Sentence examples for mere negligence from inspiring English sources

In other words, willful blindness is a world of difference from mere negligence or recklessness.

Mr. Levitt found "not mere negligence, but deliberate disregard for the law" in San Diego's pension practices.

On Tuesday, former Conservative foreign secretary Lord Hurd said the way the inquiry was dragging on had gone beyond questions of mere negligence and forgivable delay.

In this case, he suggested the SEC had erred by agreeing to charging Citigroup with mere negligence, given evidence that suggested more serious activities.

"The case before me, in my view, demonstrates action that went beyond mere negligence," arbitrator Steven M. Wolf wrote in a decision released last week.

But, in the judgment of the Senate investigators, all this wrongdoing was too systemic to be a matter of mere negligence.

For under Sykes' strict-liability standard, mere attorney negligence is never excusable.

Whatever the status of their hypothetical welder, petitioners are not charged with mere untargeted negligence.

(c) Petitioners are not charged with mere untargeted negligence, but rather their intentional, and allegedly tortious, actions were expressly aimed at California.

We don't know if it was a matter of lack of time, desire for money, or mere unintentional negligence.

Then the question is whether there was any evidence of negligence, not a mere scintilla, but such as in the absence of any evidence in answer would entitle the plaintiff to a verdict.