Because those are voluntary distractions.

75 people volunteered, took personality tests.

They are having a lot of women volunteers around them.

You know, without them even calling, they'll get a lot of women volunteers.

KDE is a free software project that lives from voluntary contributions.

Here are just some of the biggest movements of people, voluntary movements, in the last 5,000 years.

1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.

Only a slim provision that made joint inspections with the IAEA voluntary made it into the final agreement.

Thereafter, Chinese volunteer forces continued the resistance to Japanese aggression in Manchuria, and Chahar and Suiyuan.

National emissions targets are voluntary, rather than inscribed in the agreement, so they are not legally binding.

These first collectivizations were voluntary and were established from the lands that belonged to the members and those which had been requisitioned from those who were fugitive or missing.

In addition to required reserves , credit institutions usually hold only a small amount of voluntary excess reserves with the Eurosystem .

Jeejuah, 30, and two other women, all volunteers, are cooking for 12 of the most important, but invisible, people in Liberia right now.

Special UN programmes not included in the regular budget, such as UNICEF and the World Food Programme, are financed by voluntary contributions from member governments, corporations, and private individuals.

The nervous system is the part of an animal's body that coordinates its voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals between different parts of its body.

Contributions are compulsory for the EU central banks participating in the ERM and voluntary for EU central banks not participating in the ERM .

Chernyi advocated a Nietzschean overthrow of the values of bourgeois Russian society, and rejected the voluntary communes of anarcho communist Peter Kropotkin as a threat to the freedom of the individual.

As a result, India s policy mirrors China s it has aligned itself with mandatory international sanctions, but has abjured voluntary Western financial restrictions.

Second , on the occasion of the regular fiveyearly review of the SDR valuation and interest rate baskets on 1 January 2001 , the IMF decided to substitute a currency based approach for the country based approach

His dishes and snacks proved a success with the guests, and they suggested he use his talents to open his own business. Thus was born Talal Syrian Cuisine, a food on demand delivery service he operates from his own home, providing food for parties and events in São Paulo including São Paulo's traditional Immigrant Party, which this year had its 20th anniversary and served dinners for 400 people at Pari Mosque (the city's main mosque) during Ramadan.

Throughout his reign Charles was obliged to rely primarily on volunteer forces for defence and on diplomatic efforts to support his sister, Elizabeth, and his foreign policy objective for the restoration of the Palatinate.

The burden of the initial defense of the city fell on the 1077th Anti Aircraft Regiment, a unit made up mainly of young female volunteers who had no training for engaging ground targets.

In fulfillment of his commitment, Mitre arranged for the Colorado militia, Argentine volunteer units and supplies to be carried aboard Argentine vessels to Uruguay in May and June 1863.

We need to take what we've learned in private, voluntary standards of what the best producers in the world are doing and use that to inform government regulation, so we can shift the entire performance curve.

Finally , since November 2000 , the ECB is a prescribed holder of special drawing rights ( SDRs ) and is thus able to participate in voluntary transactions with IMF member countries and other prescribed SDR holders .

While Suomen Pankki and Sveriges Riksbank decided not to participate for the time being in the ERM , they expressed their intention to make voluntary contributions of gold and US dollars against ECUs to the EMI .

The ECB 's foreign reserves include some amounts of special drawing rights ( SDRs ) . These result from voluntary transactions of the ECB with other SDR holders under the standing agreement with the IMF ( see Section 5.3.1 ) .

In his view, transactions in a market economy are voluntary, and that the wide diversity that voluntary activity permits is a fundamental threat to repressive political leaders and greatly diminish their power to coerce.

As the army grew in size to 50,000 men with the accumulation of several volunteer forces, Yi Kwang and the irregular commanders reconsidered their aim to reclaim the capital, and led the combined forces north to Suwon.

With the OECD and the International Monetary Fund, along with many NGOs and voluntary companies, supporting such rules, opponents such as the American Petroleum Institute, which has filed a lawsuit against the SEC are unlikely to succeed.

On 15 November 2000 , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved the ECB 's application to become a prescribed holder of special drawing rights ( SDRs ) , thereby enabling the ECB to participate in voluntary transactions with IMF member countries and other prescribed SDR holders .

Legal measures provide the context for more 'voluntary' actions, either at the level of an individual organisation or company in the form of equal opportunity, equal treatment or antidiscrimination policies, or at a national or sectoral level in the form of collective agreements by the social partners.

The European Development Fund (EDF, 22.7 bn, 2008 2013) is made up of voluntary contributions by member states, but there is pressure to merge the EDF into the budget financed instruments to encourage increased contributions to match the 0.7 target and allow the European Parliament greater oversight.

Some steps have already been taken , ranging from ex ante and voluntary measures ( such as the establishment of regular communication channels between debtor countries and their private creditors and the arrangement of private sector contingent credit lines ) to more compulsory schemes ( for instance , the Paris Club required a country to seek comparable treatment from its bond creditors ) .

When quotas were banned under the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the United States, Britain and the European Union made use of equivalent arrangements known as voluntary restraint agreements (VRAs) or voluntary export restraints (VERs) which were negotiated with the governments of exporting countries (mainly Japan) until they too were banned.