Sentence examples for as to willful from inspiring English sources

In the premodern era, Ms. Neiman explains, evil referred as much to natural catastrophes as to willful acts.

If you know they're disabled, it may be safer to assume overload as opposed to willful misbehavior or anxiety.

Pauline Kael's misunderstandings of "Shoah" are so grotesque as to seem willful.

The payment is not so high that there is really no choice but to buy health insurance; the payment is not limited to willful violations, as penalties for unlawful acts often are; and the payment is collected solely by the IRS through the normal means of taxation.

As for Masters, she proves to be just as willful as Kilcannon.

It is not nearly as willful as rushing (entering a car before riders inside can exit) or as oblivious as stopping (entering a car and lingering at the threshold, while dozens behind you try to get in).

When Hesther bites Rohan in (feigned) self-defense, he responds with delight and admiration ("I never thought I'd find a woman with a spirit as willful as mine!"); the climactic scene involves the use of a horsewhip, applied with an intensity that transcends the purely punitive.

"He's talking in these terms of urgency, especially where the US-Mexico border and Mexican immigration is concerned in a way that is so contradictory with the evidence on the ground as to almost seem as willful misrepresentation," she said.

The level of concern expressed by a counterparty to a transaction indicates that there were questions being raised about whether customer money was properly segregated, another red flag that could be used as evidence to establish willful blindness if charges were pursued against any individuals.

The western press is guilty of a typical Stalinist crime, that of willful forgetfulness as to these events, and others.

A clearance opinion can be relied upon as a defense to 1) willful infringement, or 2) inequitable conduct.