Sentences with word «wilful»

Jeremy Hunt has NHS staff could face a new criminal offence of wilful neglect of patients as one of a series of measures adopted by the Health Secretary from the Francis report into the deaths at Stafford Hospital.

Trying to pretend otherwise is an act of wilful blindness.

Unintended consequences are a fact of life, but to make policy in wilful ignorance of them is not only disheartening but is nothing short of dangerous.

The company argued that he was disentitled because he was fired for wilful misconduct.

I have a bullet journal that I keep on my desk so when I'm at my day job designing socks I can jot down anything I need to do for Wilful North that evening.

I'm Holly, a textile designer from sunny Bolton and the creator of Wilful North.

the [endangerment finding] legislation is fundamentally anti-science, just as the rhetoric that supports it is grounded in wilful ignorance.

In some sharp exchanges over social media on Thursday, Lord Hain accused Prime Minister Theresa May and her predecessor David Cameron of wilful neglect and failing to act as honest brokers.

It is man's wilful violation of his essential and created goodness.

Still, one final but uncomfortable truth: what has climaxed as present «restructuring», started as wilful refusal to accept the result of a democratic election, by political blocs that lost.

nakedpastor, God does not tolerate wilful disobedience.

In criminal proceedings, the Crown Attorney bears the burden of proving that the defendant not only committed the act alleged but did so «intentionally or recklessly, with knowledge of the facts constituting the offence, or with wilful blindness toward them.»

«At no point did the company suffer from wilful blindness on my part,» he insists.

Dr Elizabeth Whitworth from RSK ADAS, and formerly of the University of Surrey, said: «The salient feature of the new categorization is that it distinguishes between scares caused by wilful deception, and those that are caused by transparency and awareness issues.»

But when salespeople slip over the line that divides honest mistake from wilful act or omission, our industry deserves respect.

This means recognizing scientific evidence for what it is, not introducing wilful distortions, and not engaging in misleading polemical campaigns.

A worker's comment that «I guess I'd have to kill you» was clearly inappropriate but did not constitute wilful misconduct under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has held.

This almost wilful attempt to ruin young players borders on insanity.

Such limitation and exclusion of liability shall not apply if the Hotel's legal representatives or executives are responsible for wilful intent or gross negligence.

Helen Mirren plays the redoubtable Alma, Anthony Hopkins the mercurial Hitch, who in this film seems less a monster, more a spoilt and wilful child.

For policy reasons ICBC says, employers should not be held vicariously liable for wilful breaches of privacy under the Privacy Act.

Careless or wilful misrepresentation in human rights stories is common — and refutations or the rare apology or correction has far less impact.

For example, Wilkinson v Downton [1897] 2 QB 57 established the tort of wilful infringement of personal safety.

As long as you weren't fired for wilful wrongdoing, you can spin your termination in a positive light...

Under RCW 16.08.090 (3), dogs will not be declared as a dangerous threat when the injury was sustained to a person who at the time of the incident, was committing wilful trespass or other tort upon the premises occupied by the owner of the dog.

He said going to court may not favour the traders because the politicians have their ways in manipulating the courts to favour them, but it was good for them to drag the Lagos State governor and government to court for wilful damage to their goods, at least for it to be on record.

You accept the risks of providing information and dealing on line over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless such breach is due to our negligence or wilful default.

The Canadian Bar Association supported «retaining section 13 as a useful tool,» but had reservations about the punitive fines and stated in a paper that promotion of hatred is a «social evil» that has increased with the proliferation of the Internet, and that the standard for wilful promotion of hatred in the Criminal Code is very hard to prove.

She would say it with such wilful intensity that it became necessary to re-examine the issue that sparked the fierce rejection of the apology.

Your last article reminds me of a very good piece by Ed Smith in the New Statesman in September about Wenger's wilful blind spots - worth a read if you haven't seen it.

Can you introduce yourself and tell us what you do and how Wilful North came to life?

That the New York Times should characterize Climategate correspondents as «private individuals» rather than senior IPCC authors is the type of wilful obtuseness that has characterized far too much disinformation on Climategate, not just by the New York Times, but by Nature, Science and institutions that far too often seem to confuse the narrowest interest of climate scientists with the interest of the public.

But to arrange a show predicated on history painting in a non-chronological order smacks of wilful perversity.

Even though they are very protective of their family and owner but they can be extremely wilful dogs and usually can't be trusted with strangers or guests.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

They were a gross distortion of the Catholic faith and revealed an almost wilful ignorance of the Catechism in answering questions about mortal sin, confession and holy communion.

And doing so in the face of super-squeezed budgets, when it could have a detrimental impact on local schools in terms of funding and the loss of a genuinely comprehensive intake, feels like wilful neglect.

Are you and Wenger actually the same person, because you both share the same wilful blindness to reality?

realistically he's only a 45 min player, who needs to be more fearlessness and to show wilful intent, that's in each and every game.

Can't understand wilful & total destruction of EU expertise, with Cunliffe, Ellam & Scholar also out of loop.

Another golden anniversary — and opportunity — for serious soul searching, to save the nation from its wild past, seems lost to wilful manipulation.