His attempt to defend his 17-month tenure before the assembly last Thursday fell on deaf ears.
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With the business community failing to back them, the tax experts' pleas fell on deaf ears.
Unfortunately, this text fell on deaf ears because an automated computer program was asking all the questions.
Jankovic's protestations fell on deaf ears and drew whistles from the crowd at the half-full stadium in Rome.
The people gathered in Zuccotti Park began their occupation as a scream of pain that fell on deaf ears.
The city came perilously close to declaring bankruptcy when its pleas for a rescue by the federal government fell on deaf ears.
But it was an appeal that fell on deaf ears in Washington, he says, as President Obama has pledged to end the war.
Calls for the restoration of the short-lived parliament in which Sheikh Jamri served, but which was dissolved in 1975, fell on deaf ears.
Alas, his warning fell on deaf ears and ironically, it was Microsoft that led the recent lobbying to investigate Google's dominance of the search industry.
Her pleas fell on deaf ears as the authorities were more concerned with the security breach that had allowed her to enter the parliament building.
Taylor Spink, founder of The Sporting News, fell on deaf ears.
Ipswich might have had a penalty between the two Coventry goals after Ben Turner appeared to bring down Lee Martin but their appeals fell on deaf ears.
In the spring of 2007, he warned the G-7 finance ministers about the grave threat to the banking system, but his words "fell on deaf ears, " he says.
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The release came hours earlier than planned after being accidentally sent to congressional staffers and trade groups Tuesday afternoon, but the warnings in the minutes more or less fell on deaf ears.
Djokovic's fourth round clash against Marcos Baghdatis on Sunday night ran into the early hours of Monday, but the third seed's request to play Roddick in a night match fell on deaf ears.
United's cries for a penalty fell on deaf ears after Goodwillie went down in the box, but nothing could prevent them starting a run of five games in 12 days with a win as they catch up on the matches they have in hand on the teams around them in the table.
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