Sentences with phrase «by turning a blind eye»

But by turning a blind eye to the problems attendant upon the Charter, even serious Catholics have unwittingly colluded in the injustice toward priests.

, the Bush administration itself is already responding to the heat by turning a blind eye to stagnant NAEP results in order to showcase NCLB's success and «to accommodate state pleas for flexibility.»

Schools serving poor and minority students will respond to these dictates by turning a blind eye to discipline problems and by crowding advanced courses with unprepared students.

For decades, Dems have serviced Republicans» efforts by turning a blind eye to policies that hurt immigrants, women and blacks in exchange for the tokens of charter schools, which can reflect any political affiliation.

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

«China and Mexico are fueling illegal logging and conflict in the Peruvian Amazon by turning a blind eye to their illegal imports,» said Handy, noting that over 70 % of the timber sources verified in 2015 exports to these two countries were on Osinfor's red list.

Perhaps the communal face of corruption, as we define it, already existed within the ranks of the «gate - keepers», waiting to be rewarded by the truly greedy by turning a blind eye to their illegal, but highly profitable, manipulative machinations of a so - called self - righting / self - sustaining financial system.

Should we put more injury on an awful situation that government was responsible for by turning a blind eye to regulation.

Not exact matches

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.

involvement, and don't want government to run our affairs, but they don't» mind that the Corporate power in this country is becoming more like Organized Crime Mafia, and they turn the blind eye to their lawlessness and the injustice done, and heavy burdens that are being loaded on the ordinary people by those in power... That's why we have the poor, and ever - increasingly — becoming - poor working class.

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

Sullivan went on to suggest that Chaput is using a double standard in the 2008 election by criticizing Catholic supporters of Barack Obama, while turning a blind eye to John McCain's support for embryonic stem cell research.

And by correctly, I'm sure you mean turning a blind eye to many of the realities listed in the Bible.

by that thought we should hate the governments and business world wide almost everyone turned a blind eye to the Nazis including at the time The USA, England, France, Canada, No scientific foundations are know to ahve spoken against them at the time.

Ask yourselves this: If the news would have reported that Stan was willing to sanctions deals for the top five players that were voted for by the fans and went and signed them, I bet the majority would have turned a blind eye to the muppets hunting channel shenanigans??

As for the professionalism, quite a few people were unimpressed by some of Alexis's behavior, of course there will be others who turn a blind eye and defend him due to his effort and quality.

«By acting and not going, hopefully that will inspire some change when it comes to what we tolerate in this country, what is accepted and what we turn a blind eye toward.

Contributing to claims by former President Jerry John Rawlings that greed and corruption propelled the NDC to opposition, Alhaji Bature said corruption is under the nose of the former president but he has decided to turn a blind eye on it.

The government could stop turning a blind eye to people whose wealth came from foreign corruption, such as by applying new «unexplained wealth order» powers.

This they allegedly did by encouraging — or at least turning a blind eye to — undercover officers having intimate relationships with members of groups under surveillance.

They believed Cuomo controlled the commission, and would have it focus only on alleged corruption by the legislature, and turn a blind eye to any allegations of wrong doing from the executive branch.

Her deputy mayor had to leave office because it was revealed he was illegally double - dipping, something Miner apparently turned a blind eye to until it was brought to the light of day in a story also broke by the Syracuse Post-Standard.

BY ROGER STONE The once proud New York Democratic Party of Herbert Lehman, Al Smith and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, now turns a blind eye to sexual harassment of women.

The Westchester County DA's office has turned a blind eye to alleged criminal acts by Police Management and police officers throwing the Civil and Human rights of taxpayers out the window.

The Long Island firm was cited by city investigators in 2011 for turning a blind eye to — and benefiting from — years of theft and fraud by a crooked schools contractor.

Also on Comment, by Luke de Pulford: The CPS is wrong to turn a blind eye to the abortion of baby girls on demand

We can't turn a blind eye to possible perjury by public officials.

IBM and Verizon, vendors for «Project Connect,» are accused of turning a blind eye to the alleged scheme, according to a report by Richard Condon, Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, also released Thursday.

It appears that Mayor Richard W. Thomas and his administration may be turning a blind eye to all illegal carting activities by Spiezio's carting companies because of various campaign donations made by said companies owned by his trusted adviser.

No one can turn a blind eye to the projections everyone uses in South Florida: 2 feet of sea - level rise by 2060.

Connecting Singles is filled with married people and others that are only there for the forums, Reports of married people and vulgar, offensive language, fake profiles, stalking, harassment to the moderators of connectingsingles.com website are useless if they are regular users the moderators turn a blind eye to the pack attacks in the forums by the few regulars that post there, I would not recommend this dating website because of the lack of morals, respect, offensive behavior and vulgar language the moderators turn a blind eye to.

Connolly tries to have it both ways by striking a deal with Bulger that turned the latter into an informant in order to take down their common enemy, the Italian mafia, while turning a blind eye to Bulger's own criminal activities.

In a similar fashion, the US continue to turn a blind eye to heinous crimes and human rights violations, committed through state - sponsored violence by the Kigali regime, led by strong man President Paul Kagame.

I certainly agree with the comment above and there have been many gaffs that seem to have been made by Michael Wlshaw over the last year or so but the government turns a blind eye to his comments.Surely there needs to be a royal commission into the state of teacher recruitment as well as the true state of education in the UK?

Cases in which teachers choose to turn a blind eye are, by definition, not tracked.

Our current education system turns a blind eye regarding accountability, people get paid whether they perform well or not - at Tax payers expense.Let us get on the same page, monopoly of the education system by certain groups is no longer viable or economically sustainable.

What we should understand as citizens is that it is morally reprehensible to turn a blind eye to rules, policies, and laws judged to be wrong for children by their own parents.

After years of working in schools beset by turnaround programs that turned a blind eye to our individual experiences and communities, I now work in a school with a high capacity for responding to new demands and improving instruction.

Random House is turning a blind eye right now to Apple's iPad because Dohle said he was not sure about Apple's model which forces publishers to determine the end - consumer price, unlike for printed books which are priced by retailers.

But, lest you think it's only booksellers turning a blind eye to what needs to be done, Author Earnings has posted its Print vs Digital, Traditional vs Non-Traditional, Bookstore vs Online: 2016 Trade Publishing by the Numbers presentation.

While it's troubling that the CSA appears unfazed by Canadians having less choice over who helps them manage their financial futures, what's even more worrisome is that our regulators are turning a blind eye to overwhelming evidence that many households could lose access to advice altogether.

But judging by the USDA's repeated actions against the interests of vulnerable animals over the last year, it's time to recognize an alarming but obvious truth: Under the Trump administration, the USDA has not merely turned a blind eye to animal cruelty — it has become complicit in it.

While Valve doesn't directly participate in this grey industry, a pending lawsuit accuses the company of turning a blind eye to the business and facilitating the corruption of minors by allowing these third - party sites to use Steam's data.

This group is mostly united by the fact that they don't turn a blind eye to the obvious class hierarchy on which the art world runs.

By attempting to present an objective image of drug use, the artist addresses the cultural politics that allow our society to simultaneously glamorize the «drug look» in fashion magazines and the entertainment industry and meanwhile turn a blind eye to the complicated, and vast, problem of drug abuse.

Notwithstanding... what about his «bozo» superiors turning a blind eye when confronted... like I always say to my wife ``... they're stealing money again» (by drawing a wage from as a public sector employee)

Soon after Christy's testimony, Roger Pielke Jr. and Steve McIntyre weighed in by attacking the largely correct testimony from Christopher Field, while turning blind eye to Christy's grossly misleading testimony that contained myths regarding extreme weather events.

Mann was exonerated of academic malpractice by the same people who we now know turned a blind eye to child sexual abuse — they obviously had a bias towards protecting their famous people in both.

Environmental experts credit Agrawal with bringing national and international awareness to the problems disenfranchised communities in India face from the lack of accountability by industrial developers — and a government all too willing to turn a blind eye.