My predecessor willfully ignored their objections, I promised a fresh consultation and I am a man of my word.
Or had they willfully ignored it?
It is a distinction that the Bush administration, goaded by immigration extremists, has willfully ignored.
"Instead, Congress willfully ignored the ramifications of its actions, just as it did in repealing Glass-Steagall".
[Racked NY] Cheating on Fire Department exams in 2006 may have been willfully ignored, an assistant fire commissioner said.
Here's my recap: The government willfully ignored commonsense, and manufactured a debate about something obviously illegal.
It is not the magnitude of the incident that makes it so enduring, ugly or willfully ignored.
According to the complaint, they "willfully ignored and were deliberately indifferent to overwhelming evidence of plaintiffs' actual innocence".
The Postal Service finds itself on the brink of financial extinction because for some 15 years postal management willfully ignored this communications revolution.
In Suskind's telling, Geithner, as Treasury secretary, willfully ignored the idea, defying the president and possibly committing "fireable offenses" that were "perilously close to insubordination".
The events, the specific experiences, are important, but there's an awful randomness to them, which can be accepted or denied or, most often, willfully ignored.
