Sentences with phrase «little sympathy in»

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.

Rather than crying victim (a tactic that has met with little sympathy in the art world, as evidenced in the plethora of negative responses to the 1993 Whitney Biennial), COMBAT ZONE empowered women through direct

The Kurdish argument that military efforts against ISIS should be compensated is met with little sympathy in Baghdad, particularly when it comes to a key asset such as Kirkuk.

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But in this country, he said, federal politicians are acutely aware that big financial institutions have little sympathy among ordinary Canadians.

Protest will flare up again, reopening old wounds in Nebraska and elsewhere, but the current commander - in - chief has said that he has little time for such things or sympathy for those who care about them.

watch how the Zionazis are trashing this Jew for showing a little sympathy to the victims of Israeli military dictatorship and occupation / colonization in the UN-recognized state of Palestine.

Typical anti-Semitic rant from someone who has never been to Israel or Gaza or the West Bank, but likes to fake sympathy for Palestinians; and from someone who obviously knows very little about history in general and Jewish history more specifically.

Early Christians in the Roman Empire showed little or no sympathy for other religions, even judiaism..

«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.»

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.

Her reflections on the priesthood and the Christian life are frequently affecting, and she obviously has little sympathy for the Women?s Ordination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordination of women.

Some sympathy has to go to the teachers who usually have to teach in overcrowded and very mixed abilities of students and little ability or limited latitude to discipline.

There can be little question that Whitehead himself accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus» life and death are in fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality who is the chief — although not the only — principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.

I have little sympathy for those so willing to break the law and expose innocent children to such dangers and in turn teach the children that their god / bible are above the law.

Indeed, as far as I can see, literature does little other than inculcate in our future leaders a sympathy for the downtrodden, the oppressed, the marginalized.

My thought is that in my early years I had little sympathy for pastors.

You know the type: all justice, no joy; all the love in the world for the poor and downtrodden, but very little sympathy for friends who order Coke instead of fair trade organic soya - soda at the bar.

(CNN)- Though large swaths of the Muslim world cheered Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, there has been relatively little sympathy expressed for him from those quarters since his killing Sunday - a testament to the dramatic falloff in global Muslim support for the al Qaeda leader in the last decade.

Schweitzer had little personal sympathy for eschatology, and saw in it no potentiality for theology today.

Both Delumeau and Bossy feature in Eire's bibliography, but he has little sympathy with these attempts at an overarching morphology of «Reformation.»

Great crowds were flocking thither, attracted by the display of traditional costumes in the procession; most of them were people who had little sympathy with the Christian religion.

Even when in some developed countries (though least so in the United States) governments are expressing sympathy for these demands, they have little response at home among their own people.

But even in the prime of its politicking, for instance in the fabled 1960s, no survey showed general sympathy for the pronouncements made by leaders, and there was little congruence between lay (and sometimes local pastoral) opinion and what was being said at conventions or in commissions.

In «Jonas,» another story with autobiographical elements written around the same time, the title character, a painter, is described with a little more sympathy: He «believed in his staIn «Jonas,» another story with autobiographical elements written around the same time, the title character, a painter, is described with a little more sympathy: He «believed in his stain his star.

Profoundly moved by the wisdom of nonviolent resistance, editors reported on, analyzed and theologized about all the events of these years, from Montgomery to Little Rock to the sit - ins to the freedom riders, with considerable interest and always accompanied by profound expressions of respect and human sympathy.

The photography seems feminist in sympathy; three photos of women priests seems a little more than is strictly required to illustrate the point that some denominations have women priests.

US agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of the biggest grains traders in the world, has been spared little sympathy by some farmers and politicians like Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, who used a Senate inquiry to grill ADM's executives on price - fixing charges dating back to the 1990s.

My sympathies about the little skittling nightmare — I just recently had my first encounter with one of this you know whats (assuming we are talking about the same thing) and all my mother could do to console me was say «Well, you ARE in New York City!»

Jack's mother and his wife no doubt found solace in the kind words and in the money collected from the Iowa State community — «to express in a material way the sympathy of the college» — $ 2,259, that covered funeral expenses, paid off Anna's mortgage and provided both Anna and Cora Mae with a little nest egg.

«I have sympathy for every single manager in the Premier League and everybody goes through periods where it goes a bit little less well.

Arsene Wenger will have little sympathy towards his players and will expect them to at least finish the campaign in style, ending their three match run without a win preferably.

Name a significant book published in the last 10 years.In the 1990s I was head of a refugee and migration NGO - I found there was little public sympathy then for what many asylum seekers had endured.

Continuing today's exciting news from the Republican side of our little presidential campaign, Bruce Reed notes in Slate that Rudy Giuliani's official blog seems to be acting in sympathy with Hollywood writers — except that instead of the writers striking, it's the readers.

There should be little doubt that this public display of sympathy and support has been a huge factor in encouraging literally hundreds of other men to contact advice lines or police to report other offences.

Outside parliament, protestors had little sympathy for MPs planning on abstaining - a move allowed for in the coalition agreement.

May has had a brilliant career in basic research and can be expected to have little sympathy for ideological fads that are at odds with the pursuit of excellence.

moments, and it works very well, but don't walk into it thinking you're getting It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, because the show packs a heavy emotional punch as well; I found myself feeling genuine compassion and sympathy for Grace and Frankie, and was even a little misty - eyed by the end of the pilot, as anger, resentment, and bitterness gave way to cautious optimism.

There's a little bit of farcical spoof humor in place as well, with Django's strut now accompanied by contemporary soundtrack rhymes from Rick Ross, with the irreverent sass - talk of Samuel L. Jackson's postmodern Sambo as Candie's reliable assistant Stephen, clouding the audience's sympathies.

There is little in this world for us to relate to, even in the relatively mild - mannered protagonists with whom our sympathies are meant to lie.

Statham has carved a nice little niche for himself in the B - movie universe, and his appealing mixture of toughness and sympathy gives us a viable rooting interest amid all the cardboard characters.

The only reason I have little sympathy for the embarrassment of riches in the Best Actor category is that it should be equally crowded for women.

Autodefensa has elements of a populist uprising, and the grisly sights of such things as heads of decapitated victims lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery or a woman's story about the barbarous murder of a little child can not help but win sympathy for their argument for self - defense — especially when the Mexican government is, at best, ineffective when it comes to protecting its citizens.

Harding received little sympathy from the public in 1994.

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.

I have little sympathy for them, they haven't developed their tech in years.

Each time it squawked, the crone clucked, whether in sympathy or disapproval one could not tell, for she never turned to her devoted little companion but wandered aimlessly from one piece of ancient wooden furniture to another in her amorphous black dress.

Each time it squawked, the crone clucked, whether in sympathy or disapproval one could not tell, for she never turned to her devoted little companion but wandered aimlessly from one piece of ancient wooden furniture to...

Although, like everyone else I can find little sympathy for Clara's life choices, I think it is worth keeping in mind the context of the time where many children with parents in the colonies grew up far from their parents.

I have every sympathy with Amazon in their negotiation with Hachette and little understanding for the position that the publisher has taken.

Even though you are also a victim — and actually the prime victim — in the theft, creditors will generally show little sympathy.