Example sentences of "turn a blind eye " in BNC.
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| 61 | In a report published on Sept. 18 , the human rights organization Amnesty International stated that it was time that the United States and the international community stopped " turning a blind eye to the flagrant human rights abuses committed by the Mexican government " . |
| 62 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 63 | Macbeth , for example , asks us some very difficult questions about ( amongst other things ) the relationship between power and sexuality , about acquiescence in the face of evil and turning a blind eye to things we 'd rather not know about . |
| 64 | The referee was a complete twat Roger Dilkes , a miserable midget who contrived to spoil what was already a poor game by turning a blind eye to West Ham 's negative game and penalising Leeds wherever possible . |
| 65 | Environmentalists claim that the Russian authorities , desperate for foreign investment , are turning a blind eye to the logging companies ' many breaches of the country 's nature protection laws European 22-25 October |
| 66 | The authority plans to stop turning a blind eye to disability and war pension income when calculating community benefits charge and housing benefits . |
| 67 | It has accused the RUC of ‘ turning a blind eye ’ to the problem in Nationalist areas . |
| 68 | Now that sort of policy does have its problems because some people would say that is allowing people to break the law , it 's turning a blind eye to people who are breaking the law . |
| 69 | Rugby , whose spectators are a fairly respectable lot , turns a blind eye to fighting on the field . |
| 70 | The label also turns a blind eye to the live tapes released by the band . |
| 71 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 72 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 73 | Though mercy killing is still officially illegal , the law turns a blind eye to the 2.4 per cent of Dutch deaths which are accounted for by it . |
| 74 | The government also orders , or turns a blind eye to , more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet . |
| 75 | The rules stipulate clubs must field the strongest team available , but the FA turns a blind eye as the top teams clearly do not do so . |
| 76 | Changes in the law to this effect have taken and are taking place , while jurisdiction turns a blind eye towards much which would once have been rigidly repressed . |
| 77 | There is no doubt that officialdom in Brussels turns a blind eye to anti-competitive behaviour by state-owned industries in a way that it is not prepared to do for private companies . |
| 78 | Sometimes the state turns a blind eye . |
| 79 | They both did a lot of lobbying , which you 're not supposed to do , but the college turns a blind eye to it . |
| 80 | The alternative if the British public turns a blind eye , she believes , is the prospect of a dark day when , because of the colour of their skin , two young Middlesbrough-born and bred women may not be allowed to reach the safety of their home . |
| 81 | But as long as these extra-curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye . |
| 82 | Dreaded teacher turns a blind eye |
| 83 | We continue to turn a blind eye to the architecture with no name , preferring instead to attack the buildings that future generations will admire . |
| 84 | ‘ It is hard to turn a blind eye to something so obvious and widespread , ’ wrote the author of a forestry text in 1962 . |
| 85 | This has encouraged teachers to turn a blind eye to LMS in the hope that somehow , somewhere , someone will do something to protect them and their pupils from ‘ it ’ . |
| 86 | As British economists know only too well , it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion . |
| 87 | Next month RW&P talks to the main men and gives an in-depth look at the Italian scene and asks whether rugby can afford to turn a blind eye . |
| 88 | Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son 's misdemeanours , which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth , Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu 's bad behaviour to Valentin 's modest and retiring example . |
| 89 | He was a taciturn , curiously detached individual who seemed happy to turn a blind eye to any of his tenants ' ’ goings-on' , as Eleanor called them . |
| 90 | In 1931 Japan resorted to force and occupied Manchuria , but the West , absorbed in its own problems , was able to turn a blind eye to such encroachments within the confines of East Asia . |