act of volition
act of will

They talk about having faith, as if it could be done by an act of volition.

For example, preferring, which seems perhaps best to express the act of volition, does it not precisely.

We are not, as an act of volition, going to cut ourselves off from the supporters of the future."

If I take any action at all to change things it means that when I die an act of volition is included.

An act of volition produces motion in our limbs, or raises a new idea in our imagination.

That requIRed TOO great an act of volition.

Sin could be repented of by an act of volition; failure could not be disposed of so easily.

So far from being conscious of this energy in the will, it requires as certain experience as that of which we are possessed, to convince us that such extraordinary effects do ever result from a simple act of volition.

They drove a short way along the coast to a restaurant that was neither smart nor squalid, hushed nor noisy, and where a dinner they paid no attention to was served to them seemingly without any act of volition.

And to this it has been answered, that, in most cases, a man is not at liberty to forbear the act of volition: he must exert an act of his will, whereby the action proposed is made to exist or not to exist.

"You think becoming an artist is your act of volition, but probably, it chose me," Ms. Alvarez said recently in her art- and plant-strewn loft, where she lives with her husband, Kazunari Kuno, a physician, and Bingo, her rollerblading companion.

The 25-member commission, headed by Robert F. Wagner Jr., implied that the city's future is not simply a matter of fielding problems as they occur, but that the city can will itself to evolve in certain directions - that its form and social life can be an act of volition.

Secondly, That willing, or volition, being an action, and freedom consisting in a power of acting or not acting, a man in respect of willing or the act of volition, when any action in his power is once proposed to his thoughts, as presently to be done, cannot be free.

But the act of volition, or preferring one of the two, being that which he cannot avoid, a man, in respect of that act of willing, is under a necessity, and so cannot be free; unless necessity and freedom can consist together, and a man can be free and bound at once.

Or, if it is true that in order to fly on the earth's surface, to keep oneself suspended in the air merely by the play of the muscles, there requires a strength a hundred and fifty times greater than that which we possess, a simple act of volition, a caprice, would bear us into space, if attraction did not exist."

Should I stop it all with an act of will?

So he decided then, as an act of will, that it would last until his work was done.

He also created, pretty much by an act of will, a new corporate culture.

But I couldn't possibly bring it back simply through an act of will.

She seemed to calm herself by an act of will.

Through an act of will, she faced her father again.

It had been a supreme act of will, because they both knew so much better.

They just didn't realize that it could be an act of will.

And that, she told herself, had taken an enormous act of will.

A subject knows his acts of will only after the fact, in time.

Even slipping away for just a few hours is an act of will.

This was an act of will to which he had trained himself.

The power must be transferred by an act of will.

It took an act of will to address her father as a lawyer.

All that it takes is the desire and an act of will.

It was not created by an external act of will.

The movement was slow, a hard, near impossible act of will.

There is no act of will involved at all in forgetting.

It was a difficult act of will and took a long time to accomplish.

In such worlds, it can be said that everything is an act of will.

This can be either using a set formula or by a simple act of will.

It took a certain act of will, but he kept his mind from calling out again to the silence.

He focused on me with a sheer act of will.

But perhaps he could transcend such things by an act of will.

He could fly, apparently by an act of will, up to five hundred miles per hour.