Such continuous and willful blindness helped corruption to thrive and a tiny group of oligarchs gain control of the economy.

It's willful. It's intentional.

Dollar denial, that state of willful blindness in which bankers and central bankers claim not to be worried about America s falling currency, seems to be ending.

This disease causes blindness.

That blindness was repeated once again in Brazil.

Sheila Nirenberg A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

Even a glass eye can see its blindness.

Europe s political blindness, however, seems to override this fact.

Indeed, its leaders willful ignorance of the lessons of the past is criminal.

The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a willful cause of recent conflict.

We can ask ourselves, what is justice, and is justice blind, or is justice blindness?

Those who are really desperate rub it into their eyes, which often results in lifelong blindness.

Rigorous historical enquiry can save us from blindness about who we are and what we can do.

Rockstar is seeking increased damages against Google, as it claims Google's patent infringement is willful, according to the complaint.

I said, There is a special form of visual hallucination which may go with deteriorating vision or blindness.

But, worse than that, blindness to what really happened in the past can distort the development of your society.

A group of children smash stones into small pieces, risking blindness as chips of rock fly into the air.

More often, its attack on authority takes the form of willful provocations or ever more uninhibited and graphic depictions of violence.

From a Western perspective, willful confrontation makes little sense, because the EU and Russia are and will continue to be neighbors.

Such a complex operation could not occur without professional assistance from both outside and in plus large doses of willful ignorance.

Arrogance of power and blindness about reality were the two main causes for the decline of the sole remaining superpower.

Every year, vitamin A deficiency causes blindness in about a half million children some 70 of them die within a year.

They arise from a kind of blindness, combined with a strange mixture of alienation, guilt, and fear toward both Israel and America.

Recent efforts against African River Blindness, leprosy, and trachoma, backed by industrial leaders such as Merck, Novartis, and Pfizer, have also performed wonders.

Recent efforts against African River Blindness, leprosy, and trachoma, backed by industrial leaders such as Merck, Novartis, and Pfizer, have also performed wonders.

Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is the inability or decreased ability to see color, or perceive color differences, under normal lighting conditions.

And on the other end, excessive angiogenesis too many blood vessels drives disease, and we see this in cancer, blindness, arthritis, obesity, Alzheimer's disease.

The fact that North Korea's close neighbors seem unable to grasp this seems to confirm that Asian disunity is not just stupid, but chronic and willful.

That this outcome is possible despite protestations to the contrary by all involved reflects the willful ignorance and lack of imagination of Europe s heads of state and government.

The charm of tragic literature is that we feel that its heroes could have escaped their Fate but do not because of weakness, or pride or blindness.

They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

The ancient Egyptians knew that feeding liver to a person would help cure night blindness, an illness now known to be caused by a vitamin A deficiency.

They tremble at the fact that Marshall Fahim's army, the country's largest, sits in garrisons ringing Kabul. They are frustrated at the international community's blindness to their fate.

My country right or wrong is the parent of much misery. Rigorous historical enquiry can save us from blindness about who we are and what we can do.

But not only the direct results of colonialism remain relevant the indirect ones also matter. The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a willful cause of recent conflict.

The picture is no brighter in Europe, where countries' willful neglect of their military capabilities has undermined their ability to enforce the rule of law when international mechanisms break down.

and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

... help us find children who can participate in Project Prakash.) PS So, as I zoom in to the eyes of this child, you will see the cause of his blindness.

Only rarely, however, does American inspired popular culture possess this dimension explicitly. More often, its attack on authority takes the form of willful provocations or ever more uninhibited and graphic depictions of violence.

Until the Russian government releases more details about its policy toward ISIS related online content, it's hard to deny the Kremlin's double standard, which at best seems to be a case of willful ignorance.

At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.

The first two were forced upon the US, but the third was the result of a willful, deliberate decision by former President George W. Bush, taken on ideological grounds and, most likely, for personal reasons as well.

The world s governments will meet in Montreal at the end of November to plot the next steps, including specific measures that the world could adopt if the Bush administration abandoned its willful neglect of this critical issue.

NEW YORK It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful ignorance that characterize so much of the media coverage of the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

What else can we call our willful ignorance of the agony of so many in the underdeveloped world the torture chambers that litter virtually every Arab nation, the million martyrs'' in the lunatic Iran Iraq war, the thousands of state executions in China, the grotesque subjugation of women?