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He and other environmental advocates say the voluntary deals struck by major water agencies would be disastrous for threatened and endangered fish, including salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The Port Glasgow firm currently employs 283 staff, including 34 apprentices - but says it expects to shed 70 posts through a voluntary redundancy process.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

In response to cases of law enforcement officers across the country improperly accessing Flock for personal reasons, the company rolled out a voluntary audit tool in April.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The federal plan also calls for potential reductions in releases from Powell and voluntary conservation measures by upper basin states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

He said it was voluntary, but we weren't about to turn it down.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

I always tell our organist to play soft voluntaries and pull out his sweetest stops, so that he may make music which will creep into the spirit and rouse all its capacities for worship.

From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood

It was Sadie who disapproved of voluntaries and Lorelei?

From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin

I thought the service would never end, or the organist's voluntaries, or the preacher's homily.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray

Her works for that134 instrument include two grand voluntaries, a half-dozen excellent pedal fugues, eight slow movements, and many other pieces.

From Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson