Sentences with phrase «of unsympathetic»

Stu d. 255, 270 (2016)(describing statistically significant results of an experiment in which actual judges were asked to make a ruling about a hypothetical criminal conviction, taking into account both a single precedent and either positive or negative facts about the defendant, and upheld the conviction of the unsympathetic defendant at a rate more than twice as high as that of the sympathetic defendant (87 - 41 %)-RRB-.

Cats roam further and more often, and their spraying, yowling, and fighting are more likely to attract the attention of unsympathetic neighbors — resulting in a one - way trip to the shelter.

I have to expand my list of unsympathetic characters past Stanton because I agree with terrio that Mrs. Henley was not sympathetic at all.

Most car manufacturers would be horrified at the thought of a bunch of unsympathetic, boorish journalists driving one of their development prototypes months before the car's official launch.

Most of Baumbach's recent work has been sharp character studies, designed to carefully dissect the neurosis of unsympathetic protagonists.

In common with a lot of Ferrara's films, The Funeral is a very bleak affair, full of unsympathetic characters which makes it a little hard going to watch.

My repertoire consisted of an unsympathetic pile of brown rice spaghetti under a variety of minced - meat & vegetable concoctions.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, the Competition Tribunal proved unsympathetic to the retailers» plight — which is good news for all of us.

Without understanding context and perspective, we run the risk of... creating problems rather than solving them; and appearing blunt and unsympathetic.»

The CJR previously cited the rape article at the top of its list of «The Worst Journalism of 2014,» faulting Erdely for failing to check Jackie's account against other sources, including her alleged attackers and three friends who were depicted as unsympathetic to her.

Notwithstanding the clear statistical rationale for making completion of the long - form census mandatory, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to those who say «I shouldn't have to give the government detailed information about my life».

I'll admit that complaining about the education taxes aimed at the wealthy — such as the plan to institute an excise tax on endowment fund managers paid in excess of $ 1 million a year — is unsympathetic.

In it, he addressed the «failure» of Bitcoin and personal redemption to a mostly unsympathetic audience, after losing $ 6 billion worth of...

«We are not seeking to second guess good faith disclosure decisions, or be unsympathetic to the perils that companies face from these kinds of intrusions,» he said, but Yahoo's material misstatements, omissions and lack of controls fell substantially short of expectations.

I am glad to know that SGC is concerned about victims of sexual assault, but I assure them the most unsympathetic thing they can continue to do is refuse to respond to the concerns of sexual assault victims, myself included.

No matter what that knowledge is, it will always be difficult for the person trying to share to not be accused of condescension, arrogance, being unsympathetic, etc..

We fail to appreciate the significance of this part of the parable if we think of the elder son as being presented as an unsympathetic and ill - natured character.

Most of us know that these kinds of statements do more harm than good, so we play it safe and refrain from offering any encouragement at all because we don't want it to come out like a robotic and unsympathetic platitude.

Such a disposition on Mays's part renders him a most unsympathetic reader of Whitehead.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

His eagerness not only to form close friendships with Orthodox and Protestant leaders, but also to act as an advocate on behalf of non-Catholic Christian bodies to a sometimes unsympathetic Argentine government set him apart.

3 It is as unsympathetic an account as the Roman historian's, but once again it is an outside view which helps to put the beginnings of Christianity on the map of first - century history.

The portrayal of Whitehead even in fun, by contrast, is uninformed to the point of total ignorance, wholly unsympathetic, and altogether unfaithful to every scrap of genuine evidence and testimony we possess regarding his biography or the experiences of his numerous colleagues and students, including Russell.

Like Anna Karenina, Hester is one of the great heroines in world literature, and if Hawthorne was unsympathetic in his estimate of Margaret Fuller (whom he knew) and her brand of feminism, he sympathetically portrayed Anne Hutchinson as a courageous martyr, and he adored and praised his own wife.

'» But it is fair to say that, on the ground of personal autonomy, he is not unsympathetic to suicide and «assisted suicide» in what he regards as hard cases.

Even when we have not participated directly in this radical shift, we have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

We have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

Still others, unsympathetic to the plight of a pagan queen, contend that Vashti grew a tail!

In my life, I've hated people unfairly before, usually out of some sort of envy or paranoid presumption... The linchpin of Christian hate, insofar as it has a theological root, is the assumption that God's holiness amounts to a nihilistic, ruthlessly unsympathetic perfectionism.

Malcolm did not share the optimism of the civil rights movement and thus found himself speaking to many unsympathetic audiences.

In theory, they can have their own married priests, parishes and bishops - and they will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance.

He was wrong about married bishops, but dead right to home in on the fact that those within the ordinariates «will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance».

As one unsympathetic political activist put it recently to Leith (without knowing he was president of the NAE), «All those evangelicals really scare me.»

They had reacted fearfully or even gleefully to the news of Martin Luther King's assassination, they are unsympathetic with student protests, and they do not want the church to become involved with the social or political issues of our society.

In Coming Apart, Murray wrote that elites were sealing themselves into a «bubble» that left them both uncomprehending of, and unsympathetic to, their struggling fellow Americans.

However, Cardinal Campeggio was a seasoned and persevering diplomat, and was able, subsequent to the Diet, to gain a definite advantage by gathering together the rulers unsympathetic to the reformers and getting them to sign a text forming the League of Ratisbon (7 July 1524), which was to promote reform of the Church within the papal tradition.

There was still indeed a majority of representatives, conservative and more or less unsympathetic to religious change as such, or to any change opposed by Pope and Emperor.

Seventy - seven per cent «in general» are unsympathetic toward Moral Majority efforts; 70 per cent feel the organization is harmful in politics; 72 per cent think it does damage to the cause of religion in the country.

But it does lie within our capacity at least to challenge the dogmas of scientific materialism that rule out any point of contact between our myths of hope and the apparently unsympathetic world of nature that is often presented to us as the necessary consequent of a scientific approach to reality.

In 1971, then US Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz uttered these unsympathetic words: «Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry.»

I am not unsympathetic at all to parents of cryers, I've been there.

Rape victims often fail to mention the attack because of the harsh, unsympathetic attitude of UK Border Agency officers and sometimes their own sense of shame.

Rape victims, for instance, often fail to mention the attack because of the harsh, unsympathetic attitude of UK Border Agency officers and their own culturally - induced shame.

In the United Kingdom over the last decade, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was often unsympathetic to the creation of more mutually - owned businesses.

Kuenssberg, named journalist of the year by the Press Gazette in November, has often received hostility from Corbyn supporters, who have also clashed with other members of the mainstream media some regard as unsympathetic.

Civil liberties advocates feared that an I.D. card program open to those lacking other kinds of paperwork could, if seized by unsympathetic federal authorities, become a deportation database.

In contrast, the Tories» cynical strategy aims to create a human shield of supposedly indolent, feckless, benefit - scrounging deadlegs whose unsympathetic lifestyles make its package of welfare cuts more palatable to the public.

In a damaging critique of the prime minister, General Lord Guthrie said Gordon Brown had been the «most unsympathetic chancellor» to defence budgets and the only senior Cabinet minister who avoided coming to the MoD for briefings.

The cumulative destruction of that era, birthed Obasanjo's delusion of grandeur, Umaru Yar» Adua's tragic power captivity and Jonathan, as Nigeria's unsympathetic undertaker, led to the meltdown that made the Buhari second coming inevitable.

And unlike the relatively hospitable Council, Albany is home to largely unsympathetic interests: a Republican State Senate, an Assembly full of Democrats aligned with building trades unions and, of course, the mayor's regular tormentor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.