Sentences with phrase «government turns a blind eye»

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?

With the impact of the Panama papers pending, how the public sees its governing authority could change, as it has so far revolved around the notion that governments turn a blind eye to tax dodging.

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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.

The U.S. government has largely turned a blind eye to such practices since the 1980s, when Pres. Ronald Reagan took a hawkish approach to international trade.

Unofficially, however, unauthorized migrants found employers willing to turn a blind eye to their employees» immigration status and a government lacking the resources and the will to rigorously enforce immigration labor laws.

The king, to appease the Church, officially banned the enterprise, but then his government later turned a blind eye towards its existence.

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.

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.

It's ok to turn a blind eye to the governments funding of wars, spying, corporate welfare, wall street bail outs, millions of dollars that no one knows what happened to in Iraq?

As for the discrimination aspect, yes there is a clear issue there, especially with the way the Israeli government continues to turn a blind eye to the fanatics in the West Bank.

But steelworkers looking on will feel their jobs are being sacrificed for the sake of Chinese investment as the government continues to turn a blind eye to Chinese dumping.

Hence the phrase «turning a blind eye» - which the government has today announced it intends to criminalise.

They criticized government for turning blind eye to foreigners who have invaded the local trading market and yet are not paying taxes.

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.

In his response, Corbyn accused Cameron of turning a blind eye to the «consequences» of cuts to public services and branded the government a «driverless car heading in the wrong direction».

The Lankao government earlier acknowledged that it had turned a blind eye to the illegal orphanage, which cared for abandoned children and young adults.

COPEC believes strongly that the government has turned a blind eye to the fuel smuggling issue which if not handled properly, will affect all consumers.

How can the government say that it's all «for hardworking people» and complain about the cost of benefits whilst turning a blind eye to this?

Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.

These are serious times that require radical thinking, so it is staggering that the government have chosen to turn a blind eye to the huge amounts of wasteful and unnecessary public sector spending.

Mark - Viverito, who grew up in Puerto Rico, termed it «disheartening» that the federal government is turning a «blind eye» to Puerto Rico's troubles.

It is to be hoped that as a result of this policy, come 2015, a UK government will no longer turn a blind eye to the obscenity of the preventable deaths each year of those who can not afford to pay for the unreasonable profits of energy company executives and their shareholders.

«You can not be for ethics and good government and then turn a blind eye to the corrupt practices of [that] party.

What is happening now, as was the case with the murderous Boko Haram group then, is a government adopting a policy of appeasement, or even turning a blind eye, in a situation that requires courage to deploy the full weight of the law to crush a certain and undisguised danger confronting the country.

The practice is widespread in Sabah, the Malaysian state in Borneo, where government officials turn a blind eye to it, say the authors.

Yousuke Minaguchi, a lawyer who has represented Fukushima workers, says Japan's government has turned a blind eye to the problem of worker exploitation.

The ruling Congress Party is accused of turning a blind eye to corruption among government officials.

I'll be the first to admit that for years there was too little regulation, or actually the government turned a blind - eye to the enforcement of the exisiting mortgage regulations and laws.

Environmentalists claim the route — utilising a short - cut through the supposedly protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park — poses a danger to the delicate ecosystem, with the government turning a blind - eye to the problem.

It makes me sad that despite being world's richest, US government has turned a blind eye on this issue.

When governments accept bribes to turn a blind eye to the horrific environmental impact of tearing down forests to replace them with a single crop or, even worse, a mine or power station — this is corruption.

Invoke the law of unintended consequences from government intervention as you turn a blind eye to intended consequences.

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.

The potential for huge short - term profits has led many governments throughout the world to relax existing fisheries laws or simply turn a blind eye to shark finning.

There's nothing more redistributionist in this than your willingness to allow a scarce resource that could be administered efficiently to go unpriced, and nothing more statist in this than your turning a blind eye to the ongoing subsidies and negligence of governments to this theft.

He went on to add that indians are frequently beaten by loggers encroaching upon their reservations and that so far local police and government officials have turned a blind eye to the abuses.

The Government of Kenya has historically turned a blind eye and allowed this to happen.

But by focusing on the politically palatable sales pitch of «protecting children,» the government has turned a blind eye to the true harms of the continued criminalization of marijuana.

The blame for too many lawyers each trying to make a living off a shrinking number of clients per lawyer rests with the universities with law schools (bloating up in size and failing virtually no one for the last nearly 20 years) and the government which blithely accepts this awful waste of scarce education resources, and which turns a blind eye to the horrendous social costs of it all).

It was several government law enforcement agencies that coordinated across multiple jurisdictions on limited budgets.6 Yet, like Silk Road, some people in the cryptocurrency community likely knew the operators of the BTC - e and willingly turned a blind eye to serious misconduct which, for so long as it continues, represents a black mark to the entire industry.

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