Sentences with phrase «garner sympathy»

Unlike the nearly 50,000 Quebec nurses who were similarly forced back to work after an illegal strike in 1999 — but who enjoyed widespread public support for their wage demands, which convinced the Parti Québécois government of former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard to forego fines and reach a higher - paying settlement — Dallaire said the lawyers were unable to garner sympathy for the negotiation process discrepancies with Crown attorneys.

Lizer fakes blindness in order to garner sympathy with the judge and jury, often to the Bluth's detriment.

Denying individuals legal representation in such a manner is unlikely to garner sympathy for the SFO's work.

The Whale Wars war of words continues: Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has issued a long statement countering allegations made by former Sea Shepherd Captain Pete Bethune earlier in the week, wherein Bethune says Watson ordered the sinking of the Ady Gil to «garner sympathy» and to make good television.

Well, things have decidedly gone sour between Bethune and Sea Shepherd since then, with Bethune now claiming, in an interview with New Zealand National Radio and elsewhere that Paul Watson ordered Bethune to scuttle the Ady Gil to «garner sympathy with the public and to create better TV».

In addition, many hoarders possess the ability to garner sympathy and to deceive others into thinking their situation is under control.

These dogs all come with a sad tale designed to garner sympathy.

Cruise manages to garner sympathy even before we know the circumstances surrounding his almost destructive drive for justice.

Whether she actually manages to garner our sympathy by film's end is a sticky issue, but the question itself forces some introspection on the rage and sadness that crop up while reminiscing about broken dreams.

Where these other films blend the dysfunction with humor built from realistic situations, The Only Living Boy in New York takes a more melodramatic tone, hoping to garner sympathy for its character.

They use your manufactured reactions to garner sympathy from other targets, trying to prove how «hysterical» you've become.

Some have speculated the Egypt's army command hoped to garner sympathy for the ailing Mubarak by showing him in court.

@cnst the 30million in debt thing was largely a sob story for media to try to garner sympathy for her.

Arsenal aren't going to garner any sympathy from anyone by adopting an aloof attitude, and it won't make them any better on the pitch.

If that doesn't garner us some sympathy points, I don't know what will.

The media attacks garnered sympathy for Carson among people who were already his supporters.

[Latifah] shows both comedic and dramatic range, and garners sympathy despite the script's lack of depth.

Greg Heffley's (Zachary Gordon) junior high angst may have garnered sympathy in the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie.

Teller's performance is vital to our willingness to sympathize with a boy who is either — at worst — intentionally or — at best — unwittingly manipulating someone who's too naïve to realize that is the case, and he garners our sympathies by drawing almost entirely from the wellspring of pain that's just waiting for the right moment to show itself.

As the film gets most of its juice from the actions of its characters and not its plot, there's an expectation that whoever we watch onscreen must keep our attention and garner our sympathies.

Ethos may be posting pictures of sorry - looking dogs in hopes of garnering your sympathies, but I say fuck that.

Not exact matches

I suspect a male with this proclivity would garner far, far less sympathy.

The abuser is going to garner little or no sympathy (and rightly and justly so) for being offended by the anger from those he / she abused.

This is a typical victim mentality and sympathy garnering often displayed by Ahmadis.

Being pregnant naturally garners a little sympathy; people will typically give up their seat for a pregnant woman, people ask to help her reach for things and lift things, and more people even seem to...

And to further fortify their actions and garner public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media campaign team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and property.

Most such nationalists aim to create or reclaim a homeland; their actions are designed to garner international sympathy for their cause and to coerce the dominant group to concede to their wishes.

That's not telling a story, that's forcing a situation, and when the subject of that situation has a disability, it feels like the circumstance has been manufactured to garner additional sympathy.

But that doesn't stop director Dylan («How High») and writer Adam Herz (the creator of these «Pie» movies) from attempting to garner actual audience sympathy for him when he realizes he may have ruined his friends» wedding, thereby blowing his chance to bed Michelle's little sister Candice (January Jones).

They are well - meaning folk who want to do the right thing but who have strayed from a path of decency out of desperation, and so they garner a degree of sympathy.

It certainly doesn't hurt that both Guilbault and Drolet deliver subtle, nuanced performances (the plight of both their characters soon garners a great deal of sympathy from the viewer, something that's particularly true of Jeanne).

Now all I can offer this novelist is my sympathy and other options for promoting her book — none of which are the book reviews she's been dreaming of and imagining she could garner.

But with expected salaries between $ 150,000 and $ 196,000, they're not likely to garner much sympathy from other lawyers or the general public.

Furthermore, a community of relatively highly paid lawyers (and accountants and architects and other professionals) who cry «unfair burden» will garner little sympathy in the court of public opinion.

Or will Speaker garner less sympathy because he is a lawyer, and his conduct — which Bainbridge accurately describes as «selfish, narcissistic, and wholly lacking in regard for others» — is regarded as typical for lawyers?