Sentence examples for willful control from inspiring English sources

Mr. Maazel is often accused of "micro-managing" his interpretations, as if the wishes of the composers were contravened and the natural ability of the players suppressed by willful control from the podium.

He paid penance by trying to control 26 willful baseball owners as the sport's commissioner, before resuming his real life in business.

The root cause of the financial crisis is governmental: the removal of regulations, the willful ceding of market control, the disappearance of morality from capitalism's operation, the Reagan-founded faith in the free market.

If machines that were approaching human general intelligence were to be endowed with consciousness, would this potentially make them more willful and less easily controlled by their human creators?

If your moon is in Leo, you might view your mother as a controlling and willful Queen of Hearts.

Some of the most common reasons an IOI may report to deny the FFL include failure to comply with state or local law (such as zoning ordinances for your business), evidence of previous willful violations of the Gun Control Act of 1968, or evidence of willful falsification on the submitted application.[11].[11]

Most of these "turkeys" share a grand scale — they're mighty works that took great efforts and great funds to realize, and that were victimized by advance reports about their directors' out-of-control spending and willful behavior.

Her first husband, she tells us, called it "willful distancing, an innocence out of control...

Is Wills's blindness willful?

Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.

Whether Jean Racine's Jansenist upbringing determined his view of a human nature controlled by perverse and willful passions or whether his knowledge of Greek tragedy explains the fatalism of his own plays is a question that cannot be answered.