Sentence examples for wilful decision from inspiring English sources
Of course people accept that sometimes things go wrong but you don't expect this to happen because of a wilful decision made by the company.
The homeostatic condition is maintained by wilful policy decisions and 'nudges' from government (the nervous system), but can be perturbed by various destabilising causes (pathogens) whose damage the law tries to limit through the policing system (the immune system) followed by a system of restorative justice (wound healing).
Critics called the decision "an act of wilful sabotage" and "grotesquely irresponsible".
Under the headline "THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL EVACUATION OF MRS. BEAUMONT: WILFUL NEGLIGENCE," the Newsletter excoriated the doctor's decision to call the lifeboat for Mrs. Beaumont, given that the Barclays had offered to make their helicopter available in emergencies.
The on-field umpires, who had a fine view of the incident, nonetheless asked for help, whereupon Wilson up in the pavilion obviously decided that Stokes's reaction had been wilful – it had to be to justify his decision.
If people in positions of power deliberately suppress or ignore information that is vital to the decisions they're making, that is wilful blindness.
The decision can only have been based on more than wilful stupidity, and that is a hugely depressing thought.
In the early 1980s, anorexia had been seen by the medical community as a deliberate decision by a petulant teenage girl: she was selfish, vain, wilful.
The decision was made, there's nothing I can do but it wasn't wilful whatsoever.
