Sentence examples for by wilfully from inspiring English sources

For Eilenberger, Guardiola is betraying his intelligence by wilfully ignoring the issues around the Gulf state.

Sicko made a persuasive case for socialised medicine in America, but rather undermined its own cause by wilfully misinterpreting the healthcare systems in other countries.

The District Court read the indictment as alleging that Knox violated § 1001 'by wilfully and knowingly making a false statement' on the forms, and it was on the basis of this construction that the court dismissed Counts Five and Six.

When the supreme court of Pakistan convicted prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday "for contempt of court by wilfully flouting" the court's directions, it dealt a blow to Pakistan's already shaky democracy.

The boys wear a bizarre ensemble of kilts, frilly shirts and feathered headgear; by wilfully decontextualising them from the ritual, Mthethwa draws a delicate femininity out of them, enabling them to play with gender in a way that would be impossible in their everyday lives.

The Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs, long considered a shrewd winner from the financial crisis, was slapped with potentially devastating fraud charges todayas US regulators accused the firm of fiddling investors out of more than $1bn£640m0m) by wilfully mis-marketing toxic sub-prime mortgage-related securities.

He said the trial would take place in three stages - liability, damages, and whether the patent was infringed by Apple wilfully, which could lead to enhanced penalties.

They all share a certain combination of modernity and imperialism – the longing for a "workshop of the world" in a country dominated by a wilfully unproductive rentier capitalism.

Reynolds, though, shunned pop and abstract expressionism alike, opting instead for a style that seemed not just out-of-date but, by then, wilfully out of fashion.

The rich world's politicians tend to talk of migrants being "exploited" or "victimised" by smugglers, wilfully confusing them with the traffickers who buy and sell women and children in the sex trade.

In 1917, he was one of the founders of New York Dada, the Manhattan branch of the international subversive movement that protested against the first world war by making wilfully broken, ironic, aggressively playful art.