It takes a perverse blindness to propose more trade in the face of these statistics.
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These statements make clear the debilitating impact of Israel's self-induced strategic blindness to our neighbor in the south.
Even worse than his willful blindness to the historic, legal and moral justifications for Israel's rebirth, was Obama's characterization of Israel itself.
Lawyers who represent employers say that could include hundreds of possibilities from blindness to deafness to the less apparent such as asthma or mental illness.
However, Mr Cook, the businessman who commissioned the report, said the assessment was in response to the government's "blindness to the reality of the situation".
The approval comes amid a flurry of research showing broader promise for the approach in a range of disorders, from a rare form of blindness to hemophilia to heart failure.
Washington portrays Microsoft as a juggernaut, but the software giant is hardly invulnerable, a case in point being its blindness to the significance of the Internet a few years ago.
This is a guest post from my friend, mentor and co-author, Jim Stovall, who has overcome blindness to become a best-selling author and source of inspiration for literally millions.
As in domestic affairs, there is too often a blindness to consequences, a wishful thinking about human nature, and the same refusal to pay the price for maintaining our civilization.
Uneven and ineffective application of military power, vulnerability to mass terrorism and natural epidemics, blindness to the rise of a great competitor: matters like these, that may seem remote and abstract, are seldom as remote and abstract as they seem.
On the basis of the facts and evidence before the committee, we conclude that, if at all relevant times Rupert Murdoch did not take steps to become fully informed about phone-hacking, he turned a blind eye and exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications.
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And the drugmaker has consistently warned that off-label use can be perilous, pointing to reports of serious infections and blindness traced to contamination in vials during repackaging, an issue that temporarily led the US Department of Veterans Affairs suspend use ( look here).
Unbeknownst to them, he had what is known as Usher Syndrome, which also causes gradual blindness due to Retinitis Pigmentosa starting at birth.
Those in the US suffering from blindness due to retinis pigmentosa (RP) will now be able to regain some vision bionically for the first time ever, thanks to Second Sight's Argus II retinal prosthesis.
Eye drops designed to lower cholesterol may be able to prevent one of the most common forms of blindness, according to US researchers.
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What is worse is what their own morally relative blindness causes them to do.
Diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney disease, heart disease or amputations, and it can be fatal.
Too little insulin leads, over a period of years, to blindness, kidney damage or heart disease.
Over 57, 000 people in the UK receive a Disability Living Allowance due to blindness.
Poor eyesight gives way to blindness, and his days as an artist are over.
Normal-tension glaucoma is a form of the disease which leads to blindness without the usual increase in pressure inside the eyeball.
As well as fighting off cancer and heart disease, vitamin A has also been linked to preventing macular degeneration, and eye condition that can lead to blindness.
Both diseases are progressive and usually lead to blindness.
And it's interesting, you talked about in your book an exercise that you did in school where you were asked to go through - what was it - King Lear and one other play to look for all of the references to blindness and eyes.
By choosing this route, it effectively committed itself to strategic as well as political blindness since it was forced to claim - wrongly - that there was no difference between Madrid and Oslo or between Wye Plantation and Camp David.
Diabetes can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, kidney failure and blindness, according to the CDC.
In 1982, he cofounded the nonprofit firm ORBIS International in an effort to treat blindness in developing countries around the world.
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However, this is a stunning piece of research that may in the distant future lead to transplants in humans to relieve blindness.
Yet the odds of life-long disability such as cerebral palsy, blindness or being unable to walk, has not changed, at about one in five.
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