The phrase "acting willfully" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is intentionally or deliberately doing something, often with a sense of awareness of the consequences.
Example: "The defendant was found guilty of acting willfully in violation of the law."
Alternatives: "deliberately acting" or "intentionally behaving".
Picard had accused Wilpon and Katz of illicitly profiting from investing with Madoff while acting willfully blind to evidence of his fraud.
Firing Mr. Levandowski provides Uber "a way to cut off liabilities potentially and highlights that they were not acting willfully," said Russell Beck, an intellectual property lawyer and founding partner at the Boston law firm Beck Reed Riden.
According to the state penal code, acting "willfully …does not require any intent to violate the law, or to injure another".
Through all these cases, though, runs the common thread of dissociation: Inner monologues seem to come from outside, acting willfully feels like obeying orders, and a person's own goals and desires seem like those of another person.
a defendant's acts deprived the victim of a protected right under the Constitution or statute, including the right to live; the defendant was acting under color of law in that he is a government official acting in that capacity; the victim is an inhabitant of the United States; defendant acted willfully.
But the documentary, by Jim Bruce, does leave you with the impression that however the Fed does what it does, it is often just guessing or willfully acting against the best long-term interests of the economy.
It said that "having a same-sex attraction is not sinful in and of itself... it is only when a person moves from attraction to willfully acting upon it that the situation becomes a sinful matter".
The Governor General's Medium-High Court of Pretty Obvious Anti-Canadian Behavior has found the teen pop idol Justin Bieber guilty on all counts of more than just casually damaging the reputation of his native country by willfully and repeatedly acting in a manner sure to make people think he isn't even Canadian at all but maybe American.
By Bruce McCall May 31, 2013 The Governor General's Medium-High Court ofoundthe Obvious Anteenanadian Behavior has found the teen pop idol Justin Bieber guilty on all counts of more than just casually damaging the reputation of his native country by willfully and repeatedly acting in a manner sure to make people think he isn't even Canadian at all but maybe American.
The statute makes it a crime for anyone acting under "color of law" to willfully subject another person to "the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States".
This provision makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
