Sentences with phrase «of little sympathy»

Research commissioned by the Lowitja Institute in 2015 showed that, despite the myth of little sympathy for offenders among the general public — a situation that is often exploited by politicians to perpetuate punitive policies — citizens are open to the idea of alternatives to incarceration, and to the provision of better services and programs that address the social, cultural and economic determinants of crime.

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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.

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.

Very little sympathy by MOST of the board members.

«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.

I am not myself capable of such a peroration, but I confess to more than a little sympathy for Chesterton's approach.

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.

The new wave of patriotism has little sympathy for wimps like Jeremiah.

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.

Westerners too, reared on the Bible with its denunciations of «idolatry», felt little sympathy with Hindu devotion and some would refuse the gift of prasad, a sweet which after being offered to the god is given to the devotee.

Most mainline churches have little sympathy with this talk about end - times, whether it comes from the fundamentalists or from those who warn of the end of conventional Christianity.

Because of these methodological considerations I find I have little sympathy with the various «cause theologies» of recent years, though I almost always agree with the cause itself.

I have little sympathy with the idea that infanticide is just another form of murder.

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.

What is clear is that his whole analysis was such as to create sympathy for the «little people» (workers as well as members of the lower - middle class) who were joining the Nazi movement.

(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.

The first 170 pages are an exposition of Islam by a Western writer with scarcely a phrase to which a Muslim could take exception, and the rest of the book is a guide to Christian missionary work with Muslims, with which they have little sympathy.

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

This is why people who cling to the God of Israel find little sympathy, while some Buddhists, for example, are sometimes seen as fellow travelers by non-theists.

If God had sympathy for the people of Admah and Zeboiim the way He had sympathy for the people of Ephraim and Israel, then God is starting to look a little bit more like Jesus, for a sympathetic God does not destroy people with fire and brimstone, but seeks to rescue them instead.

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.

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.

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.

What bothers me most with a remark of that sort is that it does not express even a smidgen of sympathy for those whose homes were demolished, for the lives that were lost; a little something for the terrible anguish endured.

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.

If I'm not Arsenal fan and have a sympathy towards Arsenal, that little sympathy will gone just after end of transfer windows

I felt a little bit of sympathy for him as he came onto the pitch just seconds after Burnley equalised at the death.

Manchester United manager David Moyes has little sympathy for his Premier League counterparts getting wound up by the timing of transfer bids — becaus -LRB-...)

These types of challenges have become almost taboo nowadays, and people have little sympathy for players who get dismissed as a result of these kinds of challenges, even if they win the ball.

I have to agree with RedInNC — the kids have a choice of what to eat, and if they don't like certain things, I have very little sympathy.

As your little one develops characteristics like empathy and sympathy, so too will his sense of gratitude — attributes that will help make up his value system.

Children experience sympathy and empathy as they tap on the shapes and pages to view the suggestions of the little circles.

Funny Dirty Little War (1983) Dir: Héctor OliveraAn Argentine black comedy tells the story of Suprino, a Peronist mayor who tries to fire his deputy because of his Marxist sympathies.

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.

Despite this context of job scarcity and the structural precariousness they have to face, the young are often regarded with little sympathy.

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.

But there was little sympathy outside of Africa for the AU's position and ultimately Gbagbo was arrested by French servicemen (France being the former colonial power of that country).

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.

«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.

The draconian Welfare Reforms and the immoral consequences they have caused will no doubt have little sympathy or compassion form Cameron so unless we get rid of him our lives will be further darkened.

The addition of prostitutes and heroin addicts to the list of high - risk groups did little to increase public sympathy, so at first funding for prevention and care remained scarce.

Anticipating that we would receive little sympathy if we were being paid substantially more than other BNL staff members, we compared our salaries to others at BNL using a comprehensive list of pay schedules for all employee categories, with the exception of postdocs.

The professor of the course had little sympathy.

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.

We should all have a little sympathy for my husband who is an excellent mover of furniture, opener of boxers and builder of things.