Sentence examples for willful effort from inspiring English sources

"It was a willful effort by some company executives to mislead investors and potential buyers," Ms. Whitman said.

Whether that's a result of inadequate education or evidence of a willful effort to get attention, I'm not sure.

He concluded that "a willful effort" had been involved in the error, rejected the claim of the putative winner, and installed Gamza on the school board.

We believe we have uncovered extensive evidence of a willful effort on behalf of certain former Autonomy employees to inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company in order to mislead investors and potential buyers.

But the April 2006 letter, which had not been previously disclosed, showed they accused development officials of approving the hiring of Galt not in an unwitting oversight but in a willful effort to bypass their warnings.

But what finally torched the Cyclones, broke what had been a willful effort and left them in tears after the game, was Cleaves's alley-oop pass from the top of the key to a body soaring above the baseline.

It provides a detailed account of his willful efforts to try to make a deal with Hitler and refutes some persistent myths.

Their assessment of the Republican Party's strengths echoes observations made by Thomas B. Edsall in his recent book "Building Red America," and their chapters on the rise of the new media and the Bush White House's willful efforts to undermine the mainstream press owe a decided debt to books and articles by writers like Frank Rich, Ken Auletta, Craig Crawford and Eric Boehlert.

GEORGIA:  Smokey & the Bandit is a movie featuring actor Burt Reynolds and his willful efforts to deliver 400 cases of beer to Atlanta.

Beyond the atrocious physical abuse of detainees, the report details the agency's incompetence -- it doesn't know how many people it detained -- and its willful efforts to hide its misdeeds by lying to the president and Congress and maintaining a disinformation campaign with the media.

This is part of a world view in which homosexuality is a matter of volition and possibly a product of a willful, covert effort to subvert traditional values.