"But forgiveness assumes that one has made a mistake; no matter how much I regret with a passion not being able to sing at the Met on this occasion, catching the flu was certainly not a willful mistake I made".
Though Mr. Bernanke vowed that the Fed would never repeat its dreadful mistakes of willful inaction during the Depression, Mr. Krugman accused him last year of doing just that, being intimidated into an "abdication" by irate Republicans.
"These guys could be the worst cops in the world, but if this was just a terrible mistake instead of willful misconduct, then it's not a federal crime".
His definition suggests a deliberate, willful transgression, not an honest mistake.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will today, once again, stand before the authors of Dodd-Frank and attempt to make the case for why a $2 billion trading loss was a stupid mistake, not a willful breach of at least the intent of the law.
Fred Abrahams, a special adviser for Human Rights Watch, said the report was consistent with the alliance's refusal to acknowledge clear mistakes, and revealed a "willful decision not to look at civilian casualties".
First elected in 1933, he was hailed as the city's savior during an economic crisis, and then he gradually became more willful and blind to his own mistakes.
Is Wills's blindness willful?
Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.
He responded, "We had no willful act to avoid sanctions; you know, mistakes are made — clerical errors — and we talked about last year a number of transactions which clearly were clerical errors or mistakes that were made".
