Sentences with phrase «blind eyes of»

In order to heal the blind eyes of the prince, the wolf must guide him by the hand to the depths of the forest to reach the witch's house.

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.

It was already present in the famous Code of Hammurabi, from the 18th century BCE: «If an upper - class man should blind the eye of another upper - class man, they shall blind his eye,» and so on through breaking bones, knocking out teeth, etc..

*** «Satan has blinded the eyes of those who believe not that Christ came in the flesh to atone for man's sins.»

for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous» (Deut.

If Catholicism could distort these teachings, what else have they been blinding the eyes of their believers with?

Dear Great I Am, Please open the «spiritually» blinded eyes of the «God naysayer».

More and more we're seeing just how he has blinded the eyes of the nonbelievers to the point where simple reasoning won't remove that Vail from their eyes.

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

My Lovelight is so bright its like a Beacon... even blinding the eyes of myself... have lots to give... just wan na be held..

Not exact matches

Know the risks of turning a blind eye.

Citing testimony from Gebremeskel and five other ex-conscripts, Human Rights Concern Eritrea accused Nevsun of turning a blind eye.

But assuming that the rest of the world will continue to turn a blind eye to American profligacy is a risky bet, and it will get riskier if Congress keeps skirting the tough choices for the next 10 years.

In the case of real estate, it's a matter of turning a blind eye to staggering losses, says Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

I question, though, the judgment of legalizing with a stroke of the pen everybody who is here, because that's basically saying that we as a nation will turn a blind eye to our own laws.

In the wake of this ticketing crisis, a black market for Olympic seats sprang up, to which Chinese law enforcement reportedly turned a blind eye.

The ubiquitous success of e-commerce retailers worldwide is hardly deniable today, and enough to allow overlooking that the majority of its business models are still beset with bottlenecks in different areas - unless you refuse to turn a blind eye to this, as do the co-founders of Idealz, the latest in a string of promising startup ideas popping up in the UAE.

Turning a blind eye to the actions of competing companies in your industry is a great way to get caught off guard and you'll miss out on valuable insights that can help your company thrive.

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is the world's first FDA - approved «bionic» eye, a piece of technology that is helping the blind to see.

If Woodside Petroleum is ever looking for a corporate slogan it could borrow a saying from the Dutch philosopher Erasmus: «in the land of the blind the one - eyed man is king».

In another, a scruffy bearded man peers through a set of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation of the evil deeds he will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumably.

Juan said on several occasions he personally delivered a payoff of 30 million pesos to one official to ensure that law enforcement turn a blind eye to the theft and extortion.

As long as they stayed in the good graces of the party elite and could plausibly portray their investments as being in the national interest, regulators mostly turned a blind eye to who owned what, what they were buying and how they were funding their expansion.

Turning a blind eye to the actions of industry rivals is a great way to be caught off guard.

But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.

He would associate his childhood with simple pleasures and ongoing loss, a general longing for simpler times and the physical handicap of his blind left eye, injured at age 7 when a neighborhood girl jammed a bottle in his face.

You need only look to Uber or Wells Fargo to see what happens when you make excuses or turn a blind eye to top performers» actions at the expense of culture.

Although law enforcement has largely turned a blind eye to most dispensaries, the fact remains: the sale of marijuana, for any use, is considered illegal by the federal government.

And yet the bots march on, aided by a double whammy: murky laws governing their creation and sale, and social media companies that have too often turned a blind eye to the veracity of their reported user numbers.

In Indonesia, Uber's local staff reportedly made a number of small payments to police officers to get them to turn a blind eye to the fact that it was operating a support office for local drivers outside the registered business zones of the capital, Jakarta.

«Party leaders were so keen to win the support of newspapers that we turned a blind eye to the need to sort this issue.

It's time that we stop turning a blind eye to assault and start promoting not only a culture of prevention, but also a culture of awareness.

But being obsessed with capturing the millennial mind share, are today's marketers turning a blind eye to more obvious truths of generational marketing?

The complaint, now in North Carolina Business Court, also accuses insurance giant MetLife, which was once affiliated with Rick Siskey's financial services firm, of turning a blind eye to his activities.

A responsible United States Congress would investigate these matters, and it speaks volumes about how invested the current Republican majority is in turning a blind eye to such a broad range of Trumpian misconduct that it doesn't even occur to anyone to wonder whether investigations will happen.

A female engineer had posted a long public account of rampant sexual harassment and the company's «bro culture,» to which Uber's HR department had turned a blind eye.

And Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apologized and then resigned last month after his management team was accused of fostering a boy's club culture and turning a blind eye to sexual harassment.

One person who was unimpressed with the recommendations was former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti, who in February accused the company's HR department of turning a blind eye to her complaints of sexual harassment — sparking the massive backlash that led to Holder's investigation.

What started out many years ago as a blind person having a seeing - eye dog has gotten totally out of hand.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

At the same time, we can not and should not turn a blind eye to the real pressures millions of families face at the hands of globalization, technological advances and other factors.»

Schools — including famous ones — that turn a blind eye to the burden of loans should be taken out and shot.

The idea flow was spectacular and the eye - opening to the world of impact investing was blinding!

But don't turn a blind eye to the people who are actually making a profit off of you.

Mr Farage said at the time that Mr Welby was «prepared to turn a blind eye» about the situation and highlighted that the Catholic Archbishop of Germany, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said the sex attacks «can in no way be tolerated».

Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.

Yeah, and the the blind spot in your eyes is the result of design by an idiot who, curiously, saw fit when «designing» the squid's eyeball to get the design right and so the squid has no blind spot.

I say, MAY, becasue to those whose hearts are open to the Spirit of God, He will remove the blinders from their spiritual eyes, and they will see, but some, because of hinderances, won't.

You sort of feel sorry for them because their pride has blinded their eyes as the pride of the Pharisees blinded their eyes to a Messiah riding in to glorious Jerusalem on a donkey, and all things «supposedly born of a virgin».

(103) «Now have come to you from your Lord, proofs (to open your eyes): if any will see, it, will be for (the good of) his own soul; if any will be blind it will be to his own (harm): I am not (here) to watch over your doings.»