| But so powerful did they prove themselves as wealth generators that investors in them soon abandoned any pretence of willfully winding them down. |
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| I would never willfully visit dishonor upon our house, but I will not abandon them. |
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| In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place. |
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| Individuals who willfully refused to comply with Puritan precepts were excluded altogether from the promise of grace. |
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| He was subsequently charged for willfully committing an indecent act in a public place, which carried a sentence of four months in jail. |
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| This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years. |
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| Estate agents who willfully underquote houses going to auction will apparently get big fines with a new investigation. |
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| The Fifth Circuit's approach is almost willfully blind to the reality established by both custom and history. |
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| They masterfully inflamed the crowd's anger by suggesting that city officials were willfully withholding information about the shooting. |
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| On the other hand, a child who refuses to wear a bicycle helmet after repeated warnings is being willfully defiant. |
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| The provisions do not require an offender to have acted willfully in the harming or mistreatment of animals. |
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| Section 67.1 was added in 1999 to make it an offence to willfully obstruct the right of access. |
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| These willfully ignorant, recalcitrant obstructionists are doing the country a tremendous service. |
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| Their playing is willfully steeped in the discomforts of danger and exploration, and their inventions all the more stunning for their studied adversity. |
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| Because poetry is such a marvelous record-keeper, Heaney could pinpoint the very moment he began to willfully represent Ireland in his work. |
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| To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are. |
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| It may be that all acts of responsible citizenship require a certain amount of willfully entered arrogation. |
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| Did he kill her with malice aforethought, willfully, deliberately? |
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| Indeed, few politicians in modern times have been as willfully enduring or as spitefully determined to hang around, wraithlike, as Mugabe. |
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| Plant managers often willfully understate actual capacity so as to be given easily fulfillable production targets. |
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| To insist that extremely violent American entertainments had nothing to do with this is willfully obtuse. |
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| It is such a generation where people commit sins just in the normal course of life even though they don't do it willfully. |
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| But everything in Abbudin feels willfully generic, as if even the tiniest hint of specificity might give offense. |
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| The Plot deftly navigate through jazz, punk, and metal with pinpoint precision, willfully mangling their songs while still retaining a sense of structure. |
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| Lessons learned, it seems, are not taken to heart, or the next generation willfully ignores the hard truths purchased through blood, sweat, and tears by their parents. |
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| The categorical imperative supports active euthanasia since no one would willfully universalize a rule which condemns people to unbearable pain before death. |
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| At best, his administration appeared exceptionally lax, and at worst, it willfully obstructed justice. |
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| Y is by no means a right-wing hawk, but he is willfully blind, deaf and dumb. |
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| Still, I continue to like and value Peter, even if he chooses to willfully misrepresent me and my views. |
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| This recording is deeply, willfully obtuse, enigmatic and difficult. |
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| That Hamann suffers so much neglect, one must concede, is largely the result of the willfully hermetic impenetrability of his most important works. |
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| It will include specific penalties for offences under the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, including tougher penalties for those who willfully impede investigations of wrongdoing. |
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| Instead, in authoritarian and repressive countries where fighting crime is willfully confused with suppressing dissent, a different set of rules must be applied in order to shape political and social development. |
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| Set in a 1960s mental institution, The Ward commits the cardinal sin of willfully cheating viewers for the sake of a final reel twist. |
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| Nothing herein shall be deemed to affect the rights and liabilities of the carrier with regard to any person who has willfully caused damage which resulted in death, wounding, or other bodily injury of a passenger. |
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| At that trial, his prosecutors confronted him with the document mentioned above, one saying that Galileo had been given an official order that, presumably, he had willfully disobeyed. |
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| Apart from the possibility of deliberate action by right-wing political leaders willfully to squelch the democratization process, the transition may also be derailed by the intractability of the economic problem. |
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| If the answers to the questions are willfully evasive or knowingly untrue, the talesman, when accepted, is a juror in name only. |
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| As all before them they willfully extirpated: The Back of the Book and the Front and the Middle, Until all that was left was digital piddle, And Thought and Word lay dead and cold. |
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| Or, if the gods are not willfully involved through jealousy or spite, they sit idly by while an individual wrecks himself through passion or heedlessness. |
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| This means that not only does a culpable person have to have physically committed the act in question, but the person must also have committed the act intentionally and willfully. |
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| In such a situation, the motive may become subjective evidence that the accused did not intend, but was reckless or willfully blind. |
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| Further, the Commission Member noted there was no indication of the intent necessary to support a finding that the Military Police member willfully or negligently made a false statement on an official document. |
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| We will not willfully disclose individually identifiable information about our customers to any third party without first receiving that user's permission. |
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| The Federal President of Germany can be impeached both by the Bundestag and by the Bundesrat for willfully violating Federal law. |
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| The anti-working-class nature of this petit-bourgeois group has been made clear to all but the willfully blind by its forcible seizure of control over the labor movement and its suppression of all opposition parties. |
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| Plagiarism is a willfully false attribution of authorship to oneself, or can be a use of another's text without any or with insufficient acknowledgement of source. |
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| It was alleged that in some cases the violations were due to negligence, while in others the violations were knowingly and willfully committed by refinery officials. |
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| In a per curium opinion, the majority concluded Schenck had willfully violated the stipulated provisions of the Code in a manner which warranted the penalty assessed. |
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| Muntazir Rahmat Allah sits in an armchair to the left of this rock while five of his neighbors sit willfully and vexedly on the right side of it on a mastaba, a wooden bench. |
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| While people are said to retain will, in that they willfully sin, they are unable not to sin because of the corruption of their nature due to original sin. |
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| Willfully to misinterpret a text is akin to attributing an action to the author that he did not commit. |
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