Sentences with phrase «deaf ears of»

All of the advice that is available out there (much of it proven to be somewhat effective when selectively applied by money - mongers) falls on the deaf ears of incompetence.

Or if you enjoy heaping words of affirmation but they fall on the deaf ears of someone who just really wants a back rub.

With the variable rate is not showing any sign of recovery anytime soon some borrowers are whining about the benefits of a variable rates in the deaf ears of lenders for quite sometime.

While countless researchers have highlighted the faults of teacher accountability systems and growth models (unfortunately to fall on the deaf ears of those mandating such policies), very rarely are teachers asked how such policies play out in practice, or for their opinions, as representing their voices in all of this.

His points are valid, but the same points have been raised for years in education only to fall upon the deaf ears of bureaucrats.

But our calls for change continually fell upon the deaf ears of previous administrations.

Your valuable lessons will be sure to fall on the deaf ears of a child who feels unheard, punished, threatened or disconnected.

Not exact matches

But the tinnitus — ringing in my ears that started years ago because I attended a lot of punk rock gigs in my youth — has gotten worse, making me feel more deaf.

Brands seem to be spending a lot of money on messaging that falls on deaf ears.

We explain the fact that because social customer management is a strategic stance rather than something that comes out of a box like brand - name CRM software, it has often fallen on deaf ears.

For example, listicles tend to drive a lot of engagement, but if that's the only content format that you're producing, eventually your audience may grow tired of it and your efforts might fall on deaf ears.

In the most recent issue, on health, one designer used illustrations and captions to capture the discombobulating experience of being deaf in one ear.

Residents of the high - rise said all previous warnings to building managers had «fallen on deaf ears» The post London Housing Project Fire Kills At...

What this means is if organizations only attempt to reach buyers on static informational factors, as mentioned above, their messages will fall on deaf ears or be a part of a chorus all competitors are singing.

But the FBI's statement is the latest piece of evidence that many people not only saw red flags in Cruz's behavior but tried to report them — and those warnings were not thoroughly pursued or fell on deaf ears.

Why is it that I still seem deaf to the pleadings of amputees who would like their fingers, arms or legs back, to those who have physically lost eyes or ears, to the horribly burned and to all others who ail from patently visible and currently incurable maladies?

Good point John But I fear appealing to a love of animals, which I cherish deeply as well, is likely to fall on deaf ears.

The rythms of the liturgy fall upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeness.

My attempts on declaring God's Kingdom Domains to be inside all of Life is reaching deaf ears with many perhaps all who remain in sedintary conditionings never to righteously understand God, the Father of Creations» Celestial and all creations terrestrial of living manifestations everywhere possible within the grandness of the Cosmos of Celestialness!

Instead of looking at a universal definition of the poor as those who have been deprived, stereotyped and discriminated against, they are on a mission to make the cripple to walk; the blind to see forcibly; the deaf to hear by knocking their ears with sledge hammer; the dumb to speak by inserting tube in their esophagus and the list goes.

It appears as though your words «are falling upon deaf ears» And so I ask of you in your daily life... Preach the Gospel at all Times, and When Neccessary Use Words.

the ears of men have become deaf, their eyes no longer see their sin.

For years, I felt frustrated and bitter that all my prayers of «Here I am Lord, send me» seemed to fall on deaf ears as I wasted away in cubicle life.

Some justify turning a deaf ear to the Conciliar teaching of Gaudium et Spes by pointing to the word «pastoral» in its title, to its unusual aversion for definitive canons, and its apparent emphasis upon the sixties concept of «progress».

But... John Paul's pleading against war often fell on deaf ears, as did his appeals to Catholic institutions to adhere to the fullness of the Catholic faith, his call to the young to live chastely, his pleas for a renewal of priestly life.

When the bishops of Athens and Jerusalem turned deaf ears to struggles of social and moral importance, Jakovos committed the American Orthodox church to the black civil rights movement and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

Unfortunately, given the tone and content of many of the comments here, his ideas will fall on deaf ears.

This deaf - ears argument was rejected right away — two - thirds of the ministers (68 per cent) agreed that «Clergymen have great potential to influence the political and social beliefs of their parishioners.»

I saw a deaf man begin to speak in tongues which was astounding and a young girl hear from a dead ear and an elderly catholic lady stand up straight as God ungnarled her arthritic back... those were times of awe... I was 16, 17, 18 — young, naive and I saw miracles, healings, incredible things but most of all hundreds of people come to faith.

And making demands of Him to do so will fall on deaf ears!

An organization using the term «progressive» in its name or mission statement will fall on deaf ears given the mess that declared and closeted progressives have made of things since the Johnson administration.

They hold that some «laws of the land», specifically, the ADA and multiple discrimination laws, do not «APPLY» to their business because «we are privately held and don't have to answer to anyone»... This isn't hear say, you understand, this came from the top of the company to my boy's almost deaf ears.

On the contrary, we who do so are in danger of becoming shrill, especially when our fellows turn a deaf ear to our warnings.

The inviolability of the institution of marriage justifies a deaf ear and a blind eye to the violation of a woman's body and spirit through torture and terror.

Also, they have turned a deaf ear to the real concerns of the public which include not merely the availability of coverage but costs, choice, and the impact of any restructuring on families and small businesses.

But they will, with justice, turn a deaf ear to embittered screeds of historical falsehood, logical incoherence, and near - hysterical execration of their past and present.

Why let unbelief, or an unforgiving spirit, or what people say of sin, stand in your way as a stumbling block... turn a deaf ear to unbelievers» (p. 66).

And Evangelicals wonder why our pleas for the sanctity of marriage often fall on deaf ears.

As the prophets had declared that in the Age to Come the eyes of the blind should be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped, so Jesus heals the blind and the deaf, and restores strength to the palsied and life to the dead.

He tends to frown upon buying a $ 35 million dollar mansion but turning a deaf ear to the needs of others.

The message which the churches attempt to communicate falls on deaf ears, not because the ears are really deaf, but because the Word of God is spoken in so strange a language or in such trivialities that it fails to be the Word of God to those who otherwise might hear it.

Of course your point will likely fall on deaf ears but thanks for compiling the list.

The book, «Silence of God» by Sir Robert Anderson sums it thusly: «If Christ was indeed divine, no person of ordinary intelligence will question that he had power to open the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf, the lips of the dumb.

Peter in any case do not attempt to sing that song, you will break the ear drums of people and turn them deaf.

Colour's five hues from th» eyes their sight will take; Music's five notes the ears as deaf can make; The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste; The chariot course, and the wild hunting waste Make mad the mind; and objects rare and strange, Sought for, men's conduct will to evil change.

Still, as it were, the world turned a deaf ear to the cry of faith.

Despite the efforts of individual bishops, the church may also be criticized for turning a deaf ear to the expressions of pain and frustration voiced by faithful women, many of whom have no desire to be ordained, who are working as diocesan social action directors, parish - based directors of religious education, parish administrators, and in a host of other critical capacities.

Still the world turned a deaf ear to the cry of faith.

(A Dutch delegate from South Africa said that the denunciation of racial discriminations would give great offense to his people, but his protest fell on deaf ears.)