Sentence examples for for wilful from inspiring English sources

The sitting MP, Lord Watson, had resigned following his conviction for wilful fire-raising while drunk at an Edinburgh hotel.

Larger firms are vexed that changes are imposed with short notice and the punishments for non-compliance can be similar to those for wilful fraud.

Chief executives and chief financial officers in America's biggest companies have had to swear to their accounts' veracity, under pain of imprisonment for wilful misrepresentation.

But it shrewdly exploited the warning: "In a culture that emphasised individual responsibility, smokers would bear the blame for wilful risk-taking," notes Mr Brandt.

Stratulis says the wider political debate, such as moves to jail social workers who have fallen down in the job for "wilful neglect", don't help either.

Holmwood was issued with a field court attendance notice for wilful and obscene exposure and later taken to Auburn hospital, where, it was reported, he was sedated.

The Wilde that emerges is a multifaceted character: one who can either be admired for his uncompromising moral integrity, or pitied for his wilful capacity for self-destruction.

Johnson fought on into middle age, unrepentant, a proud, often arrogant man once feared for his fighting skills but reviled all his life for his wilful disregard for the racially bent mores of the day.

For the older reader, of course, Bruno's innocence comes to stand for the wilful refusal of all adult Germans to see what was going on under their noses in the first half of the 1940s.

And millions of workers are paying the price for their wilful amnesia.

She'd lost her appetite for his wilful, self-imposed martyrdom.