Sentence examples for willful person from inspiring English sources

Nichols described Armstrong as the "most willful person I have ever met".

"I'm a demanding, contentious, strong-minded, willful person," he says.

I am a willful person, charging forward in life, and I approached this job no differently.

"Pumping Iron" presents a fascinating, complex, willful, wild, strange person who was turning himself into exactly that sort of a character, a public figure.

In criminal law, there is a crucial concept called "willful blindness": a person can be convicted of a crime even if he was unaware of certain aspects of the crime in which he was engaged.

One means of establishing intent is through what is known as "willful blindness," that a person deliberately ignored signs of misconduct.

And she ruled that a section that criminalized the "willful failure" of a person in the country illegally to carry federal immigration papers did not pre-empt federal law.

Willful interference with a person's right to travel was the statute relied upon by the Department of Justice, for example, in the 1994 prosecution of the killers of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic scholar stabbed in a religiously-motivated attack.

"If you imagine that addiction is the willful act of an antisocial person who needs to learn his lesson, you ought to lock him up.

Is Wills's blindness willful?

(O.E.D. vs. California penal: "pursuit of game by the method of stealthy approach"; or "a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes").