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It shows a total lack of regulation engaging the liability of social media providers and digital platforms to police exploitative content, it shows a willful ignorance of the very well-known dangers of the cyber-world for minors. – Gabrielle Usatynski	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's no way you could reasonably associate choosing to go without vaccinations for Covid... and assuming that you're in the same spot as a Jewish person in Nazi Germany, to me, it's willful ignorance. – Roger Abramson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even the best law enforcement officers make mistakes and ... some engage in willful misconduct, we can only hope to maintain public confidence if we correct mistakes, hold wrongdoers accountable and adopt policies to prevent problems from recurring. – Rod Rosenstein	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
COVID-19 is the reaction of nature to our abusive & willful misconduct. – Ahmad F. Hedayat	added by iamhedayat 3 years ago
Fines of up to $250,000 can be assessed for each act of willful discrimination, and damages are available to complainants. – New York	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
So often, it seems, that willful ignorance is, now, the default position for absolute certainty. Dudley Sharp, 2019 – Dudley Sharp	added by anonymous 4 years ago
While some outlets have incorrectly reported that federal rules generally prohibit The PACs from providing more than $ 5,000 in services to campaigns, Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti told Fox News that the payments were likely proper so long as The PACs were for the fair market value of the services rendered. Job Creators Network CEO Ortiz on' Thanks for nothing, AOC !' billboard in New York City. In terms of possible penalties, Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti said that Ocasio-Cortezs campaign could be facing FEC fines if it followed bad legal advice and made reporting errors. But civil or even criminal fraud statutes, as opposed to campaign finance laws, would potentially kick in if it were determined that Saikat Chakrabarti had intentionally tried to hide the money to use for illicit expenses. Meanwhile, Former FEC commissioner Brad Smith told the Daily Caller News Foundations investigative unit that, because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently held legal control of Justice Democrats PACwhile Justice Democrats PAC was supporting Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti campaign, thetwo committees were likely acting as affiliated committees -- andtherefore share a single contribution limit of $ 2,700 that might have been exceeded. If this were determined to be knowing and willful, they could be facing jail time, even if its not knowing and willful, it would be a clear civil violation of the act, which would require disgorgement of the contributions and civil penalties. I think theyve got some real issues here. Mondays filingcomes on the heels of a separate complaint by theWashington, D.C.-based Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which alleged last week that theBrand New New York Democratic Congressional PACmay have illegally funneled thousands of dollars to Riley Roberts, Riley Roberts. It was firstreported late last month that Justice Democrats PAC paid Riley Roberts during the early days of the Ocasio-Cortez campaign.According to FEC records, Justice Democrats PAC made two payments to Roberts one in August 2017 and one in September 2017 both for $ 3,000. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The FEC complaint specifically cites the use of. – Former FEC commissioner Brad Smith	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Now that Michael Slager has pleaded guilty to a willful violation, admitted the facts we set out to prove and waived the right to appeal Michael Slager conviction, a successive prosecution by the State is not necessary. – Anthony Scott	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I can't help but comment on the qualities that seem to be valued in administrators at the EPA: willful blindness, in this case to the pain and suffering of Flint residents; unremorseful for their role in causing this man-made disaster; and completely unrepentant. – Marc Edwards	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The CEO and chairman of one of America's largest coal companies now stands convicted of willful violations of the laws that are designed to keep coal miners safe. to go from boardroom to the prospect of incarceration sends a powerful message to executives who would ignore the safety of their workers. It doesn't matter who you are, how rich you are, how powerful you are, if you violate the laws and gamble with the lives of your workers, you will be held accountable. – Booth Goodwin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is a deliberate and willful act of murder and criminality. – Hanan Ashrawi	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses. – Richard K. Morgan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I had always been willful and very much my own person. If I believed in something, I tried to follow up on it. – Barbara Ledermann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something. – Leo Buscaglia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine. – Seán O'Casey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni. – W. H. Auden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something. – Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It shows a total lack of regulation engaging the liability of social media providers and digital platforms to police exploitative content, it shows a willful ignorance of the very well-known dangers of the cyber-world for minors.

– Gabrielle Usatynski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's no way you could reasonably associate choosing to go without vaccinations for Covid... and assuming that you're in the same spot as a Jewish person in Nazi Germany, to me, it's willful ignorance.

– Roger Abramson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even the best law enforcement officers make mistakes and ... some engage in willful misconduct, we can only hope to maintain public confidence if we correct mistakes, hold wrongdoers accountable and adopt policies to prevent problems from recurring.

– Rod Rosenstein

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

COVID-19 is the reaction of nature to our abusive & willful misconduct.

– Ahmad F. Hedayat

added by iamhedayat
3 years ago

Fines of up to $250,000 can be assessed for each act of willful discrimination, and damages are available to complainants.

– New York

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

So often, it seems, that willful ignorance is, now, the default position for absolute certainty. Dudley Sharp, 2019

– Dudley Sharp

added by anonymous
4 years ago

While some outlets have incorrectly reported that federal rules generally prohibit The PACs from providing more than $ 5,000 in services to campaigns, Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti told Fox News that the payments were likely proper so long as The PACs were for the fair market value of the services rendered. Job Creators Network CEO Ortiz on' Thanks for nothing, AOC !' billboard in New York City. In terms of possible penalties, Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti said that Ocasio-Cortezs campaign could be facing FEC fines if it followed bad legal advice and made reporting errors. But civil or even criminal fraud statutes, as opposed to campaign finance laws, would potentially kick in if it were determined that Saikat Chakrabarti had intentionally tried to hide the money to use for illicit expenses. Meanwhile, Former FEC commissioner Brad Smith told the Daily Caller News Foundations investigative unit that, because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently held legal control of Justice Democrats PACwhile Justice Democrats PAC was supporting Scott Applewhite -RRB- Noti campaign, thetwo committees were likely acting as affiliated committees -- andtherefore share a single contribution limit of $ 2,700 that might have been exceeded. If this were determined to be knowing and willful, they could be facing jail time, even if its not knowing and willful, it would be a clear civil violation of the act, which would require disgorgement of the contributions and civil penalties. I think theyve got some real issues here. Mondays filingcomes on the heels of a separate complaint by theWashington, D.C.-based Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which alleged last week that theBrand New New York Democratic Congressional PACmay have illegally funneled thousands of dollars to Riley Roberts, Riley Roberts. It was firstreported late last month that Justice Democrats PAC paid Riley Roberts during the early days of the Ocasio-Cortez campaign.According to FEC records, Justice Democrats PAC made two payments to Roberts one in August 2017 and one in September 2017 both for $ 3,000. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The FEC complaint specifically cites the use of.

– Former FEC commissioner Brad Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Now that Michael Slager has pleaded guilty to a willful violation, admitted the facts we set out to prove and waived the right to appeal Michael Slager conviction, a successive prosecution by the State is not necessary.

– Anthony Scott

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I can't help but comment on the qualities that seem to be valued in administrators at the EPA: willful blindness, in this case to the pain and suffering of Flint residents; unremorseful for their role in causing this man-made disaster; and completely unrepentant.

– Marc Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The CEO and chairman of one of America's largest coal companies now stands convicted of willful violations of the laws that are designed to keep coal miners safe. to go from boardroom to the prospect of incarceration sends a powerful message to executives who would ignore the safety of their workers. It doesn't matter who you are, how rich you are, how powerful you are, if you violate the laws and gamble with the lives of your workers, you will be held accountable.

– Booth Goodwin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is a deliberate and willful act of murder and criminality.

– Hanan Ashrawi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a willful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.

– Richard K. Morgan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I had always been willful and very much my own person. If I believed in something, I tried to follow up on it.

– Barbara Ledermann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

– Leo Buscaglia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

– Seán O'Casey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

– W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

– Alexander Pope

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something.

– Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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