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• Despite the children’s best efforts, their protests fall on deaf ears.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• Requests fall on deaf ears For travelers who like their bed made and towels replaced daily, figuring out how to get their request across can be a maddening exercise in code-breaking.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
• Payne knows that lessons to a losing team can fall on deaf ears.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2022
• But the family said their requests seemed to fall on deaf ears.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 2 Sep. 2020
• Loud marches upholding Roe v. Wade are doomed to fall on deaf ears.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• That doesn’t fall on deaf ears with our staff and understand probably two of the hardest places to play in the country are right there.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 30 Nov. 2021
• His appeals on Tuesday for a regional approach to to drugs did not fall on deaf ears.
  — Hira Humayun and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• As a result, experts say, Mr. Erdoğan’s appeals for further talks about the grain deal may now fall on deaf ears in Moscow.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2023
• That’s one reason calls for racial and gender equality sometimes fall on deaf ears.
  — Christine Peterson, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2021
• The board believes that an emergency fundraising campaign right now would fall on deaf ears, Bromley said.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Oct. 2021
• But these demands may fall on deaf ears because the government is in no position to offer such perks.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 4 Oct. 2020
• The message this award sends to C.K.’s victims and other female comics and comedy writers is that their cries will fall on deaf ears – and might well backfire.
  — Mona Shaikh, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2022
• If women—and other men refuse to tolerate their behavior and call them out for their actions, their comments will fall on deaf ears.
  — Shelley Zalis, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• If a tech leader isn’t making the connection from their roadmap to what really matters to the business, their update will fall on deaf ears at the executive and board levels.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• And that non-Native people can be out there to uplift our voices and amplify our story, because too often—all the time, really—our words fall on deaf ears.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
• Newsom has urged residents to rethink their holiday plans, but some think his advice may fall on deaf ears after the incident.
  — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Should those pleas fall on deaf ears, officials warn that the turning of the calendar will bring more pain and suffering to a state already reeling from a year of incalculable loss.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
• Tolerance for self-serving requests from Washington, such as demands to increase oil production in Saudi Arabia to drive down the price at the pump in Iowa, now fall on deaf ears.
  — Ben Harburg, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• But their reassurances tend to fall on deaf ears, as Hannah stays up late each night slaving over dresses her mean-spirited boss will likely dismiss with a sneer.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Mar. 2023
• So while calls to defund the police may fall on deaf ears, how state and local governments finance law enforcement, the courts and corrections is up for scrutiny in Florida.
  — Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
• Confronting Kingpin on the street, Maya has little time for his excuses, which fall on deaf ears (literally and figuratively).
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• But until Bolsonaro changes his environmental policies, their cries will continue to fall on deaf ears, environmentalists say; and this burden of riches -- the lungs of the world -- risks falling with it.
  — Gabriel Chaim, CNN, 19 July 2021
• Regardless, any such request is likely to fall on deaf ears as the U.S. military and intelligence community views these forces as some of the Afghans’ most effective, despite the litany of human rights abuses leveled against them.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• This is a tension familiar to medical professionals amid our current pandemic and climate scientists whose dire warnings about a warming planet seem to fall on deaf ears.
  — Will Bostwick, Outside Online, 11 July 2020
• And yet, calls for common sense gun reform measures fall on deaf ears in our legislature where a Republican supermajority is wildly out of step with most people’s values.
  — Elise Hammond, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Naturally, the team would like to see the entire coliseum rebuilt with modern appointments, but negotiations centered around an upgrade of the current site also appear to fall on deaf ears.
  — Zack Jones, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• But experts worry their warnings may fall on deaf ears as some Americans prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday -- where large family and friends' gatherings could help drive infection numbers even higher.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 12 Nov. 2020
• Companies and public health officials are getting creative to convince Americans to roll up their sleeves since traditional media campaigns and public service announcements are starting to fall on deaf ears.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• More substantive recommendations for rebuilding public support would likely fall on deaf ears.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
• Julia’s fears mostly fall on deaf ears, eventually highlighting how terrifying gaslighting can be, especially when compounded by a communication gap.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024