Sentences with phrase «on deaf ears before»

«At a time when general counsel are looking for alternative billing arrangements, the playing field has been leveled, so smaller firms can make pitches to big clients that would have fallen on deaf ears before,» DuPont General Counsel Thomas L. Sager told Cotts.

A similar appeal fell on deaf ears before the legislature with Ways and Means Chairman Rich Gerentine citing questionable expenditures on «travel, contractual and dueses [sic]» expenses.

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You can only browbeat a person so many times with the same message before it falls on deaf ears.

Bharara then reiterated a warning that he has issued several times before, but one that, as he put it, «keeps seeming to fall on deaf ears.»