Sentence examples for willfully in from inspiring English sources

Federal prosecutors could also bring a criminal case for violating these same provisions, but they must show a higher level of intent – that a defendant acted "willfully" in violating the law.

Accidents and random events plague her characters, and many of them, like Jane here, are oddly passive, drifting or going with the flow, trying to live willfully in the present, as if past choices and mistakes never piled up.

On the train to the city, I had to admit to myself that I'd started the argument willfully, in a contrary spirit and with some sense of its eroticism.

But for whatever reason I went willfully in exactly the opposite direction.

Accordingly, McAndrew's works are willfully in the present, with no hint of an imagined future and nothing that urges us to try to conjure their past.

Hatch has proposed legislation to provide a default mens rea — literally, "guilty mind" — standard to govern cases in which a particular statute doesn't spell out the required state of mind: The defendant would have to have engaged in a criminal act "willfully" in order to be prosecuted.

He sang long, echoey tones in a microphone, getting willfully lost in the larger sound.

Only at the price of inconsistency, she argues, because scientific determinism is not compatible with belief in a deity who can willfully intervene in the world.

What these groups willfully ignore, in spite of touting inclusivity in their mission statements, is that a vast number of women cannot or simply choose not to breastfeed.

But in a corporation where an environment hostile to women is willfully perpetuated in everything from discouraging women from applying for positions in departments like sporting goods or hardware to holding meetings at strip clubs, the fact that store managers have discretion just means that their boy's-club biases, which are consistently rewarded and reinforced, have free rein.

Block acted "maliciously, willfully and in bad faith," Judge Jackson found in a 45-page ruling, which he signed on Friday but did not issue until Monday.