Sentences with phrase «often turn a blind eye»

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.

Youth workers said that mothers (presumably in such cases there are no fathers) are «too terrified of their own children to confront them and often turn a blind eye to cash or stolen goods brought home».

Under BJP rule, persecution of religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, has markedly increased, as the party often turns a blind eye to the actions of its more militant supporters.

The label «antifascist» granted existing groups support in the mainstream, often turning a blind eye towards the questionable background.

«Another way of saying this is policy makers often turn a blind eye to impermanent settlements.»

Despite anti-bullying laws and policies across the country, adult leaders at schools often turn a blind eye.

Yet people often turn a blind eye to family violence where they would not tolerate an assault in a public place.

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«The police turn a blind eye to marijuana quite often because they really don't believe it's a serious crime.

Though the past 20 years has allowed an unfathomable amount of discovery, large portions of Christianity have often either pushed back or turned a blind eye to it all.

Students often prefer to buy these items rather than eat in overcrowded cafeterias or go off campus, and the fundraisers are so lucrative that some principals not only turn a blind eye to them, they are rarely deterred even when TDA fines the school for a violation.

And we turn a blind eye to the fact that the fashion and beauty industry often feeds into our insecurities and spends a lot of marketing dollars telling us that we're not enough.

The thing with patching over things, and turning a blind eye, is that often the underlying holes are still there.

It seems to me that we spend so much of our mental bandwidth focusing on the obvious hits, the looming presence of upcoming blockbusters that permeate our cinematic consciousness, that we often find ourselves turning a blind eye to the underdog, the films with budgets and name recognition that can't quite compete with their titanic competitors.

Considering how often trained lawyers file deficient document that I so often point out when I was the SRL and judges just turn a blind eye.

I also understand the value of discretion and ethics; turning a blind eye to what we see is often necessary in this line of business.I am eager to find out where I can go with Happy Hour Customized Cleaners.

Lofty aspirations, repeated often, without a snowball's chance in hell of ever being realised because of the stubborn refusal (or possibly even the convenient blind eye being turned) to the fact that there is a clear lack of capacity to deliver - both in human terms and in terms of the financial inputs.