Sentence examples for wilfully not from inspiring English sources

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"Normally, we are told, it's when the magistrate gets frustrated that someone is wilfully not paying a whole range of fines, not just the licence fee," he said.

England conceded an average of more than 12 penalties a match, prepared to infringe wilfully, not least when they were under pressure in Paris.

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For Goya's portraits can be bizarre, unflattering, wilfully awkward, not to say bewildering.

In the commercial sector, I sometimes think that critics wilfully choose not to understand the challenges we have".

Wilfully or not, many Conservatives therefore construed Mr Blair's Bournemouth attack on "forces of conservatism" as an attack on them.

The temptation is to tut and ask why they didn't play in the first half, say, the way they did in the second, as if they had wilfully chosen not to.

Yet, if anything, flip-flopping on feed-in tariffs and scaldingly negative remarks from the chancellor, George Osborne, and others have, wilfully or not, undermined a whole UK industrial sector just as it could be growing, creating jobs and being a world leader.

Not wilfully either.

Stage curfews are ignored if not wilfully broken.

It was imprecise and potentially, if not wilfully, misleading.

But he was prepared to accept that the finger poked into his face was not wilfully placed there.

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