Sentences with phrase «of sympathizing»

7) Compassion (and have we lost it when it comes to people)-- My wife and I came across a young man who was distraught over the unfortunate death of his dog that got loose and was hit by a car — and I was saddened to think that of how judgmental the animal welfare community could be to a man in this situation, instead of sympathizing with him for this loss.

Lucky Lindy became an American hero when he made the first nonstop transatlantic flight, but he fell into disgrace after being accused of sympathizing with the Nazis.

Instead of sympathizing, though, we are allowed to understand Monty.

(I had wondered whether Todd Haynes, who made the movie in 1995, was spoofing Carol White as a hypochondriac of sympathizing with her.

At times capable of bringing a tear to the eye and at others capable of turning stomachs, the Wrestler nonetheless enchants throughout its entirety telling a story that all are capable of sympathizing with.

I sort of sympathize with the pastor on this one.

Not exact matches

Wong asserted the excerpt suggested Thiel «may sympathize more with Trump — who has recently been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by several women — than with his victims.»

This is the kind of thing that makes tech managers everywhere reach for the Aspirin; employees taking IT matters into their own hands is a perennial headache, and I sympathize with that.

Dr. Marcia Drew Hohn, director of the Public Education Institute at the Immigrant Learning Center, which is based in Malden, Massachusetts, sympathizes.

But those were the rules of the game before the shareholders bought their stock, which makes it hard to sympathize with their claim that they are being taken advantage of when they volunteered for it.

It's hard not to sympathize with the goals of the movement, or at least with the passion of those most centrally involved.

As alone as I feel sometimes, everyone has experienced some type of loss, and anyone halfway decent will understand and sympathize.

I would sympathize with the turkey as slivers of explanations and excuses were sliced from our tender hides.

Still my heart always sympathizes with a Group of 5 school that ran the table.

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.

History tells us that to influence Kim, we must empathize (note: not sympathize) with him, University of Connecticut professor Stephen Benedict Dyson writes in The Conversation.

They take a lot of heat as a generation, and I sympathize, because I remember that back in the 1990s, we GenXers heard a lot of the same crap.

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, regularly gets hundreds of emails a day, he told The Atlantic recently, so he can sympathize with all the office denizens who see their productivity torpedoed by an endless barrage of email.

«Will it be the one who sympathized with the Parkland students he brought to the White House, the one who met with members of the Senate... or the one who had burgers» with NRA head Wayne LaPierre.

I've added you, your children, and your parents names to the Global list of Nazi Sympathizing Al Quida soldiers for everyone to see.

Please don't go out of your way to make me sympathize with Republicans.

They had been banished (under pain of death) from pretty much every European country when they lastly arrived in England hoping to convert them (thinking that the protestants might sympathize with them more then the Catholics).

So when front man Jason Lytle sings «might as well give up, old friends,» on the album highlight «Rear View Mirror,» you can only sympathize with the timid high - pitched admission of defeat.

When they fail, sympathize with them instead of showing disappointment or even guidance.

Still others sympathize with the positions of the ILC and attend their conferences, but are not currently looking to become full members.

One can sympathize with bishops who keep their distance from the infightings of the Washington apparatus of, for instance, the USCC.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

This failure to communicate, to sympathize with another's plight, to assume the good intentions of their people and treat them as equals, is precisely the problem of polarization.

The major Reformers were frightened by this move, and we have to sympathize with them It is too easy to confuse various impulses and ideas that arise in one's mind with the guidance of God.

The widespread reaction against the 1960s makes it hard for many to sympathize with the victims of those years — with the single exception of Martin Luther King.

And if you're in one of those situations, I've been there and I sympathize.

The central theme of the Epistle to the Hebrews is that he was made like us in all respects save for our sin; he calls us his brothers; in our humanity he is exalted to the throne of God, a high priest who is able to sympathize with our weaknesses.

It is true for the old, as for the rest of us, that «we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses».

About a quarter of black Protestants (26 %) and 16 percent of white evangelicals didn't sympathize with either side.

While most people are firmly in one camp or the other, roughly 3 to 4 out of 10 Americans either sympathized with both sides — or with neither — on issues of whether employers should be required to provide birth control (43 %), transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice (37 %), or businesses should be required to serve same - sex couples (33 %).

It seems to me that a Christian can not but sympathize with spontaneous violence but calculated violence, violence incited as part of a strategy, is in no respect different from the violence of the general who orders his solders to their death and in the same breath praises them for their patriotism, etc..

Sam, I certainly sympathize with your statement, especially since I live in Texas where we have some of the biggest «megachurches» in America.

Any one who has pondered the problems of freedom and determinism will probably sympathize with the sentiment which prompted Milton to assign discussion of this topic to some little devils in Satan's legions who liked to bandy it about during moments of relaxation — without getting anywhere.

He gets a message that a nuclear missile is in - bound from the Russian sympathizing part of the nation of Georgia, and «poof», there goes Atlanta.

God is love in that he can perfectly sympathize with, participate in, the being of his creatures.60 The emphasis is totally on God's receptivity, on his action as Redeemer.

As hard as it is to sympathize with someone's prejudice, we can at least understand how painful it is to leave behjnd an old belief that helped one make sense of the world.

Divine relativity can not solve the problem of how an infinite being could fully sympathize with a finite and fragmentary part of reality; an issue I will call the problem of radical particularity.5

As a Reformed theologian, I sympathize with efforts to recover the Reformation roots of the Baptist heritage, including a strong theological commitment to the sovereignty of God and the doctrines of grace.

Many of them although may not participate in physically waging jihad, support charities and organizations that do, and sympathize with their Imam's that preach hatred and violence of the west and non-muslims.

The Membership Committee is composed of 48 persons, and includes a number of members from the Global South who might be expected to sympathize with the NALC.

Insofar as we fail to fully sympathize with the interests of others and to act accordingly, our love is imperfect, and we are not fully ethical.

God was not clearly thought of as supreme originative freedom sympathetically cherishing the creatures who were lesser forms of originative freedom sympathizing with their fellows.

According to Hartshornean and to biblical theism, then, what may appear to be God's failure to sympathize with the interests of the oppressed is never that; and furthermore, when God sacrifices some interests in favor of other interests, it is always for the sake of promoting liberty for all.

Hartshorne's theism, also, allows for the possibility that God might choose to sacrifice some particular interests for the sake of other more inclusive interests, and that such sacrifice does not imply that God fails to sympathize with the interests which are sacrificed (MVG 166).

Though I could sympathize with portions of what each of my questioners had to say, the fact that modernism» the modernism which theologians assume they must address» could disappear so completely in five short years signals grave dangers for the post-Communist societies of Eastern Europe.