"You can't ask for people of higher character who go in harms way and volunteer to do so, " he said.
Accountants can volunteer to do tax work for nonprofits, for instance.
Others take a tax-deductible working vacation in which they volunteer to do work under the sponsorship of a university or other tax-exempt group.
It is also unappealing to pass laws telling adults that they are not allowed to volunteer to do overtime, even if they want the extra money and their companies would welcome it.
And this is part of the process, as I said yesterday, that isn't always comfortable, that isn't what I think candidates leap up and volunteer to do -- here, look at all of my financial records.
In a nation of strictly self-interested individuals, the honest among us would never volunteer to do these jobs, the dishonest would get all of them, and living in the United States would be like living in a Third World dictatorship.
Volunteer to do the hard thing.
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As soon as I felt comfortable enough to chat casually with the attorneys whose correspondence and briefs I typed, I asked them whether I could volunteer to do legal research for them on my lunch hour, after work, or on the weekends.
Do you plan to work in retirement or do volunteer work to save the world?
Do volunteer to work extra shifts or to put in time during off hours.
What does a small amount of paid time off to do volunteer work mean for an employee?
All had to do volunteer work, improve their school attendance or the like.
After two-and-a-half years at Do Something, employees can take a month-long paid sabbatical to do volunteer work if they commit to another year.
Woodruff, a grandfather who said he loves babies, wanted to do some volunteer work after he retired.
What you couldn't do is volunteer to rush transplant organs to faraway hospitals, because if you did, you'd only arrive with coolers full of gazpacho.
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Why do we volunteer to spend our time in the same way as assembly-line journalists who are being jack-hammered into a state of frantic fatigue?
All had to do things like volunteer work or improve their school attendance.
It will allow citizens to organise themselves around snow-clearing activities, adopt a stretch of pavement to clear, offer to share shovels and snowblowers, or even volunteer to clear snow for people who cannot do so themselves.
"Someone who is paid to do campaign work is not a volunteer, " he said.
In the NHS, patients volunteer to take part in clinical research, and they do so for a whole number of reasons.
Studies of norovirus epidemics and human volunteer experiments (yes, there really are people willing to do this) showed that some individuals had natural resistance and this appeared to run in families - it was inherited.
Should Americans enlist in the armed forces, join the foreign service, pay more taxes, do volunteer work, study foreign languages, travel to Muslim countries?
Volunteer opportunities and tracking solutions need to be accessible to everyone and so do ways to share those opportunities and experiences with other potential volunteers.
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Perhaps that tranformation will manifest itself, among other ways, by precipitating the collapse of the All-Volunteer Force, as many of those who are currently serving decline to do so, and fewer and fewer new, high-quality recruits enlist.
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We just ask that, if there's any way possible, tell the people when they get here to be patient--we're all doing all that we can--and be ready to volunteer to help us get this stuff off the trucks 'cause we can't do crowd control and get the stuff off the trucks as well.
If you want to do good for society but your job does not offer that opportunity, volunteer or give back outside of work.
If you vote to do so, I believe you will inflict significant damage on the All-Volunteer Force, and that you stand to abdicate unwittingly your constitutional authorities and responsibilities in matters of governance of the armed services.
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We do see multitudes of youth taking part in causes, such as leaving school and work to volunteer in aid of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims, or volunteering to support the 2008 Beijing Olympics or the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Volunteer caretakers, who need to be familiar with living in the bush, managing a remote reserve and knowing what to do if there is an emergency, are required to live in the park for about a month at a time, reporting on bush fires and recording data taken from cameras at the wombat watering stations.
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