Sentence examples for wilful failure from inspiring English sources

This ranges from the wilful failure to keep records, the absence of accountability, the withholding of intelligence and evidence, through to the extreme of agents being involved in murder.

He adds: "Prince William and Catherine Middleton can't help falling into a trap formed of the hysteria of counter-decline and a wilful failure to quit a darkening stage".

Everything went speedily and well and the movie brought professional fame and critical respect to both, though due to a wilful failure by United Artists to publicise the film, financial success did not come to Kubrick until Spartacus.

Snipes was also indicted on six counts of wilful failure to file a tax return from 1999 to 2004, a period in which he signed two contracts for more than $10m on sequels in the Blade trilogy.

"But what was much more serious - the elephant in the room, so to speak - was Assange's wilful failure to say anything about the actual reason that the Swedish police want to question him".

At this point, faced with Professor Chomsky's repeated and apparently wilful failure to grasp the simple points I was making or answer the simple questions I was asking, I almost lost the will to live.

It was all a stunning - in fact, wilful - failure of strategic intelligence in Washington and it left the military in Iraq swinging in the insurgent wind that followed.

The report did, however, accuse successive governments of "a wilful and abject failure" to provide guidelines on how agents should be handled within the law a criticism that will resonate today in police forces in England whose undercover agents have got up to no good.Much has changed in Northern Ireland since 1989.

Mr Hakin added: "Rebecca's death was a direct consequence of a prolonged course of wilful neglect, which involved a failure to provide an adequate supply of sufficiently nutritious food and denial of access to medical aid.

These failures sometimes reflect our wilful inattention to the problems of unsustainability, which we as scientists helped to create, plus generous dashes of arrogance, entitlement and ignorance of institutional missions that do not directly benefit us.

The scandal resulted from a "failure of leadership" and the wilful actions of a small group of soldiers.Alas for Mr Rumsfeld, there is plenty of other evidence that abuse was widespread.