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The Nankai report authors write glowingly of an effort to combat poverty underwritten by a "guarantee of voluntariness" in the work placements, and with the factories allowing the workers to "leave and return freely."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2021

“If that had been true, surely they would have brought those issues up and prevailed in pretrial hearings on the voluntariness of their statements, as well as in their lawsuit against the city,” she wrote.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2019

By the nineteen-sixties, the notion of voluntariness had become so troublesome that jurists sought a way to clarify the matter.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2018

Dreeben insists again that there is an “element of voluntariness in signing up for a bank account and using a debit card to purchase everything in your life.”

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017

But it is not thus that voluntariness is in irrational animals, as stated above.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint