CWBs are "active and volitional acts engaged in by individuals, as opposed to accidental or unintentional actions."

According to this model, unconscious impulses to perform a volitional act are open to suppression by the conscious efforts of the subject (sometimes referred to as "free won't").

Libet's experiments suggest to some that unconscious processes in the brain are the true initiator of volitional acts, and free will therefore plays no part in their initiation.

Any composer's volitional acts are conditioned by historically situated habits, routines, beliefs and esthetic assumptions.

Yet his life depends on such knowledge-and only a volitional act of his consciousness, a process of thought, can provide it.

Cartesian theory holds that mental acts determine physical acts and that volitional acts of the body must be caused by volitional acts of the mind.

Reminiscence has been described as "the volitional or non-volitional act or process of recollecting memories of oneself in the past".

The volitional act of giving up one's life to save others also comes up in philosophy or evolutionary psychology when discussing concepts such as altruism and egoism.

Consequently they decided to look for cerebral potentials in man related to volitional acts and to take voluntary movement as their research paradigm.

The courts have long held that a finding of direct infringement requires a "volitional act" by the infringer.