It also said that recruits had been given athletic equipment and that an Illinois recruiter had engaged in a knowing and willful effort to break N.C.A.A. rules.

Did he use up all his ability in one mad, willful effort to escape?

The pretrial motions in the Libby case have not, as yet, produced evidence that there was any willful effort to leak Ms. Wilson's identity.

The harsher potential charges announced today would apparently apply to a deliberate, willful effort by a patient to spread the disease, something that has not been reported.

But the Mollen Commission said it concluded that the problem was "a willful effort" by commanders of the Internal Affairs Division, the principal anti-corruption unit, to impede the investigation.

Secretly, each knew that being objective about this particular patient would require a great and willful effort.

If there are problems, we suspect that most stem from inadvertent errors because of the complexity of the rules - not willful efforts to avoid compliance.

Whether that's a result of inadequate education or evidence of a willful effort to get attention, I'm not sure.

Some of those immigrants and their first-generation American children turned away from the past in a willful effort to escape it.

Betty Greer, Post-Feminism and the Robotech Wars Lieutenant Marie Crystal made a willful effort to face the camera now as she had faced enemy guns yesterday.