Sentences with phrase «turn a blind eye at»

In early 2012, Best Buy founder Richard Schulze resigned from the company amidst his role in turning a blind eye at a company scandal involving a top executive's shady «personal conduct» (i.e. an affair) with a certain 29 - year - old female employee.

You represent the hypocrisy within any and all religions, and that is the uncanny ability to turn a blind eye at the filthy corruption that you subscribe to.

Toshiba representatives have not yet announced AT200's price or when it will be released, but from what we have seen, we can conclude that this is a fairly finished product which might be on the market soon, and hopefully with a price which might help purchasers turn a blind eye at details that have not been as polished as with other 10 - inch tablets.

You might also bribe the judges to turn a blind eye at the clock, but you need to get that far first.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.&raquAt 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.&raquat the hands of globalization, technological advances and other factors.»

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».

We need to look at abuse in all areas and not permit them and not make excuses and turn blind eyes, as this happens near and far and also in our backyards.

by that thought we should hate the governments and business world wide almost everyone turned a blind eye to the Nazis including at the time The USA, England, France, Canada, No scientific foundations are know to ahve spoken against them at the time.

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.

«There's a lot of things going on at the moment but we have to turn a blind eye to that and concentrate on what we are here to do.»

As for Tagliabue, his waving off of the concussion issue in the»90s, and the league's turning a blind eye to head injuries for much of his tenure, no doubt damaged his candidacy for joining in Canton the very men at risk for long - term impacts of brain trauma due to the sport.

His most notorious critics simply turned a blind eye to the positives from his performance at Old Trafford.

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.

I will turn a blind eye to what others choose to feed their kids on an individual basis, but if there is some policy at the school that demands that what another parent sends must be served to my child, then there needs to be some kind of standard to which those offerings are held.

I've seen a mother go from a «turn a blind eye» enabler to someone who at least gives her children some kind of support once she divorced the father and took out a restraining order against him.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

This they allegedly did by encouraging — or at least turning a blind eye to — undercover officers having intimate relationships with members of groups under surveillance.

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.

George suggested that «a management culture which seems to be practised in the arts of management babble has been created which heaps unrealistic pressure on the frontline, and yet at certain tiers of management a blind eye is turned to the consequences of the unrealistic pressures which are placed on that front line».

Schneiderman said last night that «it should be clear at this point that my office and other prosecutors are never going to turn a blind eye to these abuses any more.»

The former roommate said that they called police «in the beginning but it was very clear he had connections to everyone in law enforcement in Cohoes and a blind eye was turned at every call.»

There's no question and I don't know how anybody in any elected office can turn a blind eye to the 4,700 people who stayed with us at WIN last night, mothers and children — 70 percent of the people in shelter are families with children.»

That is a speaker who, at best, turns a blind eye to sexual harassment, and at worst, plays an active role in enabling such behavior, ensuring that it goes unpunished and unpublicized.

«He's racked up 600 buildings violations at his properties, exposed children to lead paint, and turned a blind eye to rampant drug dealing that the City of New York had to sue him to stop.»

In the Chair he turned a blind eye to all but the most outrageous behaviour; more than once at the start of business, Speaker Bernard Weatherill had to reprimand backbenchers Dean had struggled to control the night before.»

«The horrific shooting at a school in Florida once again has this nation asking how Congress can in good conscience continue to turn a blind eye to the dangers of gun violence,» Cuomo said.

It is true that the hairdressers were breaching licensing laws but such a custome was widespread at Christmas and traditional a blind eye has been turned.

Enck said that in her final speech to her staff at EPA, before she resigned to become the visiting scholar at Pace University Law school, she urged them to be respectful — but to «fight back internally» if they are asked to not enforce environmental laws or «turn a blind eye» to evidence of drinking water pollution, and then decide what they should do if their efforts don't succeed.

Enck says in her final speech to her staff at EPA, before she resigned to become the visiting scholar at Pace University Law School, she urged them to be respectful, but to «fight back internally,» if they are asked to not enforce environmental laws or «turn a blind eye» to evidence of drinking water pollution, and then decide what they should do if their efforts don't succeed.

Personally, I can turn a blind eye when I have a remarkable product, and at an incredible price.

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.

If I am to turn a half blind eye to the stated age, at least can the photos be current?

You have to turn a blind eye to the fact that chimpanzees keep jumping through glass windows without hurting themselves, but at least the film never feels like Jumanji, which would be an upsetting change of tone.

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.

Essentially, ed schools and education researchers are turning blind eyes to the effectiveness of teacher training at the end stage.

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

The campaign money from charter school advocates has been flowing into Malloy's political operation at record levels while Malloy's administration has been turning a blind eye to the fact that charter schools are violating Connecticut laws, regulations and policies.

Our current education system turns a blind eye regarding accountability, people get paid whether they perform well or not - at Tax payers expense.Let us get on the same page, monopoly of the education system by certain groups is no longer viable or economically sustainable.

It's part of the job when you're a hunter and it's hard turn a blind eye when people are suffering at the hands of the supernatural.Vampires are picking off college kids and turning them to grow their ranks.

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.

If there was any doubt that the bureaucrats in charge of protecting animals in «shelters» and from PETA at the Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (VDACS) will always turn a blind eye to abuse and killing, that doubt is now gone.

Whether that be blogger + brand contracts, blogger + photographer contracts, or florist + bride contracts, my peers were constantly struggling with either not having a contract at all and turning a blind eye to it or creating a makeshift contract that they assumed would suffice in each particular work relationship.

And when you make friends at any level, be it at work, in politics, religion, or any aspect of society that involves people supporting each other, while not being at direct odds, there is always the risk of someone wanting to turn a blind eye to the obvious.

Everyone turns a blind eye to it, maybe reporting on some of the big numbers its throwing out, but at the end of the day I don't believe in a game that charges what CIG is charging when every other game on the planet can be bought at retail for less than $ 100 with everything included.

At the time, Disney Infinity was the first giant to fall in the toys - to - life community, and while the writing was all over the walls, most of us wanted to turn a blind eye to it, keeping hopeful that things would turn around.

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.