Sentence examples for knowingly and willingly from inspiring English sources

"knowingly and willingly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person's actions, especially in a legal context. For example, "The accused signed the contract knowingly and willingly."

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Perhaps because of this confusion, the prosecution was very clear in its arguments that the defendant knowingly and willingly aligned himself with bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

Sanchez's oldest brother, Nick, recently said that Mark fully understood that pressure, particularly in a demanding city like New York, and accepted it "knowingly and willingly".

A  Labour source said the scheme should have been used only to sign up members "legitimately, knowingly and willingly with no conditions attached".

They declined to detail the specific reasons for involving the police but indicated that members recruited via a - now axed - scheme allowing unions to pay fees for a short initial period "must be signed up legitimately, knowingly and willingly.

"I will insist to my dying days that he never knowingly and willingly transferred any priest to any other parish where he intentionally thought that that priest would continue to commit clergy sexual abuse," Father Hennessey said.

Spotify is being sued for at least $150m by a collective of musicians who allege that the streaming site has knowingly and willingly reproduced and distributed their music without permission, Billboard reports.

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In this hourlong one-woman monologue Jocasta (Gabriele Schafer) sleeps with her son knowingly, willingly and graphically (language-wise, that is).

It glows with the moral indignation that was at the heart of the Romantic view of history: human feeling for the individual caught up, not always knowingly or willingly, in the march of world events.

Any successful prosecution would require evidence that someone "knowingly or willingly" held onto classified data, handled in it a "grossly negligent" way or deliberately passed it to someone not entitled to see it – all tests it is hard to see applying in her case.

"These are decisions that should be made consciously and willingly".

And she stopped crying and willingly followed me to school".

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