Sentence examples for were willful from inspiring English sources

Employers rarely serve jail time when workers die, even when the evidence of misconduct is strong and when federal authorities conclude that the violations were "willful".

At some point, he began to look more rigorously into the idea of meaninglessness, and to write songs that were willful participants in their own fragmentation.

Under federal law they were entitled to $750 to $30,000 for each infringement, but the jury was permitted to raise that to as much as $150,000 a track if it found the infringements were willful.

In fact, she said the evidence suggests that Napster activities could have resulted in "millions of acts of unauthorized copying," and that if the actions of Napster were "willful" the company's hands are "abundantly dirty".

"The program works for people who were willful, who structured their transactions, who hid the existence of the accounts or knew about the rules and didn't file — they shouldn't opt out because the willful penalties are quite severe," said Jim Mastracchio, co-chairman of the tax controversy practice at Baker Hostetler, a law firm in Washington.

sided with the world’s biggest health-care company, finding Abbott’s actions were willful.

I learned so much about surrender, not being in charge and more importantly the difference between being willful and willing.

Yet for Verizon to believe it will have an easy path is "willful optimism," Mr. Wieser said.

It can be willful.

Putting it kindly, that's willful ignorance.

Used to being obeyed, she is willful.