Sentences with phrase «as willful»

However, this youngster has achieved such a high level of alienation from his father that it would be unrealistic and counter-productive to seriously entertain requiring him, at age 16 and as willful as has been indicated, to reconcile with and live with his father.

Terrorism is defined as a willful and deliberate act that is 1) an act that is a violent felony; 2) an act that the person knows or has reason to know is dangerous to human life; and, 3) an act that is intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence or affect the conduct of government through intimidation or coercion.

Though it is rarely perceived as a willful act, many lawyers have taken a leap of faith and left permanent employment to take on a contract in a bet for something better.

It doesn't even matter if the employee did something that caused the accident, unless the employee's conduct qualifies as willful misconduct.

Failure to implement HIPAA policies and procedures could be construed as willful neglect and result in significant financial penalties.

Optimally, federal statutes creating an agency or setting forth some comprehensive system of regulation should still contain criminal penalties - but only for more serious crimes, such as willful fraud, bribery, or reckless endangerment.

To ignore this armada of safeguards against error in the face of known issues with proxy data can only be described as willful ignorance.

Their contrived, consensually validated «necessity» for unbridled economic growth could be eventually seen as fraudent as well as an willful exercise of governmental and corporate malfeasence, all of it based upon the selfish interests of a tiny minority of wealthy and powerful people.

Independent and stubborn, they need a strong trainer that can be as willful as it is.

Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would - be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper - in a town where blacks weren't allowed after dark.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

They suggest that «teachers who are unaware of the dynamics of complex trauma can easily mistake its manifestations as willful disobedience, defiance, or inattention, leading them to respond to it as though it were mere «misbehavior»» (p. 36).

One step that schools should take is to discourage suspensions and expulsions for more subjective infractions such as willful defiance.

While quick and eager to offer food for thought with its questions raised, they are then far less sure to offer any sort of satisfying explanations or even at least the beginnings of them, the wishy - washy vagueness ultimately coming off as a willful decision less for intriguing, stimulating ambiguity than to rather gracelessly leave open back doors for sequels.

The abstract, impressionistic, modernistic textures perfectly capture the torment that both characters at times feel, as well as their willful and often unpleasant personalities.

«The violations discovered by the investigation can only be described as willful and flagrant.»

«The violations discovered by this investigation can only be described as willful and flagrant.»

Their behavior is often misinterpreted as an inability to speak at all, or as a willful refusal to speak.

At 13 months, she is as willful as they come!

«If the mother sees this fussiness as willful misbehavior and begins verbally punishing or spanking, rather than empathizing with the child, the child's behavior deteriorates into more tantrums and other frustrating behavior,» said Markham, who also offers advice at AhaParenting.com.

My willpower isn't always as willful as I'd like.

They see theists as willful obstacles and agents of intolerance and ignorance, which, let's be real, they totally are.

Sin must be defined initially as a willful «act.»

No such thing as willful cooperation when the fascist authorities are holding the sword against one's throat.

1:17: «judge the fatherless, plead for the widow») as well as willful offenders.

It's sad that so many believers choose willful blindness with regard to evolution, and some other sciences, as well as willful blindness to the human rights of some minority groups.

Critics point to The Stat as a willful misrepresentation and an attempt to sucker people into buying franchises.

Not exact matches

Saying this could qualify as «willful» disregard of the law, lawyer Robert Barnes wrote for the site LawNewz, and a court would take that into account when assessing the newspaper's right to do so.

Using the «willful disregard» benchmark, Trump's statement should qualify as a lie.

«Giuliani suggesting it was funneled through the firm as legal fees,» Noble said, «is evidence of an intent to hide the source, which could make it knowing and willful, which is criminal.»

The Trustee will use reasonable care in the performance of its custodial duties under the Trust Agreement and will only be responsible for any loss or damage suffered by the Trust as a direct result of any gross negligence, fraud or willful default in the performance of its duties.

Chad's reliance on PE as requiring divine intervention and his willful misrepresentations (e.g. «pure chance can never explain the grand paroxysm of necessarily interrelated mutations that are required to occur to accomplish this rapid change») have been repeatedly refuted.

It shows, not only the overall willful ignorance of religion, but it clearly displays the lack of regard for others it so staunchly claims as a tenet.

Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.

The alternative would be that God created us as pre-programmed robots - a situation that would prevent both horrible tragedies and willful acts of kindness and love.

Dissent that is truly conscientious, and not self - serving or willful, is, even when wrongheaded, a rare and valuable commodity in a culture as decadent as ours.

willful ignorance, as described in 1st Peter, is on of four reasons a person will not be saved.

As for not being perfect, well, that applies to our sin nature, not the willful or ignorant teaching of unsound doctrine.

At the core, I think the word «faith» can sum up a willful ignorance and turning of the eye in matters such as these in lieu of something much more Christologically and hypostatically nuanced and incarnationally robust.

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

This section is often used to suggest that textual problems could look cut and dried to you, but only because God made it look that way as punishment for your willful refusal to believe.

Those that he describes as «wise» are men / women captured by the hypostatization of the immanent pole of the tension of existence, who, because of the willful and prideful self - alienation (allotriosis) exist outside this reveled knowledge and consequently are unidentifiable as God's creations, that is they exist in a state of sin.

if you had a clue what you were saying, you wouldn't need to bring interpretation into this, as even the literal words of the Bible are ignored by mr. baden so that he could insert his own willful and dishonest interpretation.

They committed willful sins just as frequently as we do today, and God loved them just as much as He loves us today, and God did not want to abandon them to despair any more than He wants to abandon us today.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

Scott mentions some examples of grievous willful sins such as murder, rape, sexual immorality, etc. and wonder what they mean in light of the gift of salvation freely given by faith in Christ.

I believed in the deity of Jesus as a very young man, but I definitely did fall away in willful sin after knowing the truth and I fell miserably for many many years.

I came to knowledge in Christ when I was still a child, and rebelled as a teen, committing willful sins and telling myself I would just ask forgiveness later.

The willful blindness Eberstadt condemns in liberationists and Marxist professors, therefore, is not so bad as that of the pro-life journals.

«I really do nt have nearly as much experience as you do with the willful suspension of disbelief»