Sentences with phrase «garner sympathy for»

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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...

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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?