Sentences with phrase «largely on deaf ears»

But because this report's constructive criticisms seem to fall largely on deaf ears in Sacramento and in many courthouses around the state, this year's look at the West Coast's perennial Judicial Hellhole will pragmatically limit its focus to an armful of the state's civil injustices, including precedent - defying state supreme court decisions, the Private Attorneys General Act, Prop 65, food and beverage litigation, innovator liability, the California Environmental Quality Act's impact on affordable housing, courts» expansions of public nuisance law and natural disaster - chasing personal injury lawyers, among others.

Until Mr. Silver's arrest, many concerns about state politics had fallen largely on deaf ears.

Protests from a so - called «national union of ministers», who have complained they can not countenance fresh cuts, appear to have fallen largely on deaf ears.»

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This message has largely fallen on deaf ears at the highest level of state government, who continue to believe all is well.

Critics say these funds are potentially dangerous and untested through a crisis, but the complaints have largely fallen on deaf ears.

For years, economists warned that the annual rise in consumer spending wasn't a permanent condition, but those concerns largely fell on deaf ears.