Sentences with phrase «so turn a blind eye»

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You may become irrationally optimistic about what the future holds, so much that you turn a blind eye to portending challenges.

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

«He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn — and I would heal them.»

This church has turned a blind eye to so many vile things — but birth control, whoa, now there's a sin.

So is it your view that if people are tortured or killed for their religious beliefs that if one claims to be Christian we are to turn a blind eye to this injustice?

Hitler's problem with the Pope was that, while the Pope himself agreed not to help the Jews, he turned a blind eye to priests who were doing so.

Are we to turn a blind eye to sin so more people will feel comfortable in their sin?

I appreciate it would be wrong to turn a blind eye to all the bad and not so good things the Church does, the wrong behaviour in the name of Jesus, but why oh why do you guys on these blogs continually go on and on about them.

John 12: 39 The reason why they were not able to believe is that again Isaiah said: 40 «He has blinded their eyes and has made their hearts hard, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn around and I heal them.»

While you are harping on Romney and the whole money thing let's just turn a blind eye to the man who supports killing babies cause after all they aren't babies until they're born so this justifies murder.

After having for so long turned a blind eye to the guilty, bishops are now, as though it were some kind of compensation for their negligence, turning a blind eye to the innocent.

40 «He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn — and I would heal them.»

Sadly, so many Christians have turned a blind eye to the plight of women, both in our own communities and abroad.

Media talks large about people having phobias against Muslims despite causing so much damage to this world, but turns a blind eye towards murders of Christians.

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

MLB turns a blind eye towards an alarming number of criminal offenses and behaviors, but multiple teams have outright removed Heimlich from their boards, so maybe they've finally found a line they won't cross for the sake of winning.

men what is happening to my boy Jack Wilshere my player.I wish you can stay injury free so that the world can see you are not average.Now i pray that injuries be far away from you.We need you arsenal need you.Let those who turn a blind eye on your abilities continue to do so but when the right time comes they will be ashamed for we all know how you once destroyed teams with your skill.For i know what you are capable of.Hold on to your faith and do not linger for you will get there one day.These times will make you stronger and will make you a brilliant captain.

I didn't see any consequences or investigations at UM for stonewalling, so until you start fixing your own house, you might try being less smug about UM being better at turning a blind eye.

We are so predictable I tell you its hard to turn a blind eye to obvious things.

Why are we going to turn a blind eye to it when people are so quick to point out that those same injuries derailed their careers?

We turned a blind eye to Ince who did nothing for us so maybe we should turn a blind eye to Owen and make him an exception to the rule that a player should be disowned if they dare to play for United?

So there are messes I am turning a blind eye too (trying to at least) as visions of my new kitchen keep me sane but the holidays is a sucky time to do it.

Here in HISD, veritable «food courts» are set up at lunch at various high schools to sell junk food as fundraisers, and principals not only turn a blind eye, they're enthusiastic about them due to the revenue that is brought in — so much revenue that hefty fine from the TX Dept. of Agriculture is just the cost of doing business.

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.

I'm thinking the Act can't be evaded that easily and it only seems so in this instance because all parties are turning a blind eye to allow war widows to get paid.

The de Blasio administration is turning a blind eye to fraud in its new city ID program just so the mayor can tout it as a success, inside sources told...

Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.

These are serious times that require radical thinking, so it is staggering that the government have chosen to turn a blind eye to the huge amounts of wasteful and unnecessary public sector spending.

So London turns a blind eye to institutionalised corruption, and allows Labour politicians and thousands of hangers - on to fill their boots.

Brands like Zara and H&M are so easy to turn a blind eye over their business practices and what the real cost of the clothing is, when the cost to us is low.

Online dating scammers pretty much work around the clock, so they get really good at coming up with these sob stories that are hard to turn a blind eye to.

Sure, it's completely unrealistic, but it's so fun, you're willing to turn a blind eye.

But Cal has unprecedented access to the congressman, so apparently his superiors, including the majestic Helen Mirren, are willing to turn a blind eye.

It's hardly surprising that a blind eye is turned, in general, to the gay subtext that is so clearly filling Train's gas tank, though a short appreciation of the film from M. Night Shyamalan (in his open - collared raspberry shirt and his emo half - mohawk) comes frustratingly close (filing all of Bruno's eccentricities under the umbrella heading of «insane» in a way that Hitchcock never succumbs to).

Tempted though we have all been to up and leave it all behind at some point, reason has persuaded us that responsibilities must be minded and so it's difficult to applaud one who turned a blind eye to those same considerations at the expense of future potential and the heartache of loved ones.

For putting a human face on the civil war in Rwanda, and for all future wars in remote regions filled with people who may not look or speak the same language as the rest of us, Hotel Rwanda more than succeeds in relating just why it is so important to not turn a blind eye to events happening in other countries.

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.

The story is completely ridiculous and wafer - thin: in his first of many oaters, Flynn is a morally grey buffalo herdsman who eventually stops turning a blind eye to Bruce Cabot's evil doings in Dodge, yet the film has so many show - stopping sequences, the plot becomes unimportant.

I certainly agree with the comment above and there have been many gaffs that seem to have been made by Michael Wlshaw over the last year or so but the government turns a blind eye to his comments.Surely there needs to be a royal commission into the state of teacher recruitment as well as the true state of education in the UK?

Wisconsin has sunk so deep into this unaccountable world that our voucher program turns a blind eye toward discrimination in voucher schools and forces the public to pay for such discrimination.

Why does the OPSB and its 6 - figure salaried Deputy Superintendent of Charter Schools turn a blind eye to what is on the books (and written in the charters) for its charter schools whose founding members have gone so far has to define administrative structures, credentials, and pay scale for its certified / licensed (d / b / a EDUCATORS) personnel?

Surely the outcome will be similar to the unfolding debacle in D.C., but for now most are willing to turn a blind eye so long as they can tout rising graduation rates across the Sunshine State.

I don't think so, but it also shouldn't turn a blind eye to the Germans.

So why is the Schumer interfering and suggesting that the DoJ should turn a blind eye?

So we choose our massively discounted books and click on «Buy now with 1 - click» and we turn a blind eye to the ethical consequences of the act of consumption.

To do so would be to turn a blind eye to the variation and spirit of experimentalism that thrive at the fringes of gaming culture beyond the realm of the cliche - riddled military shooter.

«So we have to sometimes not turn a blind eye, but keep our eyes on what we're trying to do, not on what is being done to dismantle our efforts.»

I can't stand how people turn a blind eye to such a monumental issue, especially when there are so many available and free resources to answer any question you may have about Climate Change, and what you can do to lessen your footprint.

Or are we so desperate for condescending participation from any member of the consensus crowd that we have to turn a blind eye to stonewalling and duplicity?

But just as Obama's climate - change cronies turn a blind eye to factual weather data, so do they ignore the need for reliable access to energy.