Sentence examples for could be ignorant from inspiring English sources

When Treasury officials said they needed another year of corporate tax returns to analyze the nature of abusive tax avoidance, Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida, asserted that he was astonished the "Treasury could be ignorant" of how companies cheat.

Several former tax assessors who left the city in the early 1990's out of frustration with the apparent corruption said that they found it hard to believe that so many owners could be ignorant of what was going on.

While the margin-for-error principle discussed in Williamson (1994) might serve to explain how we could be ignorant of the postulated sharp boundaries were they to exist, it might be thought that since our use of vague terms does not draw sharp boundaries they could not possess them given the generally accepted connection between meaning and use.

"It's almost unbelievable, the story," Ricciarelli says of the notion that so many Germans could be ignorant of what happened.

But some people could be ignorant and send offline messages when you're not going to be on.

How could he be ignorant of what strangulation does to the human body, and what it communicates to the victim?

He said of the discovery "How could I be ignorant of this painter whose knowledge and love of Chinese painting is so obvious?

Pressed by "New Day" host Chris Cuomo on how he, an immigration activist, could possibly be ignorant of the interior check, Vargas responded, "I did not anticipate it...

Another child, by contrast, could simply be ignorant of or unable to comprehend the facts of reproduction.

For example, one who may be smart at making money could conversely be ignorant about social justice.

As a reasonable human being, I maintain nobody could be that ignorant or blind, unless it was intentional.