Sentences with phrase «while sympathizing»

While sympathizing with the families of victims in Iba and Ikorodu, the Secretary to the State Government urged residents of the state to go about their normal businesses without any fear or panic as government has placed security personnel on red alert throughout the State in a bid to checkmate this menace.

While sympathizing with her position on marriage, I also find Ryan Anderson's argument, that religious liberty is not in itself absolutely decisive in such a case, to be compelling.

I count myself among this latter camp while I sympathize with those who remain troubled.

While I sympathize with refugees, I am not sure I understand the nature of this conflict.

I see only two — and while I sympathize with the hurt of Abused — it's one person, with a valid grudge, that is unfortunately going to keep him from being able to trust anything having to do with the church.

Trump suggested that while he sympathized with Bannon's efforts, he would try to talk him out of some of his chosen targets.

And while I sympathize with his frustrations regarding «the holes in his roads and in the county budget», for most in the community know that I, as a minority legislator, have been one of the most prominent voices in county government trying to stop financial missteps over the past few years.

And while I sympathize with many of the mass shootings that have happened at school, this is something that happens to our young people every day,» Nadine said.

You can't gently say, «Actually, let me stop you right there — it's DOCTOR So - and - so, and while I sympathize with your confusion, I refuse to further engage with you until you bestow the accurate honorific.

And while we sympathize, that doesn't equate to identifying with her in a way that illuminates us to just who that woman is whose name is the title of the movie we're seeing.

While I sympathize with fellow conservatives over the lack of public input into the adoption and implementation of the Common Core, I do agree with those teachers... who have actually read the standards and find them to be «well written.»

While I sympathize with those who seek alternatives to the current public school system, Madison Prep is not the answer.

While I sympathize with those who view this education as a daunting task, I don't see any better answer.

While i sympathize with the PLF on this issue, why not view the listing of Polar Bears under the ESA as an opportunity?

Answer: I don't know what hospital policy is for treating wounded deer, but police are on record as saying that while they sympathize with trying to save a deer during the holiday season, «driving while intoxicated will not be tolerated.»

And while I sympathize with Honan over the loss, I can't understand why that stuff wasn't backed up.

Not exact matches

While most people are firmly in one camp or the other, roughly 3 to 4 out of 10 Americans either sympathized with both sides — or with neither — on issues of whether employers should be required to provide birth control (43 %), transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice (37 %), or businesses should be required to serve same - sex couples (33 %).

I sympathize that they walk the razor's edge of doing their work with integrity while at the same time pleasing their employers.

While some natives sympathized with Kateri's new life, others reacted negatively.

Until we experience some degree of our own dereliction from the will of God even while we repeat petitions such as «Thy will be done,» we can not sympathize with Jesus» own cry of dereliction.

While she bonded and sympathized with Keitha over the ways Keitha had been mistreated, she also made sure Keitha understood that transforming her life was going to take a lot of hard work.

While nontraditional families may not sympathize with the stereotypical mom versus dad struggles, there's plenty to be said for what roles each parent takes on in the family structure.

While in the delivery room marveling at my beautiful new baby girl the doctors told me that she had down syndrome, they sympathized me and told me that it would be hard to accept her «conditions» and saying goodbye to the child I dreamed of having through pregnancy..

Anyone who has ever worked on a campaign will sympathize with your feelings about being attacked at a debate or having a door slammed on your face while canvassing.

And while Kiryas Joel voters sympathize with Republicans on social issues and appreciate the GOP's tough - on - crime rhetoric, they also belong to a community that suffers from poverty and depends on Democratic - backed assistance programs.

«While I understand the issue and SED's valid concern, I sympathize with the frustration of parents,» he said.

In an interview, Zeder, who has collaborated with Miller, sympathized with the museum's plight but argued that while the museum has presented the cuts as a solution to a short - term budget shortfall, «it seems to me counterintuitive to take measures that have a permanent impact on just the thing you're trying to save.»

Again, lower - class subjects whose attitudes toward greed had been nudged in this way became just as likely as their wealthier counterparts to sympathize with dishonest behavior (taking home office supplies, laying off employees while increasing their own bonuses, overcharging customers to drive up profits).

«While I understand and sympathize with the scientists who have decided to boycott science meetings in the U.S. as a protest, I am concerned that this boycott will impede the progress of science,» Ferguson writes in an email.

While Campbell Scott plays a hugely unlikeable character (which wouldn't be a problem if the script didn't want audiences to sympathize with him), Jesse Eisenberg is as good as always in his first - ever movie.

While it's at times hard to find Fanning likable because of how her character treats people she doesn't downplay those certain scenes in order for us to sympathize with her more.

The first hour is sluggish, detailing Tom and Isabel's courtship and ensuing miscarriages, while the latter half basically asks the audience to sympathize with a pair of kidnappers.

However, with his past record of mental instability, his complaints fall mostly of deaf ears, including those of Shaw himself, who sympathizes with his plight while also disagreeing with them.

Hedren considers this one of the most dangerous movies ever made, and while that's true it's hard sympathizing with the cast when nearly every scene looks like the finale of Grizzly Man.

While we can sympathize with her plight, we never really get a real feel for just who she is, why she does what she does, and how she manages to endure the insults and disdain she is shown on a daily basis from the men too self - absorbed to realize they are creating their own despair.

Instead of laughing at this very eccentric person, we sympathize with him, as he shows great strength and courage, while also very vulnerable and shy underneath.

While he doesn't necessarily sympathize with Hitler and his cronies, Oliver Hirschbiegel does make the fuehrer seem almost human with Downfall.

While only Republican Congressmen and Tea Party sycophants could possibly sympathize with the heinous corporations depicted in this film, that's not to say more sober - minded folks won't occasionally find fault with the group that's targeting them.

But while you can sympathize with a vulnerable, emotionally - starved 16 - year - old who falls for the sexual confidence and the romantic words of her childish husband's skeezy uncle (Dermot Mulroney), it's hard to keep that level of sympathy as her bad judgment fails to improve with time or experience.

While most of the actors fill their roles with grace and are easy to sympathize with throughout the story, it's not quite so easy to go along with them in their more comedic moments.

The film is captured in beautiful black and white as it sets the tone for the entire film while the cinematography catapults the film into a free - flowing renaissance where nature takes on a form of not just setting but a character to sympathize with and examine more thoroughly.

So while they shouldn't be sheltered them from difficult social situations, they should know that we understand and sympathize and want to help.»

The research generally tells us that, while a large majority of children sympathize with peers who are being bullied, most will not report bullying to school personnel.

I often find myself sympathizing, even empathizing, with so - called unlikeable characters, while I'm skeptical of traditional heroes.

Most women seek commonalities with other women (one complains of an ailment, the other sympathizes with a similar tale of woe) while men tend to one - up the other in a hierarchcal scramble for dominance (a guy has an ailment, so the other guy ignores it, dismisses it, or elevates his own standing).

They are as different as chalk and cheese, but a master storyteller of Rankin's caliber can draw in his audience, making them sympathize (and identify) in equal parts with the hard - charging Rebus and the taciturn Fox, all the while not missing a beat in the plotting, the setting, the characters and the ever - present battle between good and evil.

While many people sympathize with feral cats struggle for survival, they are understandably not happy to find cat droppings in their yard.

It will shake your belief in your friends to the core while enticing you to sympathize with them after they stand unmasked for a betrayal you've exposed.

While we advocate supporting indie game developers and paying full price whenever possible, we also sympathize with the plight of wanting to pay - to - play and not having the necessary funds available.

While it's hard not to sympathize with anyone whose «groin area» was severely burned by hot coffee, it's also hard to take seriously his claims that he was surprised by the fact that the coffee was hot.