Voluntarily Sentence Examples

You're willing to voluntarily speak to us?

In 737 he voluntarily retired to a monastery and left the kingdom to his cousin Eadberht.

But if you and Rhyn voluntarily break it, you.re free.

Voluntarily going to my death?

A man on joining the order died to the world, and so voluntarily resigned his property to his heirs.

The citizens chose him, and voluntarily submitted to his rule.

As far as he knew, no Immortal voluntarily came to Death's underworld.

Immediately after his coronation, he hastened to his newly won territories, accompanied by the principal civil and ecclesiastical dignitaries of Denmark, and was solemnly acknowledged lord of Northalbingia (the district lying between the Eider and the Elbe) at Lubeck, Otto IV., then in difficulties, voluntarily relinquishing all German territory north of the Elbe to Valdemar, who in return recognized Otto as German emperor.

At the festival Chthonia, a cow (representing, according to Mannhardt, the spirit of vegetation), which voluntarily presented itself, was sacrificed by three old women.

In these circumstances Origen thought it best voluntarily to retire from Alexandria (231-232).

By a law of Anastasius, at the end of the 5th century, a colonus who had voluntarily come into an estate was by a tenure of thirty years for ever attached to it.

An heir who has voluntarily caused the death of the person from whom he should inherit loses all rights of succession.

Tilden denied emphatically all knowledge of such despatches, and appeared voluntarily before a Congressional sub-committee in New York City to clear himself of the charge.

Before his death he voluntarily resigned his position to his pupils, Euander and Telecles.

Visitors will be asked to voluntarily surrender any drugs detected by the dogs.

Action Holland and Barrett have been contacted about these surveillance results and have voluntarily withdrawn the affected batch of peanut butter from sale.

It should state that the participant is aware that the activity could be hazardous and that he/she is voluntarily assuming all risks of injury.

Voluntarily or accidentally, he came across Paul, who won him over to the Christian faith.

In 2004, ProHeart was voluntarily recalled due to concerns surrounding serious side effects.

After a tedious and captious examination, he was in March brought before convocation, and, on refusing to subscribe certain articles, was excommunicated and imprisoned; but through the interference of the king he was finally released after he had voluntarily signified his acceptance of all the articles except two, and confessed that he had erred not only " in discretion but in doctrine."

Ever anxious to extend the league, in which after 245 he was general almost every second year, Aratus took Corinth by surprise (243), and with mingled threats and persuasion won over other cities, notably Megalopolis (233) and Argos (229), whose tyrants abdicated voluntarily.

It is true that the squire was a combatant while the page was not, and that many squires voluntarily served as squires all their lives owing to the insufficiency of their fortunes to support the costs and charges of knighthood.

He inured himself to the vicissitudes of heat and cold, and voluntarily suffered the pains or inconveniences of hunger and thirst, fatigue and sleeplessness.

The army in the colonies numbers in all about 26,000, all permanent troops and for the most part voluntarily enlisted European regulars.

France voluntarily declared that she sought in Mexico only to satisfy injuries done her and not to overthrow or establish local government or to appropriate territory.

It may be added that employees in mercantile and trading houses, who have not exceeded the age of 40 years and whose income is below 1/215o, are allowed voluntarily to share in the benefits of this insurance.

Number of young men attaining service age (including those who had voluntarily enlisted before their time).

Voluntarily enlisted in the army and navy, on or before attailling service age..

Prussia, which, following the example of Austria, had recalled her representatives from Frankfort, sent her troops to put down these risings, and on the 21st of May 1849 the larger number of the deputies to the parliament voluntarily resigned their seats.

Bavaria has even voluntarily adopted many imperial laws from which it was legally exempted; for instance, the laws of settlement.

As a clause in the constitution determined that they should remain outside the Customs Union until they voluntarily offered to enter it, there was some difficulty in overcoming their opposition.

In 1364 Carniola was made into an hereditary duchy; in 1374 part of Istria came under the rule of the Habsburgs; in 1382 Trieste submitted voluntarily to Austria, and at various times during the century, other smaller districts were added to the lands of the Habsburgs.

In 1745 Trenton received a royal charter incorporating it as a borough, but in 1750 the inhabitants voluntarily surrendered this privilege, deeming it "very prejudicial to the interest and trade" of the community.

Guns, small arms and ammunition, with large stores of grain and dates, were captured, many prisoners taken, while hundreds surrendered voluntarily, among them a brother of the amir Wad en Nejumi.

Nor did Valdemar hesitate to meet his people in public and periodically render an account of his stewardship. He voluntarily resorted to the old practice of summoning national assemblies, the so-called Danehof.

His job was to censor matter voluntarily submitted by the Press.

In the 11th century the indulgence consisted in a remission of part of the penance imposed in the confessional, in return for the discharge of some obligation voluntarily assumed by the penitent.

The town came voluntarily under Roman sovereignty in 318 B.C., afforded a refuge to the Roman fugitives after Cannae, and remained faithful for the rest of the war.

On the 29th of March Gustavus, in order to save the crown for his son, voluntarily abdicated; but on the 10th of May the estates, dominated by the army, declared that not merely Gustavus but his whole family had forfeited the throne.

In Sicily Spanish rule was less absolute, for the island had not been conquered, but had given itself over voluntarily to the Aragonese; and the parliament, formed by the three bracci or orders (the militare consisting of the nobility, the ecclesiastico, of the clergy, and the demaniale, of the communes), imposed certain limitations on the viceroy, who had to play off the three bracci against each other.

It was during his stay in Asia (20 B.C.) that the Parthian king Phraates voluntarily restored the Roman prisoners and standards taken at Carrhae (53 B.C.), a welcome tribute to the respect inspired by Augustus, and a happy augury for the future.

The secessionist element was voluntarily or perforce excluded.

In 1347 it submitted voluntarily to Count Amedeus VI.

The mere fact that a distinguished statesman who had served the last two absolute kings of Denmark now voluntarily placed himself at the head of a ministry which included the most advanced of the popular agitators, gave the new government the hall-mark of stability and trustworthiness, whilst the fact that he still retained the ministry of finance was of itself a guarantee of security during the earlier years of a troublesome and costly war.

The red, or brownish-red, colour of the long and coarse hair at once distinguishes the orang-utan from the African apes; a further point of distinction being the excessive length of the arms, which are of such proportions that the animal when in the upright posture (which it seldom voluntarily assumes) can rest on its bent knuckles.

For it was largely due to an identification of dioceses and municipal territories that the nobles of the surrounding country took up their headquarters in the cities, either voluntarily or because forced to do so by the citizens, who made it their policy thus to turn possible opponents into partisans and defenders.

The Carthusian monks, to whom the monastery was entrusted by the founder, were bound to employ a certain proportion of their annual revenue in prosecuting the work till its completion, and even after 1542 the monks continued voluntarily to expend large sums on further decoration.

The first Sraddha takes place as soon as possible after the antyeshti (" final offering") or funeral ceremony proper, usually spread over ten days; being afterwards repeated once a month for a year, and subsequently at every anniversary and otherwise voluntarily on special occasions.

The economic element in the situation, which is imposed upon the individual by circumstances, is thus modified voluntarily into a moral or prudential consideration.

One view has been that it is covered by the sue and labour clause of an ordinary policy, by which the insurer agrees to bear his proportion of expenses voluntarily incurred "in and about the defence, safeguard and recovery" of the insured subject.

Expenses voluntarily incurred by the assured with that object are expressly made repayable by the sue and labour clause of the policy.

The greater number of the churches are united in association voluntarily formed, all of them determined by geographical limits.

In 1521 the nobles and cities of Esthonia voluntarily placed themselves under the protection of the crown of Sweden; but after the wars of Charles XII., Esthonia was formally ceded to his victorious rival, Peter the Great, by the peace of Nystad (1721).

He knew that Russia would never voluntarily relinquish the grand duchy, while Sweden could not hope to retain it permanently, even if she reconquered it.

For the cow is the animal which voluntarily yields nourishment to man and aids him in his daily labors, and on it depends the industry of the peasant as contrasted with the wild desert brigand to whom the cow is unknown.

The king of Cilicia (Syennesis) voluntarily acknowledged the Persian suzerainty.

The later Lutheran doctrine is "that man, unable as he is to will any good thing, can yet use the means of grace, and that these means of grace, carrying in themselves a divine power, produce a saving effect on all who do not voluntarily oppose their influence.

To act voluntarily, he says, is to act electively.

When the Carrara family succumbed in 1405, Este voluntarily surrendered to Venice and was allowed its independence, under a podesta; and thenceforth it followed the fortunes of Venetia.

For this amount the guilty person, and in his default his kindred, became legally debtor, and the injured person or family became entitled to recover the amount like a civil debt by distraint, if not paid voluntarily.

By the management of the princewho later in the reign was known as the prince consortthe great ladies of the household voluntarily tendered their resignations; and every obstacle to the formation of the new government was in this way removed.

In devising his scheme, Forster endeavoured to utilize, as far as possible, the educational machinery which had been voluntarily provided by various religious organizations.

The father voluntarily recognizes the superiority of the son and hands over to him the control of humanity.

He tried to retrieve his position in the country, and succeeded in a great measure, by granting a very liberal constitution (January 1889, or Dec. 1888 O.S.) at a time when all agitation for a new constitution had been given up. Then, to the great astonishment of the Servians and of his Russian enemies, King Milan voluntarily abdicated, placing the government of the country in the hands of a regency during the minority of his only son Alexander, whom he proclaimed king of Servia on the 6th of March 1889.

At an early date, as a foreign town began to spring up, the necessity of having some authority to lay out and pave streets, to build drains, &c., for the common benefit, became evident, and as the Chinese authorities shirked the work and the expense, the foreigners resolved to tax themselves voluntarily, and appointed a committee of works to see the money properly laid out.

Having allowed the July monarch to commit himself, Louis Napoleon at the last moment left Switzerland voluntarily.

The king voluntarily abandoned lay investiture and the claim to homage during the pontificate of Paschal II., but continued to interfere with elections, to appropriate the revenues of vacant benefices, and to exact an oath of fealty before admitting the elect to the enjoyment of his temporalities.

After the battle, however, she refused to submit voluntarily to Philip, and was forced to do so by the devastation of Laconia and the transference of certain border districts to the neighbouring states of Argos, Arcadia and Messenia.

The idea of public authority had been replaced by one Dismemthat was simpler and therefore better fitted for a half- berinent of civilized societythat of dependence of the weak on the kingthe strong, voluntarily entered on by means of mutual dow.

The idea Darkyn voluntarily took a bond to a human when he made a name for himself disobeying his former master … There might be a reason Darkyn hadn't explained it to his mate.

Mansr's parting warning, that she must voluntarily accept her role and Anshan as her home, had struck him as odd, for why would she not when he honored her with the greatest honor ever bestowed upon a non-ruling Anshan?

Edward VIII was the only British monarch who voluntarily abdicated the throne.

Crucially, those already receiving an incapacity benefit can participate voluntarily.

Would it not be absurd for any one to choose voluntarily those articles which contain more bile, rather than those containing less?

We wanted to try to avoid conflict by having him voluntarily disarm.

We cannot guarantee that any information that you may voluntarily disclose on the Internet outside our site is kept private.

In short, he voluntarily divests himself of many of his divine attributes.

The Chairman and Convenor work voluntarily, while the Secretary receives a small emolument for a part-time job.

It was not to be expected that they would voluntarily do so, but surely it ought to have been specifically enjoined.

A first step must be to expedite agreement to create incentives for states to voluntarily forego the development of fuel cycle facilities.

A first step would be to create incentives for countries to voluntarily forgo the development of fuel-cycle facilities.

They must not voluntarily take, throw or kick the ball out of reach of the kicker or the kicker's team-mates.

For organizations reducing emissions voluntarily, carbon offsets provide a means to become carbon neutral.

The developer might voluntarily relinquish all or part of the planning consent in recognition of the value of the site for nature conservation.

His country had voluntarily renounced any nuclear program at the beginning of the 1990s.

Debates over ceding sovereignty voluntarily can prove heated, as citizens imagine the implications for their national identity and democratic institutions.

These companies voluntarily undergo independent audits to verify the continuing quality and fitness for purpose of their products.

Fichte (the younger) did not escape this misinterpretation of Lotze's true meaning, though they had his Metaphysik and Logik to refer to, though he promised in his Allgemeine Physiologie (1851) to enter in a subsequent work upon the "bounding province between aesthetics and physiology," and though in his Medizinische Psychologie he had distinctly stated that his position was neither the idealism of Hegel nor the realism of Herbart, nor materialism, but that it was the conviction that the essence of everything is the part it plays in the realization of some idea which is in itself valuable, that the sense of an all-pervading mechanism is to be sought in this that it denotes the ways and means by which the highest idea, which we may call the idea of the good, has voluntarily chosen to realize itself.

Another difference between the two animals is to be found in the great intolerance of the direct rays of the sun displayed by the Asiatic species, which never voluntarily exposes itself to their influence.

Sometimes an individual came forward voluntarily to perform these duties on behalf of another state (10EXoirpo evos).

Descendants of Rurik, impregnated with the pride of a dominant military caste, did not much like serving those truculent, wilful burghers, and some of them, after a time, voluntarily laid down their office and retired to more congenial surroundings.

The recently created royalties sought from the papacy the conservation of their titles and the benediction of their crowns, and placed themselves voluntarily in its vassalage.

In such an event, the competitors appealed to the Holy See and abdicated their right, either voluntarily or under coercion, in manibus papae, while the pope took possession of the vacant see.

So long as the emperor really reigned, they enjoyed only such liberties as they could wring from him, or as he voluntarily conferred.

The behaviour and cries of birds, and angang or meeting with ominous animals, &c., may be voluntarily observed, and opportunities for observation made; but this is not necessary for success.

But Gladstone was not content with these great alterations, which involved a loss of nearly 1,200,000 a year to the exchequer; he voluntarily undertook to sacrifice another million on what he called a supple.mental measure of customs reform.

All are required to abstain from tobacco and wine; the women used not to be allowed to wear gold or silver, or silk or brocade, but this rule is commonly broken now; and although neither celibacy nor retirement from the affairs of the world is either imperative or customary, unusual respect is shown to those who voluntarily submit themselves to ascetic discipline.

Boxing matches still occur, but the boxers participate voluntarily.

Miss XXX ceased employment because she resigned voluntarily, and not on ill-health grounds.

This country quite voluntarily surrendered the once seemingly immortal concept of the sovereignty of parliament and legislative freedom by membership of the European Union.

For example, a state may voluntarily submit to the sovereignty of another state or two states may merge into an entirely new body.

By clicking this button above, you will be voluntarily subscribing at 5.00 UK pounds every 3 months.

When a childcare center voluntarily seeks accreditation it is an indicator that the program is interested in maintaining a standard of excellence.

While your child can learn to recognize the feeling of needing to urinate during the day, he won't voluntarily recognize this same feeling once he is asleep.

The salvage yard is a great place to pick up recycled items that have been removed from commercial and private properties, as well as voluntarily donated pieces from both old and new houses.

A man may also voluntarily admit paternity of a child.

Some companies, such as Gaia Herbs, voluntarily enact stringent testing protocols and ensure high quality herbal products, while other no-name brands may not be as scrupulous about their products.

At the at time, Revitalash was using small amounts of bimatoprost in its formula, but as a precautionary measure, the company voluntarily decided to suspend the sale of that particular formula.

Many teens voluntarily choose to sign an agreement with their parents until they gain some driving experience and even beyond.

One of the most beneficial treatments for liars is counseling, but this needs to happen voluntarily.

An addiction intervention can help your loved one voluntarily decide to get the help he or she needs.

After reading the letter, the loved one should ask if the addicted person will voluntarily seek help.

In October 2006, he voluntarily checked himself into the Betty Ford Center in Southern California for alcohol addiction.

Josh "Jag" Garcia, who was one of two vying for the top spot on the third season of The Next Food Network Star, voluntarily eliminated himself a week before America picked the show's winner.

Weiland's management states that he submitted voluntarily to a Breathalyzer test and that the results do not indicate that the singer was intoxicated.

Sharon Osbourne confirmed that her daughter had voluntarily entered rehab, but when asked further details as to why, she stated that everyone could find out from Kelly when she got out.

Brown turned himself in voluntarily to the police the next day.

Although three types of Nutro wet cat and dog food were voluntarily recalled due to possible contamination, none of Nutro's dry foods were involved, nor are they manufactured by Menu Foods.

Just like you wouldn't voluntarily rub chemicals on your baby's skin, you shouldn't place them against your baby's skin all day long.

Paralysis-Loss of the ability to move one or more parts of the body voluntarily due to muscle or nerve damage.

While people can generally cough voluntarily, a true cough is usually a reflex triggered when an irritant stimulates one or more of the cough receptors found at different points in the respiratory system.

Promoting play for a sick child is a challenge when the child cannot voluntarily engage in play.

Running away involves being voluntarily absent from home at least overnight without permission from a parent or caretaker.

Most runaways return voluntarily within a few days.

Individuals cannot voluntarily produce symptoms of VCD, so they are usually exposed to an irritant or undergo an exercise stress test in order to bring on a VCD attack.

However, people who voluntarily quit their jobs or who are fired for performance or disciplinary reasons are not eligible to receive benefits.

A borrower can voluntarily pay more than what is required each month, but may incur a penalty charge for doing so.

The FDA issued a public health advisory to inform patients and health-care professionals that the sponsor of Zelnorm, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation had voluntarily agreed to refrain from selling this drug.

Members of the National Candle Association voluntarily stopped using lead in their candle wicks in the 1970s, however.

This falls just short of spam, because it is actually giving you free ebooks, and you are voluntarily putting in your name in the subscription box.

This means they have voluntarily agreed to meet standards set by a child care association such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children or the National Association for Family Child Care.

Though employees attend these programs voluntarily, without the EAP programs many employees would not be able to continue on in their current circumstances.

Toyota voluntarily recalled more than 94,000 2011 Siennas for issues with the location of the brake lamp switch bracket.

Sometimes car companies will voluntarily recall a vehicle if they receive complaints about safety or if their internal testing indicates that there may be a problem.

Alternatively, the manufacturer may voluntarily issue a safety recall.

It is activated when you exhale and when you voluntarily contract your abdominal muscles.

It is activated by voluntarily drawing in the abdominal area, or by exhaling.

By voluntarily contracting the abdominal muscles, you force them to share the work load.

A flat tummy begins with the ability to voluntarily activate and use your deep core muscles.

Any of these individuals qualify when an employee is either voluntarily or involuntarily terminated from their job (unless it's for "gross misconduct") or if the employee has reduced hours that limited health benefits.

Before the COBRA stimulus package, Americans were only allowed to keep their employer sponsored health insurance for 18 to 36 months after they left their jobs either voluntarily or due to a layoff or cutback in hours.

By 2010, some ISPs were voluntarily shutting down accounts of users who used P2P and bit torrent networks to download copyrighted material while other ISPs were fighting RIAA claims in court.

Leslie left the house voluntarily because she wanted to try and make a better life for herself but felt the attitudes of the others were counterproductive to her goals.

When the other girls got too rowdy for her, she left the house voluntarily.

She decided to leave the house voluntarily rather than be kicked out, and was replaced with Ashley.

Many have either voluntarily left treatment before completion, or have been removed from the rehabilitation facility they were assigned due to out-of-control behavior and rule breaking.

Brandon Westlake moseyed by with Paulette and Ginger Dawkins, the first time Dean had seen the women voluntarily in one another's company.

Rhyn wouldn't saddle himself with a blood monkey he had to actually take care of voluntarily.

To comprehend the real position we are forced to the conviction that the world of facts is the field in which, and that laws are the means by which, those higher standards of moral and aesthetical value are being realized; and such a union can again only become intelligible through the idea of a personal Deity, who in the creation and preservation of a world has voluntarily chosen certain forms and laws, through the natural operation of which the ends of His work are gained.

We have already mentioned the final conception in which Lotze's speculation culminates, that of a personal Deity, Himself the essence of all that merits existence for its own sake, who in the creation and government of a world has voluntarily chosen certain laws and forms through which His ends are to be realized.

A law of 1879, which deprived of citizenship all Hungarians who had voluntarily been absent ten years, was a.

The non-commissioned officers are, as usual in universal service armies, drawn partly from men who voluntarily enlist at a relatively early age, and partly from men who at the end of their compulsory period of service are re-engaged.

He then requested Charles Albert to take the papal troops under his command, and also wrote to the emperor of Austria asking him voluntarily to relinquish Lombardy and Venetia.

The civil list, which the law of the 10th of August 1862 had fixed at 650,000 a year, but which had been voluntarily reduced by the king to 530,000 in 1864, and to 490,000 in 1867, was thus raised to 570,000 a year.

By the manifesto of the 17/30th of October 1905 the emperor voluntarily limited his legislative power by decreeing that no measure was to become law without the consent of the Imperial Duma, a freely elected national assembly.

He voluntarily left Liegnitz in 1529, and lived at Strasburg for five years amongst the Reformed clergy there.

A deserter announced his arrival to Vespasian, who rejoiced (Josephus says) that the cleverest of his enemies had thus voluntarily imprisoned himself.

The king of Cilicia (Syennesis) voluntarily acknowledged the Persian supremacy.

The lay subjects of the Order consisted of two classes; on the one hand there were the conquered Prussians, in a position of serfdom, bound in time of war to serve with the brethren in foreign expeditions; on the other hand there were the German immigrants, both urban and rural, along with the free Prussians who had voluntarily submitted and remained faithful.

What has thus voluntarily been done in England would in most other countries be left to the state, or would not be attempted at all.

The relationship of landlord and tenant may be altered either voluntarily, by the act of the parties, or involuntarily, by the operation of law, and may also be dissolved.

Hence at first, in 1882, they were used only by a section of the market constituted of members who had voluntarily agreed to do business with one another upon these terms alone.

Antipas was deprived of his dominions and banished to Lyons, Herodias voluntarily sharing his exile.

In 1509, at the outset of the war of the League of Cambray, the town gave itself voluntarily to the emperor Maximilian, to whom it was ceded formally by Venice in 1517, and next year incorporated with Tirol.

Conscience money is the name given to a payment voluntarily made by a person who has evaded his obligations, especially in respect of taxes and the like.

Thus the Nestorian Church in India, voluntarily and with perfect indifference to theological dogmas, passed under Jacobite rule, and when early in the 18th century, Mar Gabriel, a Nestorian bishop, came to Malabar, he had a cool reception, and could only detach a small following of Syrians whom he brought back to the old Nestorianism.

After enjoying almost complete autonomy for fourteen years, the Indians voluntarily surrendered their privileged position, and on the 10th of November 1894 their territory was formally incorporated in that of the republic of Nicaragua, as the department of Zelaya.

In retirement she could devote herself wholly to art and science, and the opportunity of astonishing the world by the unique spectacle of a great queen, in the prime of life, voluntarily resigning her crown, strongly appealed to her vivid imagination.

The second son of Victor Emmanuel II., Amadeus, duke of Aosta, was offered the crown of Spain by the Cortes in 1870, which he accepted, but, finding that his rule was not popular, he voluntarily abdicated in 1873 rather than cause civil war.

In the former act he embodied a provision regulating and giving authority to the peculiar customs, usages, and regulations voluntarily adopted by the miners in various districts of the state for the adjudication of disputed mining claims. This, as Judge Field truly says, "was the foundation of the jurisprudence respecting mines in the country," having greatly influenced legislation upon this subject in other states and in the Congress of the United States.

It is probable that Herodotus shared his relative's political opinions, and either was exiled from Halicarnassus or quitted it voluntarily at the time of his execution.

The services, too, of the educated public are often voluntarily placed at the disposal of the local authorities for the census night, with' no desire for remuneration beyond out-of-pocket expenses, and the addition, perhaps, of a personal letter of thanks from the chief official of the district.

The notion of obtaining a periodical record of population and its movement, dissociated from fiscal or other liabilities, originated, as stated above, in Sweden, where, in 1686, the birth and death registers, till then kept voluntarily by the parish clergy, were made compulsory and general, the results for each year being communicated to a central office.

Here Browne distinguishes acceptance of the covenant relation with God (religion) and the forming or " planting " of churches on the basis of God's covenant (with its laws of government), from the enforcing of the covenant voluntarily accepted, whether by church-excommunication or by civil penalties - the latter only in cases of flagrant impiety, such as idolatry, blasphemy or Sabbath-breaking.

Of course neither of these creeds was in the least binding upon ministers or upon churches, except so far as in each instance they might be voluntarily adopted.

A few weeks after the victory the towns of Thorn, Elbing, Braunsberg and Danzig submitted to the Polish king; and all the Prussian bishops voluntarily offered to render him homage.

A disastrous war with Ivan III., the first Muscovite tsar, speedily convinced the Lithuanians that they were not strong enough to stand alone, and in 1499 they voluntarily renewed the union.

When things came to a deadlock the king tactfully intervened and voluntarily relinquished his hereditary title to Lithuania, thus placing the two countries on a constitutional equality and preparing the way for fresh negotiations in the future.

The Board has also a certain control over the curriculum of schools under the Endowed Schools Acts and the Charitable Trusts Acts, and also over that of schools voluntarily applying for inspection with a view to being recognized as efficient.

But the Federal armaments were not on such a scale as to enable the government to cope with a "nation in arms," and the first call for volunteers was followed by more and more, until in the end the Federals had more than a million men under arms. At first the troops on both sides were voluntarily enlisted, but the South quickly, the North later, put in force conscription acts.

Greek was not as yet part of the arts curriculum, and to learn it voluntarily was ill looked upon by the authorities.

If the result was satisfactory, he was admitted, but before partaking of the common meal he was required to swear awful oaths, that he would reverence the deity, do justice to men, hurt no man voluntarily or at the command of another, hate the unjust and assist the just, and that he would render fidelity to all men, but especially to the rulers, seeing that no one rules but of God.

Perhaps the most striking instance of such devotion was that displayed at the battle of Strassburg in 357, when the Alamannic king Chonodomarius was taken prisoner by the Romans, and his two hundred comites gave themselves up voluntarily to share his captivity.

The Churches of England and Germany, founded, far from all traditions of autonomy, by Roman legates, tendered their obedience voluntarily.

Surrendered means voluntarily given to shelters by their owners or guardians.

The class of coloni appears to have been composed partly of tenants by contract who had incurred large arrears of rent and were detained on the estates as debtors (obaerati), partly of foreign captives or immigrants who were settled in this condition on the land, and partly of small proprietors and other poor men who voluntarily adopted the status as an improvement in their position.

Thus, out of respect for the wishes of the nation, the king had voluntarily thrown open to public discussion the hitherto strictly closed and jealously guarded domain of the army.

Already (1887) the government had voluntarily made a great step in advance by divesting itself of the right to imprison or fine editors by executive order.

Hengstenberg, he endeavoured to convince the rationalists that it was their duty voluntarily and at once to withdraw from the national church.

Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them.

Dean could not understand someone voluntarily subjecting themselves to the tedium of the molasses-process of justice.

The idea Darkyn voluntarily took a bond to a human when he made a name for himself disobeying his former master … There might be a reason Darkyn hadn't explained it to his mate.

Weller's only concession was to say he'd talk to Shipton in hopes of getting him to leave voluntarily, if he could find the time.