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The Supreme Court felt that these warnings were critical in order to ensure the confessions are truly voluntary and not coerced. And now what the 4th Circuit has said is, we don't need these warnings. And I think what that will lead to is more coerced confessions.

Texas is failing to meet federal environmental clean air standards and therefore there is pressure to lower pollution from these facilities. Gov. Bush has taken a position that they should do so through a voluntary program.

Sadly the U.S. industry has not bitten the bullet and accepted the need for a compulsory system rather than voluntary system at this point.

Science and Nature should take the lead in the wake of this scandal. In a world where financial incentives can warp the scientific enterprise just as much as the lust for scientific prestige, it is incumbent that journal editors have strict conflict-of-interest disclosure policies. And, given the voluntary nature of disclosure, they should have teeth like a three-year ban on publishing for failing to disclose.

Rather than cramming solutions down the system's throat, we believe voluntary initiatives with a degree of consensus have a better chance of being implemented.

People ought to tithe because they belong to a community that they believe in and they want to see prosper. Tithing is a form of voluntary taxation. In our culture, we should spend more time thinking in communitarian terms about taxation.

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

AOL opposes the concept of any kind of an e-mail tax. Certified e-mail is an additional, optional, voluntary way for large e-mail senders to deliver authenticated, legitimate, previously opted-in e-mail.

A voluntary UL standard requires that the units remain upright when placed on a ten-degree angle and a 70-pound weight is placed on top of it to simulate a television.

As part of our ongoing voluntary efforts to provide our customers with the best science-based information, we continually enhance our testing.

This is a purely voluntary program. It's an individual's choice and there's no way we can put a forecast or number on that.

This confirms what parents have been telling us for years now. Parents want voluntary full-day kindergarten because it works. Parents want strong classroom teachers for the same reason: because it works. No surprises here.

This agreement is a voluntary commitment by our private sector to help the government create a system for monitoring and reporting on the levels of GHG emissions in South Africa,

This is about having a voluntary program to allow senior citizens to choose the right program for them, it's having big government out of the solution, and seniors and their families in the solution,

Although what is being done in 1996 in our emergency rooms bears no moral resemblance to what happened 50 years ago in Nazi, Germany; nevertheless, the issue of voluntary participation in research is a very delicate matter.

They may be waiting for a shakeout; they may be waiting for more information. Or they have decided they don't want coverage - it is a voluntary program, after all.

There isn't anything that will happen because of the partnership. It relies entirely on voluntary action and the hope that industry will come forward.

The report calls for more water flow on a voluntary basis. It does not require any one that is involved to make sacrifices. The new plan relies on maximum fish barging. This is not the aggressive non-dam breaching plan NMFS said it was going to be. It's a passive, non-breaching plan.

This may result in a fuel shortage at the Johannesburg International Airport, and the need for fuel rationing. All airlines were requested to immediately begin voluntary fuel rationing, where possible, of at least 15% less than normal operations.

This is a voluntary community improvement program that establishes a working plan for urban forests.

They're going to have to do some voluntary conservation -- take shorter showers, don't wash your car as often, don't water your lawn unless you are putting down some new grass.

As we continue to add more capacity with the runway projects, we will ask the FAA to take a look at voluntary flight reductions and roll them back.

A strong public education system is just essential to business and economic growth. We've been focused on desegregation for 41 years. Now, we get to focus on the next step. It's up to us to do it. No one has a big stick standing over us. I always find that voluntary efforts are the most fruitful - plus, we have no excuses.

It's as big a scandal, for example, as the voluntary severance packages in schools which stripped education of so many skills and experience at the cost of billions of rands, and the schools system hasn't recovered.

It's going to be necessary, because we couldn't reach the voluntary sale agreement.

It's our understanding that it is a voluntary resignation,

It's strictly voluntary ... The letters will be an invitation.

Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.

The board has made her working conditions intolerable ... She's being forced out -- let's face it. This is not a voluntary resignation. The work is so far from over -- it's just a shame Arlene doesn't get to stay here and finish it. She's a tremendous leader, a tremendous educator and a wonderful human being.

The attorney general made those strong pronouncements before the case began to face the scrutiny of defense attorneys, questions about how voluntary were Walker Lindh's statements during government interrogations, and issues involving how particular statutes are applied,

The available scientific evidence proves that wild Atlantic salmon in the United States are on the brink of extinction. The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service disregarded the scientific evidence and violated their statutory mandate under the ESA when they accepted Maine's voluntary plan instead of federal listing.

It's clear that voluntary disclosure is not working and even small gifts can influence behavior.

It's an end run around the voluntary bans that the networks respect. This will be the equivalent of a branded liquor bottle racing around the track.

I've heard people say I was forced out -- I was not forced out. This was a voluntary act.

I want to assure you that agency negotiators are working very hard, in good faith, to obtain an agreement with NATCA. It has always been -- and remains -- my strong preference to resolve our contract issues on a voluntary basis.

It will put an end to the movie industry's voluntary film rating system because it penalizes those distributors who participate in this voluntary system and gives total immunity from any penalty to a producer or distributor who distributes a film without a rating, ... a reaction on the part of Congress to require labeling.

The voluntary standard that applies to paper shredders is that the opening can't allow a 12-year-old's finger to fit inside the paper shredder.

There's very little we can do. This has to be a voluntary deal for the faculty and staff, and we are asking them to be good stewards of our natural resources.

Once the voluntary evacuation has taken place, we will concentrate our resources and our forces on the mandatory evacuation.

After this decision, Iran has to immediately bring into force its parliamentary law to suspend voluntary implementation of (the watchdog agency's) Additional Protocol (on snap inspections) and (pursue) commercial-scale enrichment which until today was under complete suspension.

The Mexican government needs to ensure that rape victims do not have to endure dangerous back-alley abortions or imposed pregnancies. A public official who fails to inform rape victims of how they can obtain a voluntary legal abortion is contributing to a human rights violation and should be disciplined.

I later denied any wrongdoing in public statements and in voluntary interviews with prosecutors, ... The government's attempt to criminalize these actions makes no sense to me.

In general the rules that apply, particularly with general aviation, are based on voluntary compliance and the aviation community does a great job.

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

In any event, we continue to believe that a voluntary near-term bankruptcy for GM/GMAC is of very low probability. We continue to believe that the biggest risk arguably would be a UAW strike at Delphi. ... Our sense currently is that a significant labor disruption at Delphi remains a remote likelihood.

If Qwest offered voluntary overtime, I think they'd find enough people to take it,

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

In order to prove whether it was voluntary or involuntary, you must have access to Ms. Hamm or a psychologist who can talk to Ms. Hamm. When we filed the motion, we believed that would be forthcoming and we would have that access.

In our view, voluntary programs, such as our green generation, should be given an opportunity to mature, grow and develop.

In the present-day situation, with the state of affairs as it is, it is not a voluntary situation, with all the injustices in the power differential between men and women.

In theory, the boards should be using the Greenway book as part of their decision-making process, but the key word is 'voluntary.' It's a voluntary program, based on incentives and guidelines, rather than requirements and mandates.

If there is a move on the part of anyone to discard this kind of voluntary labeling or to turn their backs on this because finally we're feeling compelled to put some teeth into the enforcement, I think we'd have to take a hard look at that.

By focusing intense efforts on Botswana, we hope to show what can be achieved with comprehensive efforts across the entire spectrum of care, from voluntary testing and counseling and education to the provision of increased access to medicines and appropriate monitoring of treatment,

I don't see a voluntary return of more than 1 million displaced people to their villages to start in the next three weeks because of lack of security.

I am pleased however that our shop stewards and members have accepted a settlement that will see the great majority of our members go back to work or take voluntary separation,

I do not like to force property owners to go to different schools simply because of new growth. Let people do it on a voluntary basis.

If Congress will pass a plan that gives real, voluntary Medicare prescription drug coverage ... then I will sign a marriage penalty relief law,

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.

The Iranian government must now bring into force our law to suspend voluntary cooperation.

These figures show an immediate need to redouble our efforts to increase our voluntary compliance programs that have proven so effective in reducing workplace injuries and death where they have been implemented.

The enrichment will continue. But regarding the Additional Protocol, we will continue implementing the Additional Protocol as a voluntary measure.

The ESA is extremely pleased that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Computer Entertainment America have voluntarily stepped up to take concrete steps to put the power to regulate the games kids play where it belongs ? in the hands of parents, not government, retailers, or anyone else. The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.

The guidelines that the federal government has come out with are all voluntary suggestions. They're not actually required.

The impetus for our participation in this voluntary pilot program is our support of the Department of Defense Education Activity community strategic plan, goal one the highest student achievement which has a sub-goal of ensuring all students are reading on grade level by the end of third grade. It is our intent to meet that goal as early in a child's life as possible. DIBELS may be an effective tool to assist us in that endeavor.

All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers.

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away