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How to use turn a deaf ear in a sentence

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Unfortunately, these same people can turn a deaf ear when forced to listen to someone else's point of view.
You turn a deaf ear to all our arguments: this is absolutely incomprehensible.
Now an AIIC-led coalition of staff and freelance conference interpreters is making it harder for them to turn a deaf ear.
He would turn a deaf ear to actors' pleas for retakes or technicians' requests for more setup time.
Unfortunately, although the minister has been made aware of this problem several times, he has chosen to turn a deaf ear.
If they do, Congress, particularly the moderate Republicans, should turn a deaf ear.
It is undeniable that the 44th President will not be able to turn a deaf ear to their expectations during his term in office.
He did not turn a deaf ear to her nostalgia, like my father, or listen uncomprehending, like me.
They could plead that the change is just a technicality, but their lenders may turn a deaf ear.
We cannot turn a deaf ear to the call for reform throughout the United Nations system.
It appears that access is difficult, and that institutions sometimes turn a deaf ear to employee requests.
We don't get many shots at talking about this stuff before the literary marketplace starts to turn a deaf ear.
The Minister of Finance has decided to turn a deaf ear to the pleas from those on social assistance and the least well off members of society.
Will the government continue to be insensitive and to turn a deaf ear to these demands?
The European Commission has decided that it would prefer to turn a deaf ear to the reports of persecution that are emerging from Ethiopia.
Can we use the economic crisis as an excuse once again to turn a deaf ear to the clamour for freedom and justice reaching us from those who are toiling only to survive?
Our government will also not turn a deaf ear to the plight of our fellow Canadians in our aboriginal communities and we will not comfort these Canadians with the false hope of empty promises.
The Treasury Board continues to turn a deaf ear to repeated requests by the Auditor General and parliamentarians demanding better accountability by foundations.
The international community criticized Milosevic on several occasions, but he decided to turn a deaf ear to the appeals of the international community.
The government should turn a deaf ear to those urging it to do otherwise.
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I can turn a deaf ear to enticements the most alluring, and sounds the most insinuating.
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