Sentences with phrase «had the sympathy of»

Age 40 isn't going so well, but he has the sympathy of a whole lot more people than he would have a couple of years ago, and an amazing career to look back on.

Their campaign groups have managed to get through to the Labour leadership, having long had the sympathy of the Labour left that now dominates it.

Donna, Andrew, Peter and other members of the family, you have the sympathy of everyone in this room.

Not exact matches

It's unclear what precisely about Boyle's background made him nervous around US officials, but media reports have noted that Boyle was once married to Zaynab Khadr — the sister of the Canadian - born former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr — who has expressed sympathies with Al Qaeda.

However, despite all of the self - inflicted problems with the million - jobs plan, I still have a great deal of sympathy for the Tories.

The trick when it comes to increasing your empathy is to challenge yourself to see the perspective of those with whom you have less natural sympathy — perhaps even with your enemies.

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

If you've had enough of the market's ups and downs this year, spare some sympathy for Westport Innovations» shareholders.

«To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.»

Her chief speechwriter, Dan Schwerin, emailed Podesta, communications director Jennifer Palmieri and others in February 2016 to say that, as conceived, the speech would demonstrate Clinton's «sustained and comprehensive commitment» to improving race relations and her lifelong sympathy toward the plight of minorities in the U.S.

Not that they don't have my sympathies: It can be frustrating when you're trying to stand out among so many other vendors, especially when it feels as if everyone has thought of something more creative than you.

«I have sympathy with the idea of increased risks if buybacks were to dry up,» Sonders told us.

A 20 - year - old Ohio man, James Fields, said to have harbored Nazi sympathies, was charged with murder, malicious wounding and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

And though I'm a strong critic of such practices, I do have a degree of sympathy for the person who has spent, say, 20 years believing that homeopathy really works, and «seeing» it help thousands of people (a fact that can readily be explained by the operation of a whole range of well - documented cognitive biases).

You have the option of going a better path; work sincerely to understand people's wants and needs, and genuinely sympathize with them rather than artificially working to mimic that sympathy.

And while some viewers — and her co-host — occasionally accuse Lang of having left - leaning sympathies, she says it has more to do with counterbalancing O'Leary's conservatism than growing up in a Liberal household.

In lieu of sympathy flowers, the Heinz family has asked that donations in Austen's name be made to the iGem Foundation for the advancement of synthetic biology.

She commented that the Statue of Liberty would hang its head in anguish if it could — and that expression of sympathy for the refugees got her suspended from the news network for two weeks.

They get a very small portion of it directed at them, and I have sympathy for that.

Drew Dowdle noted that he was surprised that he ended up having «a lot of sympathy» for the FBI.

While I have infinite understanding, I have little sympathy because one of the best tests of someone's executive skill is their ability to control their time and set their priorities.

Then, as now, schemes that would have allowed able - bodied men to live off the hard work of others were as apt to prompt moral outrage as moral sympathy.

The problem of tax evasion in Greece has been pointed out many times during the debt crisis: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, got into hot water over the summer with her comments that she felt more sympathy with children in Africa than tax evaders in Greece.

Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.

Shares of mall companies fell this week in sympathy with the announcement by Sears Holding Corp. that it would close as many...

A lot of young people that I know in Beijing — high school and college students, young professionals, musicians, etc. — were horrified by the violence that occurred in Paris and very eager to express a real sympathy for Parisians, which they did in the ways that young people express themselves today, via smart phones, social media, and all the other things that wouldn't have occurred to me.

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.

His silence has not won him sympathy from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, the judge overseeing the case, who earlier this month said Waymo has «one of the strongest records I've ever seen» showing that Levandowski took the files.

Although I have zero sympathy for Trump, I am puzzled by the CNN and MSNBC pundits» apparent unanimity that Giuliani's statement that Trump reimbursed Cohen was an admission that Trump lied, when he previously said he had not known of the Daniels payoff.

I do not have one modicum of sympathy for this position.

Public sympathy for the position of the dairy farmers has been strong and steady across surveys.

I have a soft spot for Hetty Green, and a bit of sympathy.

«I have nothing but sympathy for you if you own a lot of Russian stocks.»

But if Indian officials distrust Canada's assurances it has no sympathy with Khalistan, perhaps our military support for the Kurds and our recognition of Kosovo separation from Serbia in 2008 contribute to that.

Believe it or not, I have some sympathy for Facebook in all of this.

Well, the truth is that, when it comes to business, financial institutions don't have that type of sympathy.

Even more serious was the problem lurking in the Belgian federation, where the Walloons had lost an election and were out of sympathy with an agreement whose negotiating mandate had been formulated while they were in government.

A lot of reporters and producers know a lot of people who have sympathy for unions.

In her book, Melanie Ross has provided us with an affectionate framing of evangelical liturgical practices that will surely bring a greater and much - needed clarity to the conversation between evangelicals and high - church Christians, if not a greater sympathy.

What is the real ignorance among African Americans is that the majority of their children are born out of wedlock, significant numbers of their men have taken a particular liking to prison, if white women have had to deal with the degree of lack of care and sympathy that black men have given to their responsibilities — they'd be angry too.

@ praise the lard have you ever considered taking a course in reading comprehension?understanding basic english would go a long way toward making you look brighter.of course in your case there is only so much wisdom to be gained, you can shuffle the bricks around but i fear you will still come up a few shy of a good load.i extend sympathy to you.

Of all the writers covered in this book, Chesterton and Belloc were the closest in sympathy and conviction; nevertheless, George Bernard Shaw's «Chesterbelloc» would have been a creature with a violent mood disorder.

Indeed, the modern awareness of so much victimization imposes such a burden of sympathy and responsibility on the less victimized that they have learned to depend on the media to make the burden more tolerable by turning it into entertainment.

I admit to considerable sympathy for such a vision of life, but we can see here why Lutherans have been such poor institution builders.

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

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.

He has more than a little sympathy for people in my shoes (gay and celibate), but as we talked, he said something to the effect of, «This is an incredibly frustrating conversation to keep having in the church.

At first this moved me to anger but over time that has moved to sympathy and love... atheists are a people lost within themselves and this anger seems to be the desperate flailings of a people trying to find something to fill the hole in their soul where God should be.

But it is important to note a passage of his exact words here: «I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school.»

She has claimed to of fractured rib bones by falling on church property while doing a self appointed tasks (alone), then gets a bunch of sympathy, all while blaming someone for her injury because no one helped her do what she wasn't authorized to do.