| Knowing Rory, he probably ran a little contraband on the side, but the authorities often turn a blind eye to small scale smuggling. |
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| While some turn a blind eye to any extra-marital goings-on, others are less forgiving of their partner's behaviour. |
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| Beady-eyed clients, once known to turn a blind eye to the occasional indiscretion from their agencies, no longer stand for it. |
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| Even if true, that hardly proves the point that we should continue to turn a blind eye to those who are cheating the system. |
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| It is a problem people are prepared to turn a blind eye to it because people rarely notice these sites as they are covered over. |
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| Everyone can turn a blind eye to the woundless slashes of the lying tongue, the cruel word, the baleful onslaught. |
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| We can turn a blind eye to theory, but neither God nor his book will protect us from evolution's inexorable march. |
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| At the same time, we must not turn a blind eye to what Israel's response has been in relation to the unfolding tragedy. |
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| If school children are aware, how can our Canadian government turn a blind eye to the crisis we are in? |
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| The international community should not continue to turn a blind eye to these abhorrent crimes. |
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| This can easily make them turn a blind eye to the sale of endangered species. |
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| The only thing the government did was list them and turn a blind eye to them. |
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| It's fashionable to turn a blind eye to the exponential growth of executive rewards beyond the dreams of avarice that bear no relationship to economic worth. |
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| Of course, the alternative is that the authorities turn a blind eye to drug use in brothels, and then your whole criminal justice system goes up the spout. |
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| Even if we turn a blind eye to them, we know that we depend one from each other. |
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| North Americans are too wasteful, and too ready to turn a blind eye to it. |
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| People are willing to turn a blind eye to what is going on in the interests of oil and resources. |
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| We should be able to turn a blind eye to rules which are directly or indirectly intended to protect the population or businesses active locally. |
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| There is a province that had to pick up where the federal government was behind and continued to turn a blind eye to this particular situation. |
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| The European Parliament is prepared to turn a blind eye to all these anomalies, because they are helping to build a super-State. |
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| Managers may want to turn a blind eye to night shift workers catnapping during the night. |
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| Higher education cannot withdraw into itself and turn a blind eye to the damage being done to the environment, damage that we deplore without managing fully to put right. |
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| It has simply chosen to turn a blind eye to this inequality. |
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| They occur when States wilfully transfer arms to terrorists or when States turn a blind eye to such transfers taking place on their own territory. |
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| In this connection the which turn a blind eye to such practices. |
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| How can we turn a blind eye to international trade practices that result in human rights violations that we would never tolerate within our own borders? |
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| Consequently, the Canadian and Ontario governments cannot turn a blind eye to the effects of religious arbitration upon women from minority or majority religious communities. |
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| He has repeatedly pledged to take action to stop terrorism but instead has appeared to turn a blind eye to it as a useful means of increasing political pressure. |
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| I urge you not to turn a blind eye to abortion tourism, the journeys which some women are compelled to undertake because contraception has indeed failed them. |
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| Mr. Speaker, this is about the government's judgment and willingness to turn a blind eye to conflicts of interest whenever it involves its friends. |
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| Kharin was offered money and asked not to take any steps to protect the environment, not to contact regulatory agencies, and in general, to turn a blind eye to the laws being broken by the copper-smelting company. |
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| As we encourage Canadians to mobilize around attaining the MDGs, we cannot turn a blind eye to some of the difficult issues relating to poverty, hunger, health, education, diseases and the environment in Canada. |
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| Will he, though, turn a blind eye to the fact that Housefather Brathen takes boys into the laundry and not to do any washing? |
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| In some cases, it is better to turn a blind eye to the conflict, while remaining on one's guard and thinking about what can be done subsequently to improve relations. |
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| I want to thank the members of the Academy who were bold enough to give me this award for this song which, obviously, is a song that doesn't pussyfoot around or turn a blind eye to human nature. |
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| He agreed to turn a blind eye to an invasion by sea, but made it clear that he would disavow them and confiscate all their English lands should Balliol and his friends fail. |
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