Sentences with phrase «much sympathy for»

So it's hard to have too much sympathy for people who are engaged in activity that is not only illegal now, but likely to remain illegal for many years into the future.

Gather.com, at least, didn't seem to have much sympathy for the family, saying they «should be grateful that they're receiving a paycheck for simply skulking through their own often ludicrous existences.»

It wasn't too hard to spot the court didn't have much sympathy for the attorney general of Canada's position.

While many may not have much sympathy for lawyers who haven't had the foresight to plan for retirement, it's pretty clear they have become somewhat of a high - risk group.

Cases like these don't generate much sympathy for the schools, which appear heavy handed, or in the case of Evans, downright retaliatory in their reaction.

Still, with global firms bringing in billions in revenue and profits per partner at the top 10 firms all well over $ 2 million, it is hard to offer them much sympathy for having had to weather the downturn.

@Glenn Tamblyn I didn't expect much sympathy for Plimer to exist here, I simply mentioned him to show that being a creationist is not a necessary or sufficient condition for being skeptical of anthropogenic climate change, apropos Michael of Summer Hill's continual implications that the two are inseparably linked.

Of course you are right that there was much sympathy for communism in the United States, particularly during the Great Depression when people saw no other way out of their social and economic mess.

If used game buyers are upset they don't get the online feature set I don't really have much sympathy for them.

I can't say I have much sympathy for people who seem to want to constantly break rules or think they are entitled to things they aren't.

Do you see why I didn't think you'd have much sympathy for my money troubles?

I'm deeply thankful that my Jackson was amenable to positive training methods, and have so much sympathy for those families (and dogs) with harder behavioral problems.

The kind of story that, frankly, makes it tough to feel much sympathy for a newspaper industry struggling for survival.

I don't have much sympathy for the protests called «Occupy Wall Street,» and those modeled after it.

And Revenue Canada doesn't have much sympathy for taxpayers like that, because they just see the situation as, «You were trying to avoid tax.»

I have to admit I don't have much sympathy for those who lent or borrowed at floating rates like LIBOR.

That's why I don't have much sympathy for articles talking about Great Moderation 2.0.

I think by keeping Natalie's point of view silent we could keep the story going without too much sympathy for her.

I can understand the fear of those who either refuse or aren't able to change with this new development, but I can not find it in me to have much sympathy for them.

It's hard to feel much sympathy for the crew who helped spread contagious diseases, venereal and otherwise, among one of the many, many cultures that the English destroyed throughout the reign of the empire.

I also agree with rebajane that there were times when I didn't feel much sympathy for either of them.

I really did not have much sympathy for Amy.

She found much sympathy for the South in Europe, particularly among the nobility.

That said, it's difficult to summon much sympathy for those who are fortunate enough to be able to buy a Bentley.

NHTSA doesn't seem to have much sympathy for the fine nor the blindsided manner with which is appears to have been announced.

As I've said many times, I've much sympathy for the Common Core effort, but am skeptical that it will turn out well.

But since Rick leads such a rarefied existence, it's hard for the audience to muster much sympathy for him.

Where Jones only speaks up for a total of about ten minutes, his statement that he didn't have much sympathy for the Stump character sounds to my ears like not much appreciation for Wuhl.

Like in John Sayles» Silver City, he is not as capable of keeping up with the more experienced cast, playing Joseph with such smarmy arrogance that once he does crack and lash out at the boy, it's harder to feel much sympathy for the fact that his fiancé is still obsessed with her former husband.

Johnson, re-teaming with director Brad Peyton (San Andreas), conveys an almost effortless charisma and magnetic screen presence, but not to the extent that he can generate much sympathy for the film's two - legged characters.

My parents didn't seem to feel much sympathy for my plight of not liking certain foods.

I don't have much sympathy for this line of reasoning.

But there was not much sympathy for Tebbit's point from Defra minister Lord Gardiner, who chipped in that «the Circle and District line is a very good way of getting from here to the Tower».

I have much sympathy for what school food professionals are up against, financially and bureaucratically.

Given the many types of contraception available, there isn't much sympathy for whose who accidentally become pregnant.

Some Arsenal fans and football watchers did not have much sympathy for the Switzerland international star Granit Xhaka after he was shown his marching orders at the weekend by referee John Moss for a late and cynical tackle on the Swansea City player Modou Barrow.

It's hard for me to feel much sympathy for his position, though I did my best to help him use appropriate options to register his complaint.

Personally, I never feel much sympathy for our failures when they have left.

They refused to sell us Suarez, so I can not feel too much sympathy for them,» Wenger I like it...

BTW, I don't have much sympathy for you.

They can not join with those vociferous persons, often associated with conservative religious groups, who seek to go back to what are often styled «the good old days»: on the other hand, they do not have much sympathy for the wildly radical people who assume that there must be a total destruction of our inheritance, in the naive confidence that surely «something» will then appear that is entirely good and sound and right.

And for the record I was raised on a steady diet of how «mainstream» (said with derision) Christianity was a harlot, so it's hard to feel to much sympathy for them.

A final note: I do not believe that Whitehead would have much sympathy for what is known as the «back - to - the - basics» movement in education today.

Dismissing the claim for judicial review, the judge said: «I have much sympathy for the claimants, and I fully understand their reasons for wishing to pursue this line of inquiry.

Hodgson has much sympathy for this position and argues for a new realism in physics, and is firmly against speculations drawn from a sub-realist interpretation of quantum mechanics (eg.

The troops had about as much sympathy for the demonstrators as a small - town boy from Alabama might have for a Harvard postdoc.»

While there is some genuine confusion among businesses about some of the new regulations coming into force, it's also tough to feel too much sympathy for those who are complaining like it's the end of the world.

It is difficult to generate much sympathy for large television importers such as Sony and WalMart, snack food manufacturers and insurance companies, which makes them ideal targets for retroactive taxes.

So while he picked up a small but devoted following, it's hard for most people to have much sympathy for Shkreli.

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I have huge sympathy for those with weight issues because they receive so much negative bias from society that they are subjected to daily insults and ridicule.