5 sentences with 'voluntary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word voluntary and other words derived from it.
• « In the United States, almost 53,000 passive smokers died in 1992, out of a total of 400,000 people who die as a result of their voluntary decision to smoke, figures that are decreasing thanks to the obsessive anti-smoking zeal of the American health authorities. »
• « A person's voluntary attempts to do good things to get to heaven were always inadequate; what mattered was that a believer's sincere faith could inspire an infinite act of mercy on God's part. »
• « Never again in the war would a moment of voluntary peace re-emerge; though they did not know for certain at the time, the soldiers faced four more years of carnage to come. »
• « On 11 November 1918, a voluntary commission of German politicians led by the German Socialist Party (SPD) formally demanded peace. »
• « This rare and incurable disease attacks the nerves in the spinal cord and regions of the brain that control voluntary motor functions. The cells gradually degenerate, causing paralysis as muscles throughout the body atrophy. »