Sentences with phrase «lot of sympathy for»

Life insurance companies don't have a lot of sympathy for smokers with cardiac issues.

I have a lot of sympathy for Quebec's provision on children's names.

It's hard to have a lot of sympathy for low taxes paid by «job creators» like Taylor Armstrong, reality TV star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, who paid $ 60,000 for a birthday party for her four - year - old daughter.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for those athletes, though.

It's another issue turning that into policy, for governments, and it's very easy for all of us who don't have to be elected to say «this is how I would do it», and I have a lot of sympathy for our politicians, because they are dealing with extremely selfish populations.»

I have a lot of sympathy for that view as the alarmists have failed to answer a lot of pertinent questions about their hypothesis, or provided at the very least shaky and questionable workarounds to them in order to keep their wagon rolling.

# 162 — wili, I have a lot of sympathy for your point of view.

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I've got a lot of sympathy for that view.

8) There was a lot of sympathy for the idea of not paying interest on excess reserves, and certainly not same rate as on required reserves.

I do not have a lot of sympathy for those that did not do their job.

I have a lot of sympathy for today's circulation professionals, their jobs is hard and getting harder.

I felt that the character development was fantastic - I felt a lot of sympathy for the sisters.

He was strongly fascinated by moving masses; he had a lot of sympathy for the anarchist movement.

Perhaps one of the most complete films I have ever seen: thrills, spills, light comedy, drama, tension, gore, singing and a very satisfying ending (although to be honest I had an awful lot of sympathy for the poor old shark, who was only doing what comes naturally!)

Inevitably, the extremity of Keller's actions diminishes a lot of our sympathy for his character and the case.

Ms Abbott said: «What happens to people that vote not to trigger will be managed by the whips but the leadership has a lot of sympathy for people in heavily Remain constituencies who find themselves in difficulty.»

«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.

Because while I don't want my kid eating Go - Gurt either, I do have a lot of sympathy for school personnel and for parents — even these more affluent, private school parents — who believe they are providing healthy snacks when they select applesauce, yogurt and crackers over the many other options out there.

It sucks that they don't work for everyone and I guarantee you that every nurse and doctor who was working with your friend had a lot of sympathy for her because it is absolutely no fun to see your patient in pain and to not be able to give her what she wanted.

Even though there has been a lot of sympathy for the Brazilian, Laudrup feels that the former Santos player only got what he deserved.

Quite rightly there was a lot of sympathy for the club at this time, and they were a popular club throughout the country.

In the first half of the season I had a lot of sympathy for Van Gaal — we had our worst injuries for many a season and he was working on bedding in new players whilst getting to grips with the Premier League and managing Manchester United.

Quite why the 20 - year - old would not want to continue working with the former Swansea City boss is beyond almost everyone, as there is a lot of sympathy for the Reds after having to sell Luis Suarez to Barcelona last summer, even if some of the dealings in the transfer market do have to some under more scrutiny.

«'' If you see your neighbour's beard on fire, water your own»»» WENGER you are still not out of the woods, better win tomorrow cuz I don't remember Rodgers having a lot of sympathy for you last time we went to Anfield and got an as..

In fact, the fact that he hasn't been given a fair opportunity to prove himself gives me a lot of sympathy for his situation.

Everyone has been praising the new Arsenal attack and the fantastic hat - trick from Aaron Ramsey, but I haven't seen a lot of sympathy for Theo Walcott and his new Everton team - mates.

«Quite frankly there is not a lot of sympathy for processors,» he said, «but still you don't want to see any of them shut down.»

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

I feel bad this guy is being asked to do something he doesn't want to do, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for him if he doesn't suck it up and save his skin.

Instead, offer her lots of sympathy for her loss, and expect the same kinds of ongoing mourning and repeated questions that you'd get if a person she cared for had died.

Not exact matches

«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.»

Either way, job - seekers get a lot of sympathy from me, as long as they're taking responsibility for their side of the equation.

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

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.

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

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

I would have a lot more sympathy for the owner of Hobby Lobby if it was run as a sole proprietorship and not picking and choosing how he wants help from the government in managing risk, liability, regulations and taxes.

Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»

We have a special sympathy for poor women who are evilly and roughly treated by their husbands, because of the roughness and cruelty of the tyranny and captivity which is their lot.

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.

Unsurprisingly there was not a lot of sympathy or support for the BFG among Arsenal fans on social media sites, as a Metro report shows.

«I want to use this opportunity to thank Nigerians who have expressed a lot of concern and sympathy and those who have been praying for him.

«You do have to feel a little bit of sympathy for Alistair Darling - he's presiding over a collapsing economy and he really didn't have a lot of room for manoeuvre,» he mused.

It'll be interesting to see if that is reflected in other polls, although sympathy for David Cameron's loss of his son Ivan may well lead to some temporary blips in figures anyway (a lot of the fieldwork for this poll would have been conducted before people had seen the news).

And this one is a lot more plausible, both narratively, thanks to the ungimmicky script by Patrick Gilfillan (race unknown), and emotionally, thanks to the onscreen goddess who is Viola Davis (Blackhat): she drags her Lila across a minefield of grief and rage and takes us along with her via an unignorable, undeniable empathy, and emerges in a place where what Lila does might challenge our ethics but never our sympathy for her pain.

Finding worthwhile stuff there is a lot of word - of - mouth and skimming the free samples, but it's a hard slug — hard enough to me to feel sympathy for all those slush - pile readers of old.