Sentences with phrase «of turning a blind eye»

Know the risks of turning a blind eye.

Citing testimony from Gebremeskel and five other ex-conscripts, Human Rights Concern Eritrea accused Nevsun of turning a blind eye.

In the case of real estate, it's a matter of turning a blind eye to staggering losses, says Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

The complaint, now in North Carolina Business Court, also accuses insurance giant MetLife, which was once affiliated with Rick Siskey's financial services firm, of turning a blind eye to his activities.

One person who was unimpressed with the recommendations was former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti, who in February accused the company's HR department of turning a blind eye to her complaints of sexual harassment — sparking the massive backlash that led to Holder's investigation.

As an example, I think a lot of us turned a blind eye to the bombing of our US soldier's barracks in lebanon, 1983, as they were conducting peace operations.

Hahahaha why do so many of you turn a blind eye to these facts?

In it, I discuss Houston ISD's long and troubling history of turning a blind eye to illegal campus junk food — even after the implementation of Smart Snacks — and how continued junk food sales will only make the job of our wonderful new school food director, Betti Wiggins, exponentially harder.

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».

To say the least, this attitude of turning the blind eye is unacceptable and only serve to dent the image of EC in the eyes of the international community and some concern citizens in the country.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis accused de Blasio of turning a blind eye toward the day - to - day problems of the city, from the packed subways to the homeless.

And top network execs who worked on Rose's shows are panicking that they'll be accused of turning a blind eye to his sexual misconduct.

Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has also had to contend with criticism of turning a blind eye to reports of sexual harassment in his ranks, also responded to Cuomo's call for Kellner's resignation.

Critics have long accused Airbnb of turning a blind eye as site users routinely rent out residences as illegal hotels.

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.

Abby is weary of turning a blind eye to Ray's philandering and the unusual demands of his job, and she tries everything she can think of to achieve happiness.

Whistle - blowers knew they finally had someone they could turn to, someone who would investigate their allegations of wrongdoing instead of turning a blind eye.

I think Brenda made a decision to take them in based upon the guilt of turning a blind eye when her sister was still living.

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

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.

At times darkly humorous and devastatingly pointed, Hunt reminds us of the ulterior motives that warp the rule of law to impinge upon freedom in the name of order, and the dangers of turning a blind eye to the consequences.

Anyone now caught bird dogging by RECO can just point to RECO's record of turning a blind eye and plead that their prosecution is arbitrary and they had the right to believe that this was no longer prosecutable.

Not exact matches

But assuming that the rest of the world will continue to turn a blind eye to American profligacy is a risky bet, and it will get riskier if Congress keeps skirting the tough choices for the next 10 years.

I question, though, the judgment of legalizing with a stroke of the pen everybody who is here, because that's basically saying that we as a nation will turn a blind eye to our own laws.

In the wake of this ticketing crisis, a black market for Olympic seats sprang up, to which Chinese law enforcement reportedly turned a blind eye.

The ubiquitous success of e-commerce retailers worldwide is hardly deniable today, and enough to allow overlooking that the majority of its business models are still beset with bottlenecks in different areas - unless you refuse to turn a blind eye to this, as do the co-founders of Idealz, the latest in a string of promising startup ideas popping up in the UAE.

Turning a blind eye to the actions of competing companies in your industry is a great way to get caught off guard and you'll miss out on valuable insights that can help your company thrive.

Juan said on several occasions he personally delivered a payoff of 30 million pesos to one official to ensure that law enforcement turn a blind eye to the theft and extortion.

As long as they stayed in the good graces of the party elite and could plausibly portray their investments as being in the national interest, regulators mostly turned a blind eye to who owned what, what they were buying and how they were funding their expansion.

Turning a blind eye to the actions of industry rivals is a great way to be caught off guard.

But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.

You need only look to Uber or Wells Fargo to see what happens when you make excuses or turn a blind eye to top performers» actions at the expense of culture.

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.

In Indonesia, Uber's local staff reportedly made a number of small payments to police officers to get them to turn a blind eye to the fact that it was operating a support office for local drivers outside the registered business zones of the capital, Jakarta.

«Party leaders were so keen to win the support of newspapers that we turned a blind eye to the need to sort this issue.

It's time that we stop turning a blind eye to assault and start promoting not only a culture of prevention, but also a culture of awareness.

But being obsessed with capturing the millennial mind share, are today's marketers turning a blind eye to more obvious truths of generational marketing?

A responsible United States Congress would investigate these matters, and it speaks volumes about how invested the current Republican majority is in turning a blind eye to such a broad range of Trumpian misconduct that it doesn't even occur to anyone to wonder whether investigations will happen.

A female engineer had posted a long public account of rampant sexual harassment and the company's «bro culture,» to which Uber's HR department had turned a blind eye.

And Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apologized and then resigned last month after his management team was accused of fostering a boy's club culture and turning a blind eye to sexual harassment.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

At the same time, we can not and should not turn a blind eye to the real pressures millions of families face at the hands of globalization, technological advances and other factors.»

Schools — including famous ones — that turn a blind eye to the burden of loans should be taken out and shot.

But don't turn a blind eye to the people who are actually making a profit off of you.

Mr Farage said at the time that Mr Welby was «prepared to turn a blind eye» about the situation and highlighted that the Catholic Archbishop of Germany, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said the sex attacks «can in no way be tolerated».

Pakistani officials have been cracking down on social media dissent in recent years, and even turning a blind eye to mob violence against alleged perpetrators of blaspheming.

And then throw in all the tens of thousands of priests who are aware that Brother Philip is r@ping children but turn a blind eye.

It amazes me that Catholics are quick to rally against a Catholic conservative that advocates financial responsibilty, but turn a blind eye or even worse rally to support a liberal that advocates the killing of the unborn.

Are you honestly going to turn a blind eye to how they have abused their position of power and influence to harm people?!