How To Use Blinder In A Sentence
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It's as if the ISG glued blinders to their collective head, ignoring the fact that both Iran and Syria are engaging in hegemonic actions to control Iraq; that either of these countries will only support the parts of the ISG that assist in the achievement of their goals, and that they will tell us anything while they do whatever the hell they want, because they do not fear us.
Sound Politics: Re: The Israel Gambit
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He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.
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The senior team played a blinder in a division 1 game against Trumera Rovers on Sunday November 30th.
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Scrum-half Danny Brough, another player to have a blinder at The Shay, claimed the remainder to stay in touch with the leaders.
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A Washington Post opinion writer argues that King "has blinders on when it comes to home-grown extremism.
Sikhs shot in Calif. may have been mistaken for Muslims
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‘He ran a blinder on his first run of the season and the Tripleprint will be his next run, God willing,’ said Nicholls.
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Somehow, like putting blinders on a horse, he feels calmer.
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But Soderbergh is a race horse, blinders on and running hard, in the best sense of that metaphor.
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We're like those horses in Central Park who have the blinders on and don't see the cars to the left and the right.
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Altogether, by upping the ante, Blair has played a blinder, which is leaving the opposition, at home and abroad, floundering.
Leaving the opposition floundering
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Spectators can be a problem for some horses, and I often find that some horses do better with blinders on (the kind that you see on racehorses).
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They wore clothes that suggested the warm weather I had felt was just beginning, and their steeds only had blinders and saddles on.
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Leading this arduous feat is Michael Anthony Rawlins, who parades Boy Willy like a horse wearing blinders in his drive for land ownership.
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Please explain to Alan Blinder that it is not the breach of an arbitrary government machination like the "debt ceiling" that will serve as the trigger for a default.
Who's Right: Blinder or Druckenmiller on Debt Limit?
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To top it off, Boof's gently lobbed cue-end snick, instead of making a fieldsman work, went straight to Parti Boy Patel who was able to drag in what was for him, an absolute blinder.
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However, investment without a clear idea of the electronic commerce architecture being built would be akin to driving with blinders on.
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The last goal was a blinder.
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This City operates with blinders on and 'enforces' these rules that in a normal city would probably make the quality of life better in the long run.
The Daily News - News
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To say the pictures from Norway were great and that he "played a blinder" is a bit steep I feel.
Conventional Wisdom Index: Week 5
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Reg Hollinshead's youngster ran a blinder in a hot race at Beverley last time to chase home the high-class Sharplaw Star.
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He's got blinders on and I don't think he's serving the university well by continuing to beat this drum.
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As a senior at Princeton, I took graduate macroeconomics from Alan Blinder, another excellent teacher.
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‘It will force lawyers to take the blinders off,’ says Susan J. Hackett, general counsel of the American Corporate Counsel Assn.
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He cupped his hands around the sides of his face, like blinders, trying to cut out of his sight everybody but me.
THE SAVING GRACES
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Mr. Blinder's hindsight observations of the euro-zone problems mirror the foresight of many European economists who rigorously defined the criteria for an optimum currency-zone, during the formative years of the EMU and EMS. Then, as now, the political leaders attempted to upend economic law by mandating all members to meet the optimum currency-zone criteria through "Maastricht" rules, rather than creating a currency zone from the set of countries meeting the criteria.
Europe's Problem Is Not Germany's High Productivity
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Their goalkeeper had an absolute blinder and if it hadn't have been for him we would won by far more than just 3-0.
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Those who bow only at the altar of size have effectively put on blinders, not just to the nuances of bodybuilding, but to the essence of what made Frank Zane's body a true wonder in the history of physique development.
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He said, ‘Run your own race, baby,’ and saying that made me think about the blinders, you know, and not looking at the other horses gave me such a picture, such an image.
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One suspects there isn't a problem in America, no matter how knotty or profound, that Gladwell can't imagine some nifty solution to, if only we'd take off the blinders of ideology and put on the glasses of science and observation.
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So in that sense one could say that Blair has played a blinder by occupying what commentators call the ‘centre ground’ of politics.
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It was interesting because - as I said I don't write consciously - my first draft, I tend to just follow the story and there's blinders on to everything on the side.
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Somehow, like putting blinders on a horse, he feels calmer.
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`Gotta have a blinder ," he said to Richard, and patted his pockets in search of cigarettes.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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People who want to make this about Joe Wilson have their official Faux News blinders on (you can tell when they repeat catch phrases like “criminilization of politics” – that’s what you call a shibboleth).
Think Progress » White House Responds To Criticism of Bush’s Leak With More Leaks
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The heartbeat of the Portuguese team, a fighter as well as an artist, he's had an absolute blinder.
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Managers could rob you blind and probably, with the aid of electronic intelligence, even blinder.
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He puts blinders on and sees nothing but the flaws, while blithely overlooking the soul of the message, and the innocence of the delivery.
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They were worldly and farsighted when it came to brownstone quarrying, but that view was constricted by blinders to the impending changes in building technology and the image of brownstone.
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We double cast everything, on fine basis of body size, ability, height for partnering, but we have no racial blinders in casting.
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Previously trained by David Nicholls, and now with Steve Gollings, the four-year-old ran a blinder for his new handler at Newcastle last time.
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Too bad this version at the Ahmanson was mounted with blinders on.
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To get in there you have to go in by the front door or down the aiery steps; and you can't do neither without coming past Blinders at the square's entrance, and that, "finished Miss Greeb triumphantly,
The Silent House
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The recent Alan Blinder fracas is a case in point.
Matthew Yglesias » When Economists Stop Being Polite
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There are a lot of purists out there with blinders who have gotten stuck in the ‘this is the way I've always done it’ rut.
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I think Amberleigh House is just about spot on, and in the next 10 days we will put a fine edge on him, but if the race was tomorrow he'd run a blinder.
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We are finally facing reality without ideological blinders.
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The "blinder" repeats this five times, and any player not entirely out of sight the fifth time the blinder turns must change places with him, while the original "it" becomes a spectator.
Games and Play for School Morale A Course of Graded Games for School and Community Recreation
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They were a match made in a spinning, blinders-on Republican heaven, where the faithful still believe that conservative politicians and their pundits, with a little bit of faith and a lot more charm, can transform failures and shortcomings into delusory gold, and rebirth multimillionaires into everyday people who really care about the plights of their Joe Six-Pack and Soccer Mom peers.
Jane Devin: Courting the Jester: The Slippery Right's Love Affair With Limbaugh
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This is not hype, but fact: ‘Well’, the debut novel by Matthew McIntosh, is a blinder.
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Dancing Mystery ran a blinder in last year's race, being in front inside the final furlong, only to be swamped near the finish.
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Spectators can be a problem for some horses, and I often find that some horses do better with blinders on (the kind that you see on racehorses).
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Leading this arduous feat is Michael Anthony Rawlins, who parades Boy Willy like a horse wearing blinders in his drive for land ownership.
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Blinders points out, it's chanceful and insane that we ease hit equid and carriages streaming alongside horseless carriages for the recreation of tourists who couldn't intend tickets to
Planet Malaysia
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I don't know what kind of blinder these are but I have no intention of taking them off.
Steny Hoyer Answers Your Questions
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This is less a thriller than a psychological study, but because of the blinders of generic anticipation, many won't see that its director thinks far beyond those narrow parameters.
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However, investment without a clear idea of the electronic commerce architecture being built would be akin to driving with blinders on.
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Former Bolton assistant boss Phil Brown, who has shares in the same horse, European Dream, as the goalkeeper, may have joked about the racing consortium coming to an end, but he admitted 33-year-old Jaaskelainen had a 'blinder', adding: 'They're like fine wine goalkeepers, they mature with age.'
Football.co.uk news feed
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Like a horse at a race, we can have professional blinders on our eyes, limiting our explorations and our explanations to a particular ideological comfort zone.
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After a hard day and a night of it he pulled on the No.11 gansey in Puck the following day and played a blinder in a famous four point win.
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Halfway down the hill and going faster by the second, she saw a horse wearing blinders turn onto the road in front of her.
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Winner of the valuable William Hill Trophy on Knavesmire in June, Artie ran a blinder on his latest start in the Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon.
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But get there in one piece we did, and it was a blinder.
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{quoted text} guess what so called bronco fan. what makes them professional anything? the fact that somebody gave them a job. to put this all off on shanahan and his gang of thugs is to put blinders on and make believe the world is a ...
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Although the use of an a priori model greatly simplified the analysis of the 84 books, the model necessarily functions like a horse's blinders, constraining what is sought and therefore found.
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Trudi did not at all regard the verbal sketch of P. Blinders as a correct one, but though her love was blind to his pimples and ignored his stumpiness, she could not deny the spectacles, which were to her as peepholes affording visions of a blissful married future.
The Dop Doctor
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In particular, the interviews suggest, not for the first time, the need to rethink the role of punishment and confrontation in these programs with a fresh eye and without ideological blinders.
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Because we are just as blind—no, a thousand times blinder than that old man in the wheelchair.
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He said, ‘Run your own race, baby,’ and saying that made me think about the blinders, you know, and not looking at the other horses gave me such a picture, such an image.
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It appears that you would rather shlep through your existence unaware, uneducated, uninformed while wearing blinders that limits your already myopic reality.
Think Progress » Texas Tea Party candidate: ‘There are some very good arguments’ that government was involved in 9/11.
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‘Its Wavering Image’ is a story about looking and seeing; in particular, it is about the blinders that racism puts on Carson's perception.
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In the meantime, Ben is playing a blinder.
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I planned to maintain a single-minded focus on my studies, to get through and excel-with blinders on.
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Wales have played a blinder in New Zealand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Managers could rob you blind and probably, with the aid of electronic intelligence, even blinder.
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During the life of this journal, slavery has been restored by historians as a central cause for the war, and the Radicals have gone from villains to heroes, even if remaining somewhat flawed human beings with racial blinders of their own.
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Technically, it was an absolute blinder - lighting, sound balance, and music were all spot on.
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Wales have played a blinder in New Zealand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's start with an opera - Mozart does the music and Shakespeare writes the story… now that would be a blinder!
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One race is the sum total of Philharmonic's racing career to date, but he ran a blinder on his debut at Ripon to be narrowly beaten by Wanchai Lad, a winner again at Redcar on Thursday.
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Both of their families would have had to have blinders on not to recognize that Ben's first-born and Jim Archer's youngest daughter were starting to care more than a little for each other.
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Brownie's "blinder" is that it is possible that the situation in Iran might revert back to something like the one which existed in 2002 when Bush described the country as part of the "axis of evil".
A Big Stick and a Small Carrot
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I think ballet companies need to branch out to communities - we can't keep blinders on in this business.
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I planned to maintain a single-minded focus on my studies, to get through and excel-with blinders on.
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Halfway down the hill and going faster by the second, she saw a horse wearing blinders turn onto the road in front of her.
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We doesn't ingen'ally put blinders on de saddle hawses, Miss, but ef yer says so I'll tak 'em long back ter de stables an 'change de saddle headstalls fer de _kerridge_ ones, tho' it sure would look mighty cur'ous.
A Dixie School Girl
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Once again the Clonaslee NS girls played a blinder in their recent league game.
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Reviewing what actually took place this weekend, none of these explanations wears very well, except as indicators of their expositors' ideological blinders.
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To make and fit two iron blinders for air port in dining saloon.
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It means that you've got some kind of blinders on, sweetie!
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This is important because sometimes these kids have blinders on and have tunnel vision and can only see what is around them - the guys on the corner, the guys who are stealing, who are making the money.
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But in a polarized debate, both sides tend to put on blinders, playing down the risks, exaggerating the benefits and generally neglecting the practical impact of the actions they support.
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Mr Blinder is one of the authors of another popular undergraduate textbook, which he is now revising.
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She said of her reporting: I think I probably have emotional blinders on and am not thinking about it.
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Although the use of an a priori model greatly simplified the analysis of the 84 books, the model necessarily functions like a horse's blinders, constraining what is sought and therefore found.
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CueBall's Angie Hields played a blinder in the York John Smith's Ladies League division one clash with Flag and Whistle.
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It's almost like love puts blinders on people," added Martie Haselton, an associate professor of psychology and communication studies at UCLA.
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Those poor people missed an absolute blinder, we scored after four minutes and it was easy street after that - it was absolutely superb.
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That said, his replacement, Stuart Godfrey, had a blinder on the flank having been thrown into his debut at the deep end.
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Anyone without ideological blinders should be able to recognize that airport security is one area best dealt with by the public sector - where public safety, not profits, are the main goal.
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We're like those horses in Central Park who have the blinders on and don't see the cars to the left and the right.
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The patient who read his own hospital history, ‘written with medical blinders on’ exclaimed in anguish, ‘But there is nothing in here about me!’
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He has twice won over course and distance and ran a blinder when second to Binocular last season.
The Sun
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But Soderbergh is a race horse, blinders on and running hard, in the best sense of that metaphor.
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They wore clothes that suggested the warm weather I had felt was just beginning, and their steeds only had blinders and saddles on.
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A further neck back in third was High Reach, while Two Step Kid, the only three-year-old in the race, ran a blinder in fourth.
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Yep, the DH rule is my "blinder" issue, and nothing you say will ever change my thinking.
ToughSledding
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There has been an EDM with the Gardens under threat in the title; there have been countless posters, fliers and leaflets with the same misleading message; there have been two petitions one online the other on paper, again carried out with shocking misinformation; and the local paper The South Manchester Distorter have played a "blinder" in also covering up the facts and repeatedly running the over the top Lib Dem spin.
Archive 2007-10-07
