Sentence examples for wilful attempts from inspiring English sources

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We're proud of the work we do, notwithstanding recent and wilful attempts by some to mischaracterise it".

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Judith Sunderland, lead author of the report, told the Guardian: "There has been a wilful attempt to ignore what is going on.

But a government spokesman derided Labour's figures as "yet another wilful attempt to distract from the fact that their botched 2004 GP contract destroyed the doctor-patient relationship and made it much harder to access care out of hours.

It may have been a wilful attempt to keep expectations at rock bottom but pre-tournament discussion in Albania centred for the most part on the nation's happiness to have reached their first tournament.

Second, implicit in the arguments of many of New Labour's critics is a fundamentally flawed characterisation of the agenda of the past 10 years and a wilful attempt to construe its record as some kind of free market fundamentalist continuation of the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Judge Lucy Koh said there had been "a wilful attempt to propagate... evidence they knew had been excluded" from the case.

Barring Yau and Sixtus Leung in November, the judge said the pair "manifestly refused … to solemnly, sincerely and truly bind themselves" to Hong Kong's laws, citing statements the judge said showed they made "a wilful and deliberate attempt … to insult China".

Haywood, also known as Esra, is charged with wilful, deliberate and premeditated attempted murder, aggravated mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon, a knife.

Broadly speaking, these inconsistencies do not reflect malice or wilful ignorance but people's attempts to make sense of the world they experience through the distorting filters of media representation, popular prejudice and national myths.

Five men and three women had been charged with wilful obstruction of the highway after attempting to block military vehicles from entering the ExCel centre in Docklands, east London, in September.

She is befriended by Suora Zuana, the intelligent and compassionate nun in charge of the infirmary, herself once an unwilling novice; and opposed by Suora Chiara, the wilful and clever abbess, an adroit strategist who is attempting to preserve the convent's faintly permissive autonomy in the midst of the reformist tempest launched by the Council of Trent.

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