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That this was an act of gross ignorance or a culpable negligence.
He was shocked at the gross ignorance which could call the classic ideal of beauty and grace a disgusting work.
"Nobody knows us down there," said one, a gentleman whose face was a slight improvement over gross ignorance and sensuality.
The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness.
That the public were misled, even for an instant, merely proves the gross ignorance which is so generally prevalent upon subjects of an astronomical nature.
With this ignorance of human nature goes an ever grosser ignorance of the divine nature.
Rational choice theorists claim that this explains the gross ignorance of most citizens in modern democracies as well as low voter turnout.
Lord Macaulay says 'he showed such gross ignorance of law and history as brought on him the contempt of all who heard him.'
This reflects gross ignorance about the nature of HIV transmission, which requires intimate contact and the exchange of body fluids.
You've managed to damage the nation's credit rating for the first time in history because of the gross ignorance of the teabagger patsies - and do you apologize?
Smith argued that this epidemic of "gross ignorance and stupidity" wrought by the division of labor in civilized societies can be countered by extensive public education.
Middleton and Bayles attempted to defend themselves against the allegations, but the 1846 Report mentions the Examiners' surprise at "the gross ignorance of the boys in divinity".
But it unintentionally illustrates something a good deal more important: the continuing gross ignorance of most of the lay public about the vast change that has come over the field of history.
The same thing may be said of the gross ignorance and stupidity which, in a civilised society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people.
'On the morrow,' so runs many an entry in Thomas Boston's Memoirs, 'I visited the sick, and spent the afternoon in visiting others, and found gross ignorance prevailing.
Why they are cutting BBC local radio at the same time as doing this can only be gross incompetence on the Govt's part - or probably more likely, gross ignorance.
Such criticism, however, typically reflects gross ignorance of the textbook industry, the people in it, the basis on which textbooks are developed and the role textbooks play in the overall educative process.
They found that the opinion of the members of the former committee of examination had no scientific basis, and later, before the court, they taxed them with gross ignorance: the body was too much decayed to allow a positive judgment.
Their gross ignorance is the very smallest of their sins.anything so uncouth I never saw before.' wrote the British Consul at La Spezia, Italy, under the nom de plume Cornelius O'Dowd.
It must be concluded that the actions of the accused showed gross ignorance of medical facts, and extreme want of judgment in placing reliance on his uninformed opinions in order to commit an act with the most serious and far-reaching possibilities.
No, he struggled, and appears hard-pressed to catch the Oaklands, a team managed by the sagacious Tony LaRussa, who only two seasons ago had been bounced by the White Sox for gross ignorance in managing a big league ball club.
We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner; but these are not incurable faults; nor, I trust, can they be dangerous for her associates.
The Supreme Court of the Philippines on March 21, 2008, upon recommendation of the investigator, Bernardo P. Pardo, dismissed Philippine Court of Appeals Justice Elvi John Asuncion for gross ignorance of the law and delaying motions of considerations.
The Supreme Court, however, found no substantial evidence of bribery, but it dismissed him for gross ignorance of the law for his issuance of an October 30, 2001, resolution in the case between Philippine National Bank, the National Labor Relations Commission and Erlinda Archinas.
In failing to recognize that women have been abused on account of gender and that the refusal to protect them from this abuse amounts to persecution within the purview of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the United States would exhibit gross ignorance of the plight of women in the third world.