Sentences with phrase «more deaf ears»

But it does make one wonder whether what he preached fell upon more deaf ears than hearing ones.

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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.

Strengthening your relationship with other webmasters will open the door for relevant inbound link requests when future opportunities arise, and make it more likely those requests don't fall on deaf ears.

And it's even more frustrating to get a deaf ear when I try to explain why this is wrong to my friends still doing this.

The Word of God in the Bible, the voice of the Pope or the decisions of ecclesiastical assemblies — all will fall more and more on deaf ears.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

If your communication with your child feels like it is falling on deaf ears or if you struggle to be a more mindful parent, then this talk is for you!

More often I found that we made points or issued challenges, or tried to spark controversy in one policy area or another, and it has fallen on deaf ears among the broadcasters in a way I've never seen in a previous election.

He said he and his colleagues «began to call for more international assistance, but our pleas seemed to fall on deaf ears.»

Kent's reporting falls on deaf ears and angers editor Perry White (Laurence Fishburne), who sends Lane on juicy assignments instead and is more inclined to publish anti-Superman articles.

The fact that such a message is being conveyed by a no - budget Hungarian independent film rather than by more widely accessible fare is an indictment on the state of the popular cinema — but hopefully there are enough moviegoers willing to pass up the occasional blockbuster in favor of something less frivolous, that the moral of 1945 won't fall on deaf ears and empty seats.

White cats with odd eyes, one blue one yellow, are sometimes deaf in both ears but more usually have hearing in one ear only, the ear the same side as the blue eye.

Your dog will pick up on your stress, and he may be likely to bark more, turn a deaf ear to commands, and chew.

And because the same pigment also plays a vital role in the development of delicate hair cells in their ears, white Boxer dogs are more likely to be deaf.

There is so much more wrong with this article but my complaints would fall on deaf ears as you seem to be too far gone already.

More importantly, it can accurately detect dogs that are unilaterally deaf (deaf in just one ear).

They are more prone to hearing problems than any other pedigreed dog: Nearly one - third of U.S. Dalmatians are deaf in one ear, and about one in 10 are born totally deaf.

ORBIT IN Mies van der Rohe's Modernist mantra «Less is more» evidently fell on deaf ears at the Orbit In.

The so called experts should be devalued as they have no use on earth but to take up space, just as their heads are nothing more than hat racks with empty space to keep their deaf ears apart.

Two weeks ago an estimated 80 or more workers form 11 solar companies rallied on the State Capitol steps to stop this bill, however this appears to have fallen on deaf ears in the Connecticut Senate.

Mr Vaizey said that pleas from the refuge to get its location removed from Google Maps fell on deaf ears, and there was frustration that the process for getting the data taken down was not more straightforward.

However, insofar as pleas for further funding based on upholding the rule of law and the right to a fair trial appear to be falling on deaf ears, then perhaps more prosaic arguments need to be marshalled in support of that case.