Sentence examples for a willful effort to from inspiring English sources

Whether that's a result of inadequate education or evidence of a willful effort to get attention, I'm not sure.

But the April 2006 letter, which had not been previously disclosed, showed they accused development officials of approving the hiring of Galt not in an unwitting oversight but in a willful effort to bypass their warnings.

HP claimed in 2012 that Lynch's management team, which included finance director Sushovan Hussein, had made a "willful" effort to "inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company in order to mislead potential buyers".

ALEXANDER: This is a report issued by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2012 in support of the reauthorization of the 2008 amendments to FISA, and I quote, "Through four years of oversight, the committee has not identified a single case in which a government official engaged in willful effort to circumvent or violate the law".

"It was a willful effort by some company executives to mislead investors and potential buyers," Ms. Whitman said.

It provides a detailed account of his willful efforts to try to make a deal with Hitler and refutes some persistent myths.

We believe we have uncovered extensive evidence of a willful effort on behalf of certain former Autonomy employees to inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company in order to mislead investors and potential buyers.

GEORGIA:  Smokey & the Bandit is a movie featuring actor Burt Reynolds and his willful efforts to deliver 400 cases of beer to Atlanta.

He concluded that "a willful effort" had been involved in the error, rejected the claim of the putative winner, and installed Gamza on the school board.

But what finally torched the Cyclones, broke what had been a willful effort and left them in tears after the game, was Cleaves's alley-oop pass from the top of the key to a body soaring above the baseline.

Their assessment of the Republican Party's strengths echoes observations made by Thomas B. Edsall in his recent book "Building Red America," and their chapters on the rise of the new media and the Bush White House's willful efforts to undermine the mainstream press owe a decided debt to books and articles by writers like Frank Rich, Ken Auletta, Craig Crawford and Eric Boehlert.