Sentence examples for knowingly turned a blind eye from inspiring English sources

"The sad truth is the government knowingly turned a blind eye [to] collateral damage for their stop-the-boats policy".

But one former mayoral aide, who was later a policy adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, testified that Mr. Tremblay knowingly turned a blind eye to illegal fund-raising activities by his Union Montréal political party.

Views such as Mr Wright's and the judge's clarification that concluding that Mr Ebbers knowingly turned a blind eye to Mr Sullivan's creative accounting was enough to find him guilty carried the day.There has been none of the public sympathy for Mr Ebbers that Martha Stewart received after her conviction last year.

He equated Reverend Jeremiah Wright with Van Jones and wondered if the FBI knowingly turned a blind eye to a black militant communist.

Needless to say, the companies in question tend to dodge responsibility with bland buck-passing PR patter that knowingly turns a blind eye to oppression and brutality: "Obviously what an individual customer would do with a product once they acquire it is beyond our control".

Nor is there evidence that the Saudi ruling family, although it has close ties to the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Islam and may well have turned a blind eye to the financing of extremists, knowingly sponsored Al Qaeda.

Extremely low wages have led global brands and retailers to choose Bangladesh over China and other developing countries in recent years, but in many cases the big brands have either turned a blind eye to working conditions in pursuit of profit or knowingly taken no interest in how their clothes are manufactured.

People turned a blind eye to it.

He turned a blind eye to corruption.

So everyone turned a blind eye.

The government turned a blind eye.