Sentences with phrase «officials turn a blind eye to it»

It is unfortunate the Governor Cuomo and many New York officials turn a blind eye to the terrible living conditions, deaths and daily humiliations that exist in Gaza and the West Bank.

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

State officials turn a blind eye to segregation, exclusion and astronomical suspensions in charters.

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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.

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.

I do feel the official turning of a blind eye to the reality is not in any sense compassionate or pastoral.

While official rules forbade this practice, teachers and administrators turned a blind eye in the belief that it promoted order and also was healthy for young men who needed to learn endurance.

He had ignored the reason they were not in school and set up some official duty which would allow him to turn a blind eye to the wholehearted participation of his Christian congregation in the yearly festival of Gangamma.

Thus while the word of the law might (and does) say that citizens need certification and approval and ongoing supervision to establish an orphanage, local officials widely turn a blind eye to these legal requirements, provided an «illegal» orphanage is seen as «legitimate» (socially and politically).

Private legal practitioner, lawyer Maurice Ampaw, has lambasted the president, his appointees at the Gender Ministry and other state officials for turning a blind eye to the plight of street children.

We can't turn a blind eye to possible perjury by public officials.

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

Day trippers beware: the duty - free limit for cross-border shoppers planning a same - day return has not increased from $ 0 (though border officials have been known to turn a blind eye to goods under $ 50).

Each blind eye turned and each handshake extended to the killers at PETA strengthens PETA's ability to not only continue harming animals with impunity, but to use their increasing influence, power, and wealth to undermine the efforts of those laboring to protect the lives of community cats, pit bull dogs, and shelter animals whose killing PETA publicly champions to the American public and our elected officials.

yeah, if only «they» were a monolith, they might have official bodies capable of issuing position statements on behalf of their scientist members, they might have some sort of (I don't know) Royal Society even... they might, in short, be capable of at least a rudimentary form of self - policing, perhaps even enough to render themselves culpable en masse for the abuses they collectively turned a blind eye to, despite having the collective ability to stop them.

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.