families do not guarantee happiness, the relationships they create and cultivate nonetheless tend to be richer, more primal, and more permanent than purely voluntary forms of human community.
My main criticism of his thesis (also perhaps predictably) was to question Dionne's tendency to equate "community" with "government," given the way expansions of state power tend to crowd out more personal and/or voluntary forms of common life (civic, religious, familial), replacing human-scale interactions with bureaucratic process and leaving society more atomized than before.
His research in child development examines the effects of environment, and particularly poverty and parenting, on voluntary forms of self-regulation (e.g., executive functions) and the involuntary activity of neurophysiological systems that support self-regulatory abilities.
