To "turn a
blind eye" means to intentionally ignore or overlook something, usually a problem or wrongdoing. It implies pretending not to see or notice something even though it is clear or obvious.
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He said some people were deliberately
turning blind eyes to the prevailing realities in the country.
According to him, we see corruption as a normal act in the country so we
give blind eyes to the unlawful act.
But for the ones that are not cute or small, and that involves most of the calls I get, there is a
big blind eye turned toward them.
Essentially, ed schools and education researchers are
turning blind eyes to the effectiveness of teacher training at the end stage.
He just turns on the deaf ear or
blind eye on pressing issues.
In Heaven on Earth, Richard Landes redresses our historiographical
blind eye towards manifestly irrational social movements.
Jesus chose to lay his life down willingly in a special teamwork with the Father and Holy Spirit so that we could see how much he loves us and be freed from the scales of shame and guilt and rejection that have
blinded our eyes for centuries.
The findings, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, point to critical interventions in the prevention and treatment of
blinding eye diseases, such as age - related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy (DR), among Chinese Americans.
So that is the state of the unbelieving world, since they are under the influence of the god of this age, Satan, who
blinds their eyes so that they can not see or understand the truth.
Keeping blood sugar close to normal and taking drugs to hold down blood levels of cholesterol and other fats can help people with diabetes avoid the
potentially blinding eye disease retinopathy, researchers report.
Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially
blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug Lucentis made by the same company, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
At the same time, it should maintain Uncle Sam's pressure for serious school reform and not signal to recalcitrant districts or failing schools (or education interest groups) that we're returning to business as usual or turning
blind eyes back to mediocre performance and yawning achievement gaps.
I think of the mollusk that lets the coffined pearl,
blind eye white as albumen» grow.
As Ambassador I turned a
Nelsonian blind eye to all this if it was obvious that a Brit was becalmed in unjust local bureaucracy, the case dragging on for years.
The new study, based on U.S. emergency department visits at specific years of age, refutes the belief that workplace chemicals are the most common cause of these potentially
blinding eye injuries.
Transtracheal washes, lung aspirates, lymph nodes aspirates, impression smears of draining skin lesions, and histological examination of a
removed blind eye will yield organisms.
The company has turned a
mostly blind eye to password sharing, but you may still want to know who's been logging into your account — especially if you think someone got access without your approval.
It's not an act of activism, either, although the film's outrage about the abuse of power of the local police and the
intentionally blind eyes of the state police, as well as the armed forces, is palpable.
I'm intrigued by the gathering that the Lord has led you into and will do my best to be lifting you and this group up in prayers, especially in regards to the truth of the gospel's light breaking
through blind eyes and giving knowledge of His Glory in truth (2 Cor 4:4 - 6).
In his new history of Europe since 1945, Tony Judt laments how «the Catholic Church got off very lightly indeed, in view of Pius XII's warm relations with Fascism and the
pro-actively blind eye he turned to Nazi crimes.»
Since it must be a hangover effect of sitting in her sister's shadows, I'm turning a
somewhat blind eye to it.
Eye examinations may detect potentially
treatable blinding eye diseases, ocular manifestations of systemic disease, or signs of tumours or other anomalies of the brain.
Announcement during World Glaucoma Week emphasizes importance of research to
cure blinding eye disease.
Findings raise the possibility of
treating blinding eye diseases using a patient's own corrected cells as replacement tissue
If I am to turn a
half blind eye to the stated age, at least can the photos be current?
What was scary though are those dead, blind eyes!!
Trade, economics, and the
subsequent blind eye we all turn to the atrocities that allow us our lifestyles.
When push comes to shove, his tactics operate by the
same blind eye — it's simply easier to side with him because we know everything of his stakes and nothing of anyone else's.
This hyper focus exacerbates our nearly
systematic blind eye related to learning for living and cultivating life long learners.
It's the best tool we have for reducing the frequency of our breed's most
common blinding eye disease.
By now, I expected Nintendo would act on this, but instead they seem to be simply turning a
partially blind eye to it.
The gallery's director played the same role before for Deitch Projects, and if Jeffrey Deitch turned his
usual blind eye to abstraction, it would look like this.
I hope you will not forget us what happening our region is clear even bush adminstration knows more than every body but they are
looking blinds eyes we are waiting the result of the coming election
The law lords ruled that actual knowledge includes turning a
deliberate blind eye and not asking when one suspects something.
Lofty aspirations, repeated often, without a snowball's chance in hell of ever being realised because of the stubborn refusal (or possibly even the
convenient blind eye being turned) to the fact that there is a clear lack of capacity to deliver - both in human terms and in terms of the financial inputs.
To turn a
wilful blind eye is tantamount to being a willing cohort to crime... in pursuit of that easier - than - usual pursuit of a commission.