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It implies he has spoken directly to the object of his desire, and has wilfully been ignored.
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Apple has been able to protect its patents - the outcome is that Samsung has wilfully infringed them, been caught doing it by the jury and therefore supposedly punished for doing so.
It is as though he has wilfully invented ways of being inarticulate.
What the BBC have wilfully ignored is whether any other country in Europe is actually any better.
Marlborough has wilfully created widows and orphans (that's why none follow his procession) and when "the last trump" sounds, he will be summoned to eternal damnation.
Conservative she may be, but Ms. Keaton has wilfully nurtured a maverick streak by forging a fashion identity that is two parts WASP and one part whimsy.
In the political realm, we have a major political party which apparently decided its only goal is to win the next election -- and has wilfully triggered one budget crisis after another towards that end.
All the living aroused my ire, as it dawned on me that in our modern, secular and avowedly inclusive society, we have wilfully allowed the dead to be so gagged.
If a company is judged to have "wilfully" violated intellectual property in the face of requests to cease, damages can be three times as high.
It was also found to have wilfully failed to report the pollution of the river, which was a source of drinking water, fishing and irrigation for local communities.
Ultimately, it's hard not to feel that those doing the striking either hadn't seen the show or had wilfully missed the point – the character isn't ridiculing Gandhi so much as sending up high-school archetypes – but MTV decided they didn't need the hassle for a series that wasn't exactly raking in the viewers, and promptly cancelled it.
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