Initially, the commission's general counsel tied the fund-raising methods directly to Mr. Buchanan, finding he "knowingly and willfully" accepted the improper contributions, according to internal investigative reports that the commission made public just last month.
When Dirk returned to town, he said nothing, and the local media willfully accepted his silence.
Mr. Houghton is a former acting curator of the Getty who resigned his post there in 1986 after accusing the museum of willfully accepting illegally excavated antiquities.
It willfully accepts some not-safe-for-work content, including nudity, adult fiction and erotic illustration.
Instead of considering alcoholism as a taboo to be dreaded, we willfully accept it as a part of our day-to-day life.
But, just as in the primaries, he willfully refuses to accept what debates are about.
That difficult reality, for years denied, obscured, willfully ignored or forgotten, is now increasingly accepted here, historians and French officials say, part of a broader reckoning with France's uncomfortable wartime past.
The events, the specific experiences, are important, but there's an awful randomness to them, which can be accepted or denied or, most often, willfully ignored.
John Tierney issued a statement announcing his wife's intention to plead guilty, stating that Patrice accepted "full responsibility for being 'willfully blind' to what her brother was doing".
Leaving, thus, the more-extremist-than-you-can-imagine Golden Dawn party, whose leader recently accepted the political responsibility for the murder of a citizen, as virtually the only parliamentary opposition to the austerity programs (again, not counting the willfully isolated Communist Party of Greece).
"I knowingly, willfully and corruptly agreed to accept and did accept, cash bribes," he said in Federal Court in Brooklyn.
