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A man who perceives danger yet chooses to slumber without warning those who might be affected by it exhibits cruelty. Such an individual, willfully ignorant of the potential consequences, will inevitably bear the weight of self-inflicted remorse and face the consequences of his indifference. – Christen kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 2 months ago
When you raise your hand and take an oath to protect our country’s border, and you intentionally and willfully neglect to do that job, you should lose it, either way, Secretary Mayorkas has to go. – Nancy Mace	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest. – Pat Toomey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That's so absurd and dishonest for anyone to suggest that it has anything to do with BBB, who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest. – Pat Toomey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are not willfully choosing substances over their children. They are not making the decision to harm their physical health or to be a poor employee or a poor citizen or engage in illegal behavior. – Michael Roeske	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant Alex Jones willfully and in bad faith violated without justification several clear court orders requiring Alex Jones attendance at Alex Jones depositions on March 23 and March 24. – Barbara Bellis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
After extensive investigation into this tragic event, federal investigators determined that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone or some group of people willfully violated Kendrick Johnson's civil rights or committed any other prosecutable federal crime. – The Justice Department	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash, that we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about this country, and that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The bottom line is that willfully disobeying a lawful order is incompatible with military service and to get a vaccination is a lawful order. – Secretary Frank Kendall	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are extremely concerned about the events that were occurring at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, as part of the investigations, we will hold anyone accountable who is found to have willfully ignored or violated university regulations. – Bill Stackman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When Idahoans hear someone who conspired with tree spikers is the administration’s pick to lead the largest land management agency in America, they are rightfully appalled. Conspiring with tree spikers is not a mistake, a mistake is opening the sock drawer in the morning and pulling out two socks that don’t match. When you knowingly, willfully, intentionally, with malice and forethought, attempt to take someone else’s life – that’s not a mistake. – Jim Risch	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The passage of HB 377 and the accompanying insinuations about Idaho teachers are very disappointing, this is a' monster under the bed' problem brought about by a false and misleading narrative that some legislators have willfully conflated. They aim to diminish the public's trust in our teachers and schools, just to come back next year and push to privatize education. – Layne McInelly	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Whoever thought that was a good idea really just has refused to think critically about this or( is) willfully ignorant about it or just doesn't want to educate themselves about it, and that disturbs me from the educators of my children. – Black History MonthJessica Arnold	Found on CNN 3 years ago
These students willfully put others at risk, and that is never acceptable. We will not let the actions of a few take away the opportunity for in-person learning that more than 8,000 faculty and staff have worked so hard to accomplish for the more than 30,000 MU students. – University of Arizona	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Moreover, there are consistent reports that U.S. companies fail to undertake basic labor and human rights assessments in Xinjiang, in essence willfully ignoring the horrific conditions of forced labor in Xinjiang, in failing to uphold their responsibilities to vet their supply chains, these companies may be complicit in the mass repression of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups. – Democratic Senator Bob Menendez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It does take time to investigate the companies, but in these cases, the affidavits... say the companies knowingly and willfully hired people who were undocumented or the documents they were producing were false. – Cindy Eldridge	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Our employee code of conduct policy requires all employees to cooperate during all official investigations, but that's contingent on whether( the FBI and the Justice Department inspector general) provide use immunity, if( the employees) did something, whatever it is, even if it's illegal, that use immunity protects them, provided that they don't knowingly or don't willfully provide false statements. – Eric Young	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The lawsuit alleges that Omarosa Manigault Newman' knowingly and willfully' failed to file a report. This is untrue. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If Bucks County willfully violated the law for one person, they violated Bucks County for everyone. – Daryoush Taha	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The science on this has been settled. It's been solved. When I look at where we are today, with people who are willfully deciding to ignore the facts, it really frustrates me, i just don't understand the mindset of people who want to spread fear. – Josh Nerius	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For decades, USC has silenced the women who were violated in unspeakable ways by Dr. Tyndall, willfully ignoring the alarming complaints from nurses and patients as more and more students were sent into his office, our plaintiff and other women have bravely stepped forward to report these heinous acts, and through this lawsuit, we intend to hold defendants accountable. – Steve Berman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The company is willfully giving up money. – Justin Danhof	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
City-states and counties that knowingly, willfully and purposefully release criminal aliens back into their communities are sacrificing the lives and safety of American citizens, law enforcement officers in pursuit of an extreme open borders policy. – Jeff Sessions	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

A man who perceives danger yet chooses to slumber without warning those who might be affected by it exhibits cruelty. Such an individual, willfully ignorant of the potential consequences, will inevitably bear the weight of self-inflicted remorse and face the consequences of his indifference.

– Christen kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

When you raise your hand and take an oath to protect our country’s border, and you intentionally and willfully neglect to do that job, you should lose it, either way, Secretary Mayorkas has to go.

– Nancy Mace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest.

– Pat Toomey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's so absurd and dishonest for anyone to suggest that it has anything to do with BBB, who knew about BBB, you know, previous weeks when I've been raising this issue for all this time and I'm very clearly on record about this. So someone has to be willfully ignorant of the facts or dishonest.

– Pat Toomey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are not willfully choosing substances over their children. They are not making the decision to harm their physical health or to be a poor employee or a poor citizen or engage in illegal behavior.

– Michael Roeske

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant Alex Jones willfully and in bad faith violated without justification several clear court orders requiring Alex Jones attendance at Alex Jones depositions on March 23 and March 24.

– Barbara Bellis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

After extensive investigation into this tragic event, federal investigators determined that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone or some group of people willfully violated Kendrick Johnson's civil rights or committed any other prosecutable federal crime.

– The Justice Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash, that we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about this country, and that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The bottom line is that willfully disobeying a lawful order is incompatible with military service and to get a vaccination is a lawful order.

– Secretary Frank Kendall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are extremely concerned about the events that were occurring at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, as part of the investigations, we will hold anyone accountable who is found to have willfully ignored or violated university regulations.

– Bill Stackman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When Idahoans hear someone who conspired with tree spikers is the administration’s pick to lead the largest land management agency in America, they are rightfully appalled. Conspiring with tree spikers is not a mistake, a mistake is opening the sock drawer in the morning and pulling out two socks that don’t match. When you knowingly, willfully, intentionally, with malice and forethought, attempt to take someone else’s life – that’s not a mistake.

– Jim Risch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The passage of HB 377 and the accompanying insinuations about Idaho teachers are very disappointing, this is a' monster under the bed' problem brought about by a false and misleading narrative that some legislators have willfully conflated. They aim to diminish the public's trust in our teachers and schools, just to come back next year and push to privatize education.

– Layne McInelly

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whoever thought that was a good idea really just has refused to think critically about this or( is) willfully ignorant about it or just doesn't want to educate themselves about it, and that disturbs me from the educators of my children.

– Black History MonthJessica Arnold

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These students willfully put others at risk, and that is never acceptable. We will not let the actions of a few take away the opportunity for in-person learning that more than 8,000 faculty and staff have worked so hard to accomplish for the more than 30,000 MU students.

– University of Arizona

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Moreover, there are consistent reports that U.S. companies fail to undertake basic labor and human rights assessments in Xinjiang, in essence willfully ignoring the horrific conditions of forced labor in Xinjiang, in failing to uphold their responsibilities to vet their supply chains, these companies may be complicit in the mass repression of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups.

– Democratic Senator Bob Menendez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It does take time to investigate the companies, but in these cases, the affidavits... say the companies knowingly and willfully hired people who were undocumented or the documents they were producing were false.

– Cindy Eldridge

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our employee code of conduct policy requires all employees to cooperate during all official investigations, but that's contingent on whether( the FBI and the Justice Department inspector general) provide use immunity, if( the employees) did something, whatever it is, even if it's illegal, that use immunity protects them, provided that they don't knowingly or don't willfully provide false statements.

– Eric Young

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The lawsuit alleges that Omarosa Manigault Newman' knowingly and willfully' failed to file a report. This is untrue.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If Bucks County willfully violated the law for one person, they violated Bucks County for everyone.

– Daryoush Taha

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The science on this has been settled. It's been solved. When I look at where we are today, with people who are willfully deciding to ignore the facts, it really frustrates me, i just don't understand the mindset of people who want to spread fear.

– Josh Nerius

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For decades, USC has silenced the women who were violated in unspeakable ways by Dr. Tyndall, willfully ignoring the alarming complaints from nurses and patients as more and more students were sent into his office, our plaintiff and other women have bravely stepped forward to report these heinous acts, and through this lawsuit, we intend to hold defendants accountable.

– Steve Berman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The company is willfully giving up money.

– Justin Danhof

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

City-states and counties that knowingly, willfully and purposefully release criminal aliens back into their communities are sacrificing the lives and safety of American citizens, law enforcement officers in pursuit of an extreme open borders policy.

– Jeff Sessions

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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