This handsome edifice was paid for before it was begun, by the voluntary contributions of Christian Scientists all over the country, and a tablet imbedded in its wall declares that it was built as "a testimonial to our beloved teacher, Rev.
The idea that Christian Science has declined in popularity is not borne out by the voluntary contribution of a quarter of a million dollars for a memorial church for Mrs. Eddy, the inventor of this cure.
To provide the labor power, workmen were recruited by voluntary methods.
Voluntary agreements on the part of producers and dealers to limit prices and profits have failed without exception.
To do this there was needed some form of governmental food control and a nation-wide voluntary effort of the people.
In England and France sugar was strictly rationed; and in America the people were called on to limit their use of sugar by voluntary agreement.
They were moved and stimulated by the philosophy ofvoluntary cooperation, which was first and in a very daring way thrust into the consciousness of the nation by the Council of National Defense.
By design is meant the intelligent and voluntary selection of an end, and the intelligent and voluntary choice, application, and control of means appropriate to the accomplishment of that end.
Voluntary associations were embodied, and every measure of prudent precaution was promptly adopted, to prevent the expansion of principles which are totally subversive of all order, and of the best interests of civilized society.
If the more perfect command of our voluntary movements implied in every art be an acquisition, so is the less perfect command of these movements that grows upon a child during the first year of life.
In 1707, the inhabitants of Greenock, without the interference of government, imposed on themselves a voluntary assessment, with the object of constructing a harbour.
Reid has no hesitation in classing the voluntary command of our organs, that is, the sequence of feeling and action implied in all acts of will, among instincts.
It is not true that human beings possess, at birth, any voluntary command of their limbs whatsoever.
Laura never liked the negress, but well aware of the difficulty she might have in finding a servant, she accepted her voluntaryoffer to follow when she went with Brockton.
I just called you to witness that the act is entirely voluntary on her part.
Or they might practically repeal the plural voting law, split up the constituency by a voluntary arrangement into single member sections, and spend the weeks of the election in making one candidate for each party known in each section.
It is primarily a name, which, like other names, calls up when it is heard or seen an 'image' that shades imperceptibly into the voluntary realisation of its meaning.
He describes a Utopia which is the result of the forcible overthrow of representative government by a voluntary aristocracy of trained men of science.
The expense Of the building was defrayed by voluntary subscription, and its erection occupied twenty years.
His decayed habiliment indicated, from its formation and texture, that he had seen better days, and his voluntary seclusion confirmed the idea that he had not been accustomed to his present humiliating intercourse.
Contentment under wrong is a crime, voluntary submission under oppression is not the virtue some would have it to be.
We prefer that the breaking up shall be voluntary and gradual, but it must begin at once, for hungry bellies are multiplying daily.
My pamphlet on the Irish Question, published in 1866, won a voluntary letter of warm approval from Mr. Gladstone, the only friendly writing I ever received from him in my life.
Spencer's view of the genesis of feeling and voluntary action, Principles of Psychology, 2d ed.
He is indeed only kept from a complete break with it by the position he ascribes to sympathy as outside of the ordinary sphere of voluntary action.
But sympathy obviously "clashes with the regular outgoings of the will in favour of our pleasures;" so that it ought to be placed outside voluntary action, and regarded simply as "a remarkable and crowning instance of the Fixed Idea.
The purpose, which is conceived as blind or unconscious in nature, becomes conscious and voluntary in man.
Sidenote: the latter of which] [Sidenote: is inconsistent with the nature of voluntary action.
Don't be afraid, said he, 'twas a voluntary Fall, I am going to examine the Depth and Breadth of this Pass.
A person who lives in a near and voluntary occasion of sin need not expect forgiveness while he continues in that state.
To all this Clennam merely replied that, granting the whole protest, nothing in it lessened the force, or could lessen the force, of the voluntary and public exoneration of his partner.
And, he said, Heaven forbid that Frederick should be there in any other character than in his present voluntary character!
It is true that Aristotle at the outset implies that slavery is as old as the family, but he still speaks of States as voluntary combinations for a good end.
These taxes in turn were probably suggested by the practice of ancient Athens, where extraordinary revenue for war purposes was obtained "partly from voluntary contributions, partly from a graduated income or property tax.
They did not prevent the Jews from collecting the temple-tribute in the form of voluntarycontributions and sending it to Jerusalem.
These drivers were all voluntary workers, and were Yale and Harvard men who had come over to see what the "show" was really like.
In a former speech to the parliament, he told them that he had expended five hundred thousand pounds in the cause of the palatine, besides the voluntary contributions given him by the people.
Their conferring an unlimited supremacy on the queen, or, what is worse, acknowledging her inherent right to it, was another proof of their voluntary servitude.
Before the reign of Elizabeth, the English princes had usually recourse to the city of Antwerp for voluntary loans; and their credit was so low, that, besides paying the high interest of ten or twelve per cent.
He was thrown into the Tower; and being conscious that his guilt could be proved upon him, at least that sentence would infallibly be pronounced against him, he freed himself from further prosecution by a voluntary death.
The new teachers had hitherto subsisted chiefly by the voluntary oblations of the faithful; and in a poor country, divided in religious sentiments, this establishment was regarded as very scanty and very precarious.
After such reflections one is inclined to pity rather than condemn the weakness to which Guy Elersley resigned himself such a voluntary victim.
She would live for the man she loathed, a life of voluntary martyrdom.
Oh, the despicable degradation of a race conceived in an Eternal Mind, created by an Infinite Hand, redeemed by the voluntary sacrifice of a God, and sanctified by the Spirit that pervades the universe!
But believe me, child these feeble, wrinkled hands would burn heroically over the slowest fire before they could be raised in voluntary tyranny over you.
Whose memory did he, by his own voluntary action, awake within her by bringing her to this spot?
The so-called "Aztec ruin", which is situated on the banks of the Animas River in northwestern New Mexico, substantiates this hypothesis of the voluntary desertion of the cliff dwellings.
After the talks six of the best singers and dancers among the Navajo Indians employed in the park can usually be persuaded, by modest voluntary contributions on the part of the visitors, to give some of their songs and dances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voluntary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
