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"wilful" Definitions
  1. [usually before noun] (formal, disapproving or law) (of a bad or harmful action) done deliberately, although the person doing it knows that it is wrong
  2. determined to do what you want; not caring about what other people want synonym headstrong
"wilful" Synonyms
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Relying on them for our "immune response" is wilful negligence.
A failure to do so, at first glance, suggests wilful neglect.
After Khaligi's claims, Simmons wrote a statement denying any wilful wrongdoing.
The jury, however, did not find Huawei's misappropriation "wilful and malicious".
The president has called them "wilful partners in treason against the nation".
That too was met with doubt, silence, wilful ignorance, and even contempt.
International alliances weaken from confusion and neglect, as much as wilful demolition.
The boy is naturally clever—and wilful—with ideas of his own.
Stanton said a number of governments had committed "wilful" violations of sanctions.
Either through ignorance or wilful avoidance, many doctors fail to make the diagnosis.
There are bigger penalties for criminal or wilful violations of the ITAR rules.
Wilful and negligent violations of the Swiss rules could result in criminal charges.
The move is expected to prevent wilful defaulters and promoters from buying stressed assets.
It also suggested that banks make public the names of top 30 "wilful defaulters".
Some companies showed "wilful misunderstanding" of the aims of the legislation, the report said.
Their zealousness and their wilful misreading of history notwithstanding, neo-Maoists have remained stubbornly influential.
The court found, however, "neither damage, unjust enrichment nor wilful and malicious conduct by Huawei".
First, because the ignorance, wilful or otherwise, many Republicans display on global warming is not dissipating.
For wilful men are theyWho tax'd our cake, and took our cake,To throw our cake away.
"This is a blatant, wilful and international violation of our trademarks by Samsung," a Swatch spokesman said.
"For the campaign finance violation to be criminal, prosecutors would have to prove a wilful violation," Hasen said.
Vienna accuses them of fraud and wilful deception in connection with its $2 billion Eurofighter order in 2003.
Wilful, as well as negligent, violations of the Swiss requirements could result in criminal charges and even jail.
It's not escapism and it's sure as hell not wilful detachment, but it might be all we've got.
This wilful blindness to dysfunction in our market system is what is worrying about the corporate tax debate.
But "knowing and wilful violations" of campaign-finance laws are felonies, punishable by up to five years in prison.
Mr O'Rourke is an undistinguished Democratic front-runner and his sketchiness on large areas of policy seems almost wilful.
"Wilful defaulters" have strained Bangladesh's banks in the past three years, even as the economy has seen speedy growth.
Prosecutors accused the officer of wilful murder and abuse of authority; he is under house arrest while they investigate.
Vienna accuses the consortium of fraud and wilful deception over the 2003 order for the warplanes, charges it denies.
Under Indian law, wilful defaulters are classified as firms or individuals who own large businesses and deliberately avoid repayments.
Austria is also suing Airbus and the Eurofighter consortium, alleging wilful deception and fraud linked to the order in 2003.
If convicted of wilful violation, offenders face a fine up to $1 million, or 20 years in jail, or both.
Wilful as well as negligent violations of the Swiss ban could result in criminal charges, according to the Swiss proposal.
Public-sector banks filed 1,475 police complaints against wilful defaulters in the last three financial years, the finance minister added.
"If the U.S. continues to be wilful, countries around the world will only harden their resolve to hit back," Hua said.
Issa has been charged with "wilful, deliberate and premeditated murder," according to a statement from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Mr Zuckerberg may use less profane language today, but many feel he has not yet outgrown his wilful disregard for users' privacy.
The deaths could constitute wilful killings in the context of an occupation, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Zeid said.
Lord Macpherson, a former permanent secretary to the Treasury, tweeted that, with other departures, it was a "wilful & total destruction of EU expertise".
But the atmosphere in India is febrile when it comes to "wilful defaulters", those who could but won't make good on their debt.
At the least, many of these reforms imply a wilful failure to understand the constraints of poverty, especially the rural, poorly educated sort.
Vonovia shot back, saying Deutsche Wohnen's move was "a wilful attempt to irritate the market in an effort to frustrate Vonovia's attractive offer".
Macpherson said Rogers was a "huge loss" and he couldn't understand the "wilful and total destruction of EU expertise" in the civil service.
Wilful defaulters are not sanctioned any additional facilities by banks or financial institutions, and they are debarred from launching ventures for five years.
It is "emblematic" of the "wilful disregard of the wishes of traditional owners", argues Mick Gooda, a former member of the Human Rights Commission.
The court sentenced her husband to nine years in jail on various counts including wilful injury, rejecting charges that he attempted to kill her.
Mallya, who had billed himself as the "King of Good Times" living an extravagant life, has been called a 'wilful' defaulter by some banks.
Mallya, who had billed himself as the "King of Good Times" living an extravagant life, has been called a wilful defaulter by some banks.
The government has debarred wilful defaulters and companies with wayward borrowers from accessing capital markets to raise funds or participate in insolvency resolution process.
PA) and the Eurofighter consortium on Thursday, alleging wilful deception and fraud linked to a near 2 billion euro ($2.1 billion) jet order in 2003.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya's UB Holdings fell as much as 13.4 percent, after Punjab National Bank declared the company as a "wilful defaulter" on Tuesday.
Ms Garza: I'll be honest, it used to really bother me because it could not be further from the truth and it feels like wilful ignorance.
One stated purpose of the law was to "remove uncertainty around the ill-treatment of wild animals by targeting acts of wilful or reckless ill-treatment."
" On Twitter, Nicholas MacPherson, a former senior civil servant at the British Treasury, described the departure as part of a "wilful & total destruction of E.U. expertise.
NEW DELHI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - India has amended the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code to prevent wilful defaulters from bidding for stressed assets, the finance ministry said on Thursday.
There is no one quite like her, no one to whom she could be compared, such is her rootedness in her own hugely eccentric and wilful Moore-ishness.
Pushed on his failure to increase police numbers back in 2013, Boris claimed that any suggestion he had actually promised 1,000 additional police officers was a "wilful misconstruction".
"This @Alitalia video showcasing a silent blackfaced 'Obama' is reprehensive on so many levels: racism, extreme provincialism, wilful ignorance of facts, lack of historic knowledge," one user tweeted.
Marien cited Article 12 of the International Cycling Union (UCI) rules, which says any rider making a wilful obstruction "against one of the 1st 10 riders placed" faces elimination.
" Wrote another Twitter user, "this @Alitalia video showcasing a silent blackfaced "Obama" is reprehensive on so many levels: racism, extreme provincialism, wilful ignorance of facts, lack of historic knowledge.
But now the paper is calling Mr Gou a domineering, wilful "warlord of business" with close ties to China who it says has antagonised Sharp's management with its tactics.
And the affidavits we'd have to prepare — so many that we had a template — to defeat a finding of "wilful failure to register" which would trigger an automatic denial.
The charges laid against him stand at one count of attempted, wilful, deliberate and premeditated murder, one count of aggravated mayhem, and one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
Two decades in advance, he perfectly diagnoses the present paralysis of information exchange that has been brought on by the pollution of discourse with varieties of wilful and inadvertent misinformation.
PA and the Eurofighter consortium to U.S. and British courts, alleging wilful deception and fraud linked to its 1003 order for jet fighters worth nearly 2 billion euro ($2.1 billion).
"The prime minister's current position – that we must leave the single market regardless of the consequences – is an act of wilful economic vandalism," Sturgeon will tell the Europa Institute in Edinburgh.
In some cases, that ignorance was wilful—the result of a temptation to look away from a painful and costly truth—but in others, it was the product of simple negligence.
Missouri's constitution says elected officials can be impeached for "crimes, misconduct, habitual drunkenness, wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency, or any offence involving moral turpitude or oppression in office".
So, how, when then-unknown Texans Oceans of Slumber released their cover of the song in March 2015, did they manage to make it sound just so uplifting and almost wilful.
If rock is meant to be defiant and wilful and incendiary and full of doing whatever the fuck you like, that sounds a lot like what The Spook School are doing.
Mrs Obama, by contrast, is a wary campaigner, easily stung by the wilful distortions of the right-wing press, who called her "Obama's Baby Mama" and mistook her serious expression for anger.
She emerges as a tough, lively, cultured and wilful woman, who also composed highly regarded songs that were characteristic of her era; a modern performer describes them as "sensual, charming and surprising".
Earlier this week, the government approved amendments to the bankruptcy law, barring "wilful" defaulters - defined by the central bank as debtors who are able but unwilling to pay - from bidding for companies.
"We will continue to strive for ensuring good governance and protection of interests of minority shareholders and all stakeholders in Tata Sons from the wilful brute rule of the majority," the statement said.
Whether it was a wilful idealism or just not wanting to be rude to a guest, my more cynical theories were rebuffed in favor of focusing on the possibilities of the music itself.
NEW DELHI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - India's cabinet on Wednesday gave approval to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code to prevent wilful defaulters from bidding for stressed assets, two TV channels reported citing unnamed sources.
Kunasek's Social Democratic predecessor Hans Peter Doskozil launched an unprecedented legal battle against Airbus and the Eurofighter consortium in 2017, accusing them of fraud and wilful deception in connection with a 2003 Eurofighter order.
"In all but one of these cases the Commissioner determined that although the conduct was serious it was not wilful or reckless and it did not adversely affect any individual significantly," the report continues.
China has blamed Washington for the trade conflict, with the foreign ministry calling it the biggest "confidence killer" for the global economy, and vowing to fight back if the United States continued to be "wilful".
The Narendra Modi-led government has been tightening norms against wilful defaulters especially after Indian aviation tycoon Vijay Mallya, fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi fled the country following repayment defaults.
IN 2016 the election of an American president with a wilful disregard for the truth inspired some observers to return to "On Bullshit", a monograph on hot air written in 1986 by Harry Frankfurt, a philosopher.
You accept the inherent security risks of providing information and dealing online over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.
The finance ministry had earlier asked banks to ensure that wilful defaulters were prevented from buying same stressed assets again as it strives to cut the record $147 billion soured loans accumulated in the banking sector.
When Mark Lewisohn, an expert on the band, was asked whether it was surprising that they split so quickly, he replied that the real question is how such headstrong and wilful characters stayed together for so long.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told parliament on Thursday that the government had instructed banks to go "all out" in their efforts to recover the money owed by Kingfisher, pointing to cases of "wilful default bordering on fraud".
"As far as the government is concerned the clear instructions are that the banks must go all out to take every possible action," he said, adding there were some cases of "wilful default even bordering (on) fraud".
PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - French state-owned bank Bpifrance and oil services company TechnipFMC have filed a complaint against Naval Group for wilful misrepresentation, a source close to the matter told Reuters, confirming a story in Challenges magazine.
As she carried on (for Umm Abdou, played by his 11-year-old schoolfriend Rasha, was wilful, beautiful, full of half-crazed ideas, and never stopped talking), he would keep a lordly silence, occasionally stroking an imaginary beard.
"As far as the government is concerned, the clear instructions are that the banks must go all out to take every possible action," he said, adding that there were some cases of "wilful default even bordering (on) fraud".
"The government of Myanmar's wilful deprivation of humanitarian aid to displaced civilians in Kachin State violates domestic and international law, and could amount to a war crime," said David Baulk, a Myanmar human rights specialist for Fortify Rights.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.S.-driven trade war has become the biggest "confidence killer" for the global economy, China's foreign ministry warned on Wednesday, saying the whole world would fight back if the United States continued to be "wilful".
Firearms should only be used as a last resort, and unjustified recourse to their use may amount to wilful killing of civilians, a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell told a briefing.
Defence Minister Mario Kunasek's Social Democratic predecessor Hans Peter Doskozil started an unprecedented legal battle with Airbus and the consortium a year ago, accusing them of fraud and wilful deception in connection with a $13 billion 2003 Eurofighter order.
Sure, he's a Czech with an accent in his name, he's a sharp dresser and has been known to smoke cigarettes in his press conferences, but he stands out through his wilful refusal to conform for its own sake.
Huawei said in a statement the company and T-Mobile settled their disputes in 2017 following a U.S. jury verdict that found "neither damage, unjust enrichment nor wilful and malicious conduct by Huawei in T-Mobile's trade secret claim".
A doctor's examination the next day revealed that a midwife's initial lack of precision, a genital abnormality and his family's collective and wilful ignorance had led to Ratjen living the first 20 years of his life as a woman.
Her history of drug addiction has been scrutinized, her abilities as a mother questioned, her erratic public behavior ridiculed and her marriage to Kurt and even his subsequent death treated as proof that she's nothing more than a wilful opportunist.
The idea of a celebrity lookalike is hugely depressing in itself; the fact that we will shower a man in praise, fame and renown on account of an arbitrary genetic quirk suggests that humanity is essentially irredeemable in its wilful idiocy.
VIENNA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Austria's defence ministry is set to file a lawsuit against Airbus accusing the group of wilful deception and fraud linked to a 2 billion euro ($2.1 billion) order of Eurofighter jets in 2003, APA news agency said on Thursday.
This article originally appeared on VICE Sweden Lena Andersson is one of Sweden's most talked-about authors—her 2013 novel Wilful Disregard won her the prestigious Swedish August Prize and the rights to it have already been sold to 19 other countries.
The five Labour MPs are certainly right that Bagehot would have worried about the transfer of power from Britain to the EU. As a creature of his time, he regarded continental Europe as a political backwater, governed by either unaccountable bureaucracies or wilful despots.
The president's habitual lying, his attacks on the press and his wilful stoking of grievance among his supporters have all contributed to a mood in American society that is more divided, febrile and angry than at any point since at least the late 20193s.
"The fact that Treasury has warned the South Korean banks will be strong evidence that further actions are wilful when the U.S. authorities decide what legal actions are appropriate and winnable," he said, noting that institutions could face a combination of civil penalties and forfeitures.
Here he makes the case that while Western imperialism cannot be blamed for everything, it played a significant role in shaping the region and its destiny and, as such, it is "wilful blindness to deny that the West is deeply implicated in the region's failures".
MUMBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - India's state-owned banks had classified 13 trillion rupees ($21.76 billion) worth of loans as "wilful defaults" in 2018-19, with the biggest lender State Bank of India accounting for nearly a third, the finance minister said in the parliament.
The government will also make it a criminal offence to commit "wilful and grossly reckless behaviour in relation to a pension scheme", it said in a so-called White Paper outlining government proposals for changes to the supervision of defined benefit, or final salary, pension schemes.
A separate criminal inquiry by the Department of Justice is investigating Mr Musk's actions, but Michael Liftik of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a former lawyer at the SEC, explains that the criminal investigators would need to prove Mr Musk's "knowing and wilful" intent to deceive and defraud the public.
The deputy leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party said the Turkish president was "reacting like a wilful child that cannot have his way", while a top leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party described Erdogan as the "despot of the Bosphorus" and demanded an apology.
Alongside that, Durham is running a "wilful blindfulness exercise", where officers aren't shown HART's prediction, but instead make their own guess as to whether the suspect will reoffend within two years and whether it will be serious, so researchers can see if humans and machines make the same choice.
The State Bank of India saw the highest number of wilful defaults at 461.58 billion rupees, while Punjab National Bank stood second at 250.9 billion rupees, with Bank of India at 98.9 billion rupees, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to queries in the parliament on Tuesday.
These include: wilful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering, causing serious injury to body or health; extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; hostage taking; and wilfully making the civilian population or individual civilians the object of attack, if death or serious injury is caused.
It's unclear yet whether the proposals that caught the eye of Treasury regulators were the result of ignorance or wilful intent by the banks and the South Korean government, but the calls set the stage for the United States to act if violations were discovered, said Joshua Stanton, an American lawyer who runs the site One Free Korea and has advised congressional staffers on North Korea sanctions law.
One of his backers was Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of leading euroskeptic Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has campaigned for a clean break with the EU. "We have seen over the course of the last few weeks the betrayal, wilful betrayal, of the greatest democratic exercise in the history of this nation," Farage said, vowing there would be "no more Mr Nice Guy" in what he called his fight back against parliament.

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