What is "voluntarily"

Usage examples of "voluntarily".

This is very aptly shown by the fact that under feudalism allodial titles were voluntarily surrendered for feudal ones.

By an act passed in 1865 Congress had prescribed that before any person should be permitted to practice in a federal court he must take oath asserting that he had never voluntarily borne arms against the United States, had never given aid or comfort to enemies of the United States, and so on.

While the secrecy afforded our valued clients remains paramount to the Swiss philosophy of banking, a decision has been made to voluntarily comply with the demands of our federal government, the wishes of our citizens, and the requests of the international authorities.

For an instant his eyes closed, not with pain or sleep but voluntarily, as though he were bringing all his faculties to bear.

Until the fourth day of July in the year 1870, all persons who voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, shall be excluded from the right to vote for representatives in Congress and for electors for President and Vice-President of the United States.

Indeed, when serious doubts were raised about the drug, my company went beyond requirements of the law, and withdrew Montayne voluntarily, without waiting for a decision by the FDA.

Bloom risen, going, gathering multicoloured multiform multitudinous garments, voluntarily apprehending, not comprehend?

It was, Prew often thought, as if The Warden had applied to his whole life the principle which applied to all other games of sport - that laying down of certain arbitrary rules to make success that much harder for the player to attain, like clipping in football or travelling in basketball, or in the same way, he had read someplace, that sporting fishermen would use the light six-nine tackle in fishing for sailfish instead of the heavy tackle that makes it easy for the novice, thereby imposing upon themselves voluntarily the harder conditions that made the reward 3J4 worth more to them.

Thus, where the applicable rule so required at the time of the granting of its charter, a water company may be compelled to furnish connections at its own expense to one residing on an ungraded street in which it voluntarily laid its lines.

Prompted in this way by the sensations from the skin, one voluntarily supplies the external conditions, such as clothing and heat, that affect the body temperature.

The consulars also and senior members, from the hatred of tribunitian power still rankling in their bosoms, the desire of which they considered was much more keenly felt by the commons than that of the consular power, almost had rather that the decemvirs themselves should voluntarily resign their office at some future period, than that the people should rise once more into consequence through their unpopularity.

He was rewarded by a choking sound from the other end of her, where Tsigvit had regained possession, followed by a loud grunt of pain from Tsigvit, who voluntarily withdrew from her, eyes wide in surprise, red blood welling from the root of his wagon spoke.

I never thought I would voluntarily enter the perimeter of the blowdown again.

When a party voluntarily appears in a cause and actively conducts his defense, he cannot thereafter claim that he was denied due process merely because he was not served with process when the original action was commenced.

Kennedy embarked on a strategy of quiet, behind-the-scenes persuasion to try to get Southern officials to voluntarily comply with judicial desegregation, backed by the threat of legal action.