Sentences with phrase «also had my sympathies»

But I also have no sympathy for any kind of financial campaign nor any attempt to drum up support against what is perceived as an unfair process.

I also have sympathy for schools over the issue of wasted fruit and the impact on already strained budgets.

Many US politicians and voters also have some sympathy for the situation of the 21 % of Israel's population who are Arab.

But I also have some sympathy for Sisi.

Not exact matches

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

Even leaving out the idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act of counter-cultural liberation, with which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind of thing I was taught, by teachers of impeccable liberalism, to praise.

We have also fallen away from spiritual things and have become addicted to the sensual, or worldly — to sex, music, travel, money, eating and drinking, sports, parties, politics, humour, emotional sympathy.

I love David as a person and have certain amount of sympathy for him, but I also feel persecuted by him.

The fact that many theologically conservative evangelicals are also aligned with political conservatism — a movement which has developed strong Zionist sympathies — has helped to reinforce the idea that the Jews have a natural right to dwell in Israel.

The author has a decided sympathy for the Huguenots (but also a distaste for Calvinist theology and the crusading zeal it inspired), and although he does not seem to have the same degree of sympathy for the «Catholic party,» his treatment of the seventeenth - century French Catholic revival and of Jansenism's role as a bridge by which significant numbers of leading Huguenots crossed over to Catholicism is masterful.

In his frequently quoted address to the Roman Curia of 22 December 2005, Benedict XVI made the following remarks regarding the Second Vatican Council: On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture»; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

Recent research has also uncovered a plethora of evidence pointing to the Catholic and Jesuit sympathies of most of Shakespeare's schoolmasters.

What those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our time.

Side by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering things....

The former Arsenal and England international midfield star Ray Parlour sounds to me as though he has a lot of sympathy with the frustration that has been boiling over for a large section of Arsenal fans this season, but he also sounds like he thinks we would be wasting our time with the planned protest during the Premier League match against Norwich at the Emirates this weekend.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Fuller has also received hundreds of wires and calls of congratulations — and then sympathy — from some of the more important people in racing.

Also, your sympathies are much appreciated, and I've passed on your bauble countdown to Sian.

While I understand that you want the sympathy and understanding from fellow travelers, you have to understand that we are also exhausted, and having to face a flight of hours on end with that kind of disturbance is pretty off - putting.

Previous research has also shown that men with high testosterone levels feel less sympathy or need to respond to the cries of a baby.

They expressed sympathy for the WFP and Conservative Party's argument against doing away with Wilson - Pakula, but also said they would support rescinding it for major party primaries, reasoning:

But I also have tremendous sympathy for her.

«I think they're caught not just between Trump, but also the national viewpoint that doesn't have a lot of sympathy for New York,» Catalfamo said.

But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) also welcomed the «common sense judgment», saying although it had «every sympathy» for those who lost their pensions, the EU directive did not require countries to guarantee workers» pensions in full.

Miliband's later battle with the Mail is also understood to have won him widespread public sympathy, with even political opponents coming to his defence.

The defense has also signaled that it may introduce «sympathy» evidence that Adam Skelos was adopted and has an autistic child, and has said it hopes to show that at least one of those who hired him — Anthony Bonomo, the insurance company CEO — acted out of friendship to Dean Skelos, not pressure or concern about legislation his company needed.

Even though I have no sympathy with UKIP's political stance, I find this very sad, obviously for Woolfe and his family, but also for British politics.

According to the researchers, people also had a more positive reaction to robots that looked more human - like and ones that evoked more sympathy.

We also want to express our sympathy to the women who were victimized, and we deeply regret the pain they have suffered.

In response he issued an equivocal statement expressing sympathy for the parents» point of view: «To suggest that we should limit our students» access to specifically approved textbooks and instructional materials would not only inhibit self - directed learning but would also ill - prepare our young people for the challenges that will face them in the competitive global market of the 21st century.

But there's also the traditional historical virtue of sympathy, which is to realize that the world we live in really is kind of a moment in time when we have the entire history of the universe behind us that we can explore as well.

Kate, I have every sympathy as I am also in a double bind with regard to starches exacerbating some symptoms and ameliorating others.

I think it's also safe to say that most of us also have strongly leftist and / or anarchist political sympathies as well.

This is enough to recommend the production to all players who have grown up between bandicoot and dragons, for whom «platform» is also synonymous of «color» and «sympathy.»

It is also an interesting political take on the chain of command in the military, lampooning the superior officers as incompetent fools, despite having their hearts in the right place, the film manages to successfully create sympathy for Col. Berman (Ed Harris) in that despite his general inability to do the job, he is actually well liked.

So when that assistant girl got whipped with the piano string thingy... (which I might also add caused a tremendous laugh from the audience... shouldn't we have felt sympathy?

The «Sherlock» star also has the unique ability to create sympathy for a character who could come across as cold and callous in another actor's hands.

Frankenheimer presents both sides of an issue — not only engendering extreme sympathy for Bruce Dern's psychologically unstable Vietnam War veteran who, in collusion with fellow Black September member Dahlia, is planning to wipe out an entire stadium full of people at the Super Bowl — but also critiquing American bottom - line values of the dollar: how no one would ever dream of canceling the Super Bowl even if it meant the potential death of tens of thousands.

However, director Paul Feig has proven himself not only brilliant in understanding nerd sympathies («Freaks & Geeks») but also a comedy virtuoso with movies like «Bridesmaids» and «Spy.»

The New York Times story a while back that Interstellar was sucking up all of the publicity around Jessica Chastain could have also given the film some sympathy and an urgency to vote for it.

The critics also have persistently noticed Malick's sympathy towards the aesthetics of silent cinema.

Previously Kevin Bacon has played a kidnapper (Trapped), a paedophile («Sleepers») and a rapist («Hollow Man»), but also a compromised policeman investigating statutory rape charges («Wild Things»), a man falsely suspected of rape and murder (In the Cut), and a homicide detective touched by horrific abuse in his childhood (Mystic River)-- and these past rôles, as well as the extraordinary intensity of Bacon's present performance, all play their part in shading the character of Walter so that he becomes suspended perfectly between the viewer's sympathies and suspicions.

Their comedy works because the Farrellys have not only a keen eye for but also a deep sympathy with human foible; when Jack Black's Hal in Shallow Hal scolds his overweight girlfriend's father for denigrating her looks, we get the gag that in Hal's eyes, she's Gwyneth Paltrow, and we likewise understand that many of this fat girl's self - esteem issues probably do have something to do with the amount of support she's getting from the people closest to her.

While adopting a more accommodating approach to the First Amendment than its predecessor, the Rehnquist Court has also shown a strong sympathy for state prerogatives on matters of federalism.

But they're also keen to point out they have little sympathy for the Lib Dems, who signed up to the whole free schools agenda so willingly in government.

The heart has its reasons the mind can not know, which means we come to understanding others not only through our head but also through our heart, and it is fiction that offers us essential opportunities for cultivating empathy, for feeling sympathy, and for experiencing emotional engagement with others.

I had sympathy for Ethel once I learned her backstory but I also wondered why she wasn't motivated to do more for slaves, like participate in the railroad in the memory of Jasmine.

I would also like to express my sympathy to those who have been flooded out in Australia.

There was also another issue that we uncovered during our training in the Bess and Snowflake case — it was John and Shirley's deep affection and sympathy for Bess who had been sick and ailing for a long time.