voluntary acceptance

collocation in English

meaningsofvoluntaryandacceptance

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk
/əkˈsep.təns/us
/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandacceptancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What is of relevance, instead, is the ongoingvoluntaryacceptanceof the club's constitution by its current members.
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By the middle forties it began to be recognized that propaganda, instruction andvoluntaryacceptanceof the new methods were inadequate.
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However, they could not change pre-existing employment entitlements without thevoluntaryacceptanceof health professionals.
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In fact, most wage stability has come from thevoluntaryacceptanceof the standstill and severe restraint.
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Those regulations could have included new model clauses recommended to the companies for theirvoluntaryacceptance.
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My worries are extended because the scheme has avoluntaryacceptance.
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We have already shown, after three and a half months of the exercise of this policy, a quite remarkable degree ofvoluntaryacceptanceof it.
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Any policy has to have behind it a large measure ofvoluntaryacceptance.
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Every time an unpopular award is given, the important habit ofvoluntaryacceptanceof arbitration decisions is threatened.
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This policy has nothing to do withvoluntaryacceptance.
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Theirvoluntaryacceptanceby all concerned is more likely to be effective in preserving them than any arbitrary rule.
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Voluntaryacceptanceand self-regulation by industry and commerce will be the best methods.
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Policies that work—and even these are difficult—are based onvoluntaryacceptanceand consent.
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We want it to be avoluntaryacceptanceof something which the force of events makes inescapable.
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They are not a substitute for the generalvoluntaryacceptanceby those of our people (who constitute the majority) who recognise the need for restraint.
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It is avoluntaryacceptanceof a voluntary discipline, and we are free to reject it, and some of us do reject it.
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I think the paradox is that controls of the kind suggested must rest uponvoluntaryacceptance.
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So far, with private employers, it is largely a question ofvoluntaryacceptanceof the principle.
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It is far better to havevoluntaryacceptanceof a standard of information to provide necessary help to all people.
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Thevoluntaryacceptanceof restraints on the prescribing of amphetamines is a professional matter on which the initiative is being taken by the medical profession itself.
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