Sentence examples for wilfully refused from inspiring English sources
Pierre de Fermat was a 17th century judge and amateur mathematician who wilfully refused to publish his proofs.
There's a sustaining myth, if you like, among people that there are cupboardfuls of brilliant ideas that the BBC and Channel 4 have wilfully refused to make.
Rather, the four loosely interrelated tales about London lives between Kilburn and Primrose Hill stubbornly, almost wilfully, refused to offer pat lessons about integration; like real life, which is messy, shonky, determinedly unglib and ever surprising.
At a family court hearing in London this week, Judge Yvonne Gibson approved the nullification, requested by Ms Stewart, on the grounds that Mr Knowles had "wilfully" refused to consummate the marriage and she would "find it intolerable to live with him".
A spokesman for the ONS, which runs the census in England and Wales, said: "Where there is evidence that householders have wilfully refused to complete a census form, the evidence has been presented to the Crown Prosecution Service, which then decides if a prosecution will go ahead".
Harriet Wistrich, of the law firm Birnberg Peirce & Partners, said: "The police have been on notice of this case for three and a half years and until this judgment, they have wilfully refused to engage in any meaningful way with the most serious allegations put to them.
The law exists to deal with people who wilfully refuse to decrypt computer evidence.
I am interested in vindicating the authority of this court, which I feel must be vindicated when anyone wilfully refuses to obey a lawful order of the court.
In the London Review of Books, Ronan Bennett complained, "To set up a mystery and then wilfully refuse to explain it is to frustrate and irritate the reader".
"What is difficult about sitting on plush seats and listening to music and singing?" thunders Carey, wilfully refusing to look at the actual works.
Wilfully refusing the counsel of librarians is painful to me, especially as I love the book – Scout is one of the most winning narrators I've ever encountered – but I still can't finish it.
