Particularly striking in this regard is the utter blindness of the SPLC to the hatemongering in which Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist organizations in this country regularly engage.
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".
Unfortunately, today we see that the depraved moral blindness of the classroom has brought about a situation where political leaders cannot recognize the moral depravity of the international community.
Cataracts are one of the most common causes of blindness in the world.
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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.
Diabetic complications of the eye are one of the leading causes of blindness.
The reason is that the number of students refusing to state their race has jumped from 5.1% of the freshman class to 14.3%, a heartening sign that the doctrine of race blindness is at least catching on among the young.
Prof Pete Coffey of the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, who is researching the use of stem cell treatments for blindness, said the decision was "devastating".
The sustainability of their own community that has embraced moral blindness in the name of moderation and sophistication will be called into question.
The sustainability of their own community -- that has embraced moral blindness in the name of moderation and sophistication -- will be called into question.
The mayor said he suspended payment of blindness benefits on the island at that time, with the exception of those who could provide proof from a second doctor.
The cause of eradicating needless blindness among India's destitute had fired the imagination of Aravind's founders, led by Dr. Nam's late brother-in-law, the charismatic Govindappa Venkataswamy, or Dr. V.
The best we have so far is, as was noted by Andy McCarthy, the former, highly accomplished federal prosecutor and author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, in his column at National Review Online, an after-the-fact statement by Ron Noble, Interpol's Secretary General.
One was Visudyne (verteporfin), the first drug treatment for severe forms of macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.
Mr. Brennan, to the contrary, is the incarnation of willful blindness.
Because of the observed benefits of treating river blindness, infected people agree to take the medication despite the side effects, Katabarwa said.
On its surface, "Sacred Hunger" is about the 18th-century Atlantic slave trade, but his larger subject was the marketplace in humanity, and the willful blindness and barbarity of men who put profit above life.
Afterward, he and other veterans started the Seva Foundation, dedicated to identifying and treating the causes of blindness in poor countries.
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.
"Carnegie Mellon is one of the very few places that can both test for face blindness and perform the brain imaging in our state-of-the-art imaging center, " Behrmann said in a press release.
An examination of the unique eyes of skate (ray fish) led to advances in combating blindness, the horseshoe crab was crucial in developing a test for bacterial contamination, and sea urchins helped in the development of test-tube fertilization.
That collective blindness on the part of the business press, though, may have been inevitable.
Normal-tension glaucoma is a form of the disease which leads to blindness without the usual increase in pressure inside the eyeball.
Corporate complacency, in turn, leads into corporate blindness, the failure of management to see that their markets reach saturation or are undermined by alternative products.
Such political correctness, or willful blindness up the chain of command, doubtless caused Hasan's colleagues to keep silent about his alarming beliefs, lest they be punished for expressing concerns about them.
They bespeak a blindness on the part of the Obama administration to the wellspring of the vast majority of violent attacks to which we and our freedom-loving allies have been subjected in recent years: the theo-political-legal code the authorities of Islam call Shariah.
Part of the issue is that the benefit of taking insulin is so big--preventing blindness and organ damage--that even a small long-term cancer risk might be acceptable.
We must analyze in greater depth the mechanisms of a blindness that may, if we are not careful, perpetuate the Western "decline in courage" denounced in his time by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, but which we thought belonged to the past.
On the face of it, it can be argued that the Western media's willful blindness towards Islamic Jew-hatred and its influence on world affairs are part and parcel of the Western elite's collective refusal to recognize and contend with the implications of the phenomenon.
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