by choice

Obviously, it’s hard to glean the timetable when the experience is edited down, but it seemed like you revealed your race pretty early on and it wasn’t exactly by choice.

He has the only squad in Spain's top flight with six slots empty - and not by choice, because he would prefer a deeper, more competitive group.

Orange County exalts the suburb, something that L.A. has by choice and chance obliterated.

It was President Reagan who once said that the country had always had a problem, “even in the best of times,” with “the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”

The statement added Webb was "cruel by choice" and had "no turmoil while torturing me".