Voluntarily

By this criterion we distinguish our waking from our sleeping hours, we can voluntarily recollect our sleeping ideas, when we are awake, and compare them with our waking ones; but we cannot in our sleep _voluntarily_ recollect our waking ideas at all. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Also note that, even if the insurance companies decided to ** voluntarily lower their premiums** in response to 'tort reform', the medical practitioners, hospitals, etc. would ALSO have to ** voluntarily** do the same thing (pass the savings on, rather than simply make a tad more profit) before you or I would every see lower health care costs ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

If he does not surrender the title voluntarily, sooner or later they will take it by force, and that part of the empire along with it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Then one of the five came in voluntarily and gave himself up, and Sheldon learned that Gogoomy and two others were all that were at large. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The idea of going back voluntarily is almost impossible to imagine. ❋ Mark Olmsted (2010)

Going green may get slightly easier next year, however, when members of the Soap and Detergent Association and others will begin voluntarily disclosing their ingredients, Sansoni says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

"If the USDA did officially declare the six other E. coli strains as adulterants, we hope it would spur most major beef packers to begin voluntarily testing for them," said Nancy Donley, president of nonprofit Safe Tables Our Priority. ❋ Bill Tomson (2010)

Does anyone believe that a person is entitled "voluntarily" to continue his journey so long as he pays for all poor people who use the roads? ❋ Richard A. Epstein (2011)

Robin voluntarily under went a memory wipe to try and reprogram himself into something different. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Sierra Pacific has joined with other private landowners across North America in voluntarily adopting the standards set by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program We have developed a one hundred year plan for managing our forests to provide the wood products consumers rely on while maintaining fish and wildlife habitat, soil stability and water quality.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

For it may well be that he has entertained the remote possibility of a diplomatic solution under which Iran would follow the example of Libya in voluntarily giving up its nuclear program. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One change I've made voluntarily is that I no longer get chocolate milk with my fish. ❋ Homesick Texan (2007)

The Random House College Dictionary proffers: ab-stain, n, "to refrain voluntarily from something regarded as improper or unhealthy" ❋ Unknown (2006)