Sentence examples for willful attempt from inspiring English sources

The celebration was a willful attempt at disregarding such questions.

Mr. Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian citizen, was charged in a federal criminal complaint on Saturday with the willful attempt to destroy an aircraft with an explosive device.

"This was a knowing, willful attempt to corrupt the electoral system," said Daniel Cort, an assistant Manhattan district attorney, in his closing statement.

Others fought vigorously against the encroaching spirit of regulation, frequently charging the moralizers with hypocrisy: a willful attempt to suppress the natural — and particularly English — instincts for individual liberty.

They represented a willful attempt to exhort and accommodate both the aspirations and troubles of their turbulent times — aspirations and troubles that especially affected the central business districts and inner cities in which they were often built.

Others fought vigorously against the encroaching spirit of regulation, frequently charging the moralizers with hypocrisy: a willful attempt to suppress the natural and particularly English instincts for individual liberty.

In 1953 petitioners were convicted after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois of willful attempted evasion of federal income taxes of the Shotwell Manufacturing Company for the years 1945 and 1946.

The story of Agrippina's willful attempts to get her husband, the Roman emperor Claudius, to name Nero, her son from a previous marriage, as heir, is presented in this updated staging with a wit and visual imagination that match the satirical tone of the opera.

Until Susan's sustained effort moved her beyond her willful attempts to manipulate the clay and control the wheel.

Leonard Hall Jr., 21, and Marcus Denson, 18, alleged members of the Kitchen Crips gang, each face one count of murder for the killing of Aaron Shannon Jr. and two counts of willful attempted murder for shooting his uncle and grandfather.

After careful review of all the responses and discussions with our editorial board members, I am confident that there were no willful attempts to hide any competing financial interests.