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  • The chapter still targets both commercial infringement and cases of non-commercial "wilfull" infringement.

    Michael Geist Blog Michael Geist 2010

  • The chapter still targets both commercial infringement and cases of non-commercial "wilfull" infringement.

    Michael Geist Blog Michael Geist 2010

  • Do some people * know* that they are on the wrong side, but protecting their own interests, preserving prejudice or wilfull ignorance prevents them from admitting it?

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Grad – I did laugh at the thought of my young woman being confronted by a wilfull daughter!

    Tough Love « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Trouble is, as is typical of nihilists, what you imagine are principles are actually delusions based on wilfull ignorance. abb1 Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties? 2009

  • This dilettante approach to government, the inability to take sound counsel, the tabloid-worthy family life, the wilfull celebration of ignorance and anti-intellectualism all should be immediate disqualifiers.

    Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election 2009

  • Health care reform is long over due and everyone knows it, only the useful and wilfull idiots would deny this.

    Obama: Status quo is scarier than health-care overhaul 2009

  • A while the princess stood and moaned in mad amaze, then with one wilfull wrench she bared the white flowers of her breast and snatching forth her own red heart held it with one hand aloft while with the other she gathered close her robe and poised herself.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Instead, you wade into the befouled site that is election central in the aftermath of Kleefeld's wilfull blindness and write:

    Obama Beefing Up Florida Efforts, Padding Out Staff 2009

  • It's his wilfull disregard for what he knows to be the rules, his willingness to twist them this way and that, always in the guise of self-righteousness.

    Can The Process That Determines Outcome In Florida And Michigan Be Hijacked? Nope. 2009

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