Sentences with phrase «often unsympathetic»

She was adept at maneuvers on the tricky three - way territory occupied by the union, the city, and the legislature upstate in Albany, which is often unsympathetic to the state's southern metropolis.

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

Not exact matches

Another type he sees often is the middle manager whose job frustration or insecurity — caused by an unsympathetic boss or work overload — keeps him tossing till near dawn.

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.

It might be a tad intellectually dishonest, but more often than not I can give the impatient primigravida a rationale (a 45 % C / S rate) why I am not scheduling her induction without her muttering what an unsympathetic doctor I am and what bad «bedside manner» I have.

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.

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.

A combination of low levels of both agreeableness and conscientiousness (someone can be both generally unsympathetic and irresponsible) often are related to a higher likelihood of social network addiction — but, oddly enough, so are a combination of high levels of both agreeableness and conscientiousness.

In films from at least 1922, McClary had often played rather unsympathetic characters, i.e., a nasty rustler terrorizing the local settlers in The Lone Rider (1922) and one of the smugglers in Twin Triggers (1926).

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.