Sentence examples for willfully increased from inspiring English sources

"You have a mayor who says that pension costs are unsustainable, that they will bankrupt the city, who has willfully increased the city's pension liabilities," said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute who focuses on New York City's finances.

They demonstrated that the current density power ratio increased over multiple neurofeedback sessions and that subjects could willfully increase that ratio.

The CBO study also made clear that December's tax cut agreement between Obama and the Republican opposition willfully and deliberately increased the budget deficit sharply.

Support for this approach has come from Rellecke et al. (2012), who observed that LPC amplitudes increased when participants willfully focused their attention on affective facial stimuli, indicating individuals' voluntary control over higher-cognitive emotion processing.

Mr. McCain's measure would also increase, to $15 million from $800,000, the civil fines that the government may impose on automakers that willfully neglect to tell the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about safety defects.

Those lawsuits accused the defendants of willfully turning a blind eye to evidence that Mr. Madoff was operating a fraud, thereby allowing it to continue and increasing the financial destruction it caused.

The trustee's lawsuits accused the defendant banks of willfully turning a blind eye to evidence that Mr. Madoff was operating a fraud, thereby allowing his scheme to continue and increasing the financial destruction it caused.

Ms. Nord opposes provisions that would increase the maximum penalties for safety violations and make it easier for the government to make public reports of faulty products, protect industry whistle-blowers and prosecute executives of companies that willfully violate laws.

Senator Jon Corzine, Democrat of New Jersey, circulated a letter to other senators last month seeking support for a proposed Wrongful Death Accountability Act, which would increase to 10 years from 6 months the maximum criminal penalty for employers who cause the death of a worker by willfully violating safety laws.

The Republicans have two options:  Accept a deal that includes a set of fair tax increases on millionaires and billionaires, or willfully violate the Constitution and force the United States to default on its debt for the first time in history.

But it has willfully overspent.