"In those cases, I hope we can depend on management to act voluntarily," the text said.

Their argument is that since people won't co-operate, won't act for the public interest voluntarily, we've got to force them to.

Under the agency's review process, the ban on those uses would not take effect until the spring of 1991, unless the manufacturers act voluntarily.

"The city was obviously not prepared to act voluntarily, and the judge had shown tremendous patience until now," he said.

In a theoretical free society, all individuals act voluntarily, having the freedom to obtain the power and resources to fulfill their own potential.

But he has refrained from introducing any legislation, hoping that television executives would act voluntarily.

He said this could be achieved by the press itself, acting voluntarily, "which would protect citizens from lies or manipulation of information."

It must be shown that the plaintiff acted voluntarily in the sense that he could exercise a free choice.

It could also be argued that the doctor was not acting voluntarily.

The plaintiff must act voluntarily, so any person who has no choice as to whether they enter premises is not volenti.