Sentences with phrase «public sympathy»

The survey reveals little public sympathy for the opt - out movement.

We found little public sympathy for the «opt - out» point of view.

The public can not be expected to back major cuts that affect public services, therefore, and a competent Labour campaign against such cuts could secure widespread public sympathy.

Seems to me he was just wanting public sympathy for a non issue.

Disclaimer: I will concentrate more on the actual outcome, rather than public sympathy evaluation.

Long - hour culture aside, well - paid graduates working in well - appointed offices don't tend to attract too much public sympathy or have much change to fight for.

Public sympathy for the position of the dairy farmers has been strong and steady across surveys.

Well - known sporting figure beats GB up, thus releasing wave of public sympathy when he has to appear at a European Council meeting with two black eyes.

It was mostly the fact that Khodorkovsky had retained his moral stance and did not «break» by appealing for clemency on the grounds of admission of guilt, that attracted public sympathy.

Critics of Murdoch were even more irritated by his actions than supporters, with many arguing his action would increase public sympathy for the 80 - year - old and distract attention from the hearing.

And to further fortify their actions and garner public sympathy, IPOB has set up an elaborate media campaign team to blackmail the Federal Government and its security agencies in discharging its onerous lawful responsibilities to the people of Nigeria by protecting lives and property.

Despite the verdict and execution, public sympathies appeared to lie with Qadri.

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.

It's entirely the job of unions to represent their members - but to threaten strike action even as you're going through talks, while most people have little or no pension to fall back on at all, is not something that's going to carry public sympathy.»

While there is clearly broad public sympathy for what the Party has traditionally stood for, it is clear that many voters think that the Party no longer represents them.

To do otherwise, and risk not having an inquiry at all, would have threatened any remaining public sympathy with either party

The government's indecisive handling of the Iran hostage crisis lost public sympathy for the 15 personnel taken captive, the Conservatives have claimed.

Caputo worked to build public sympathy for MercExchange by reducing an arcane legal case to «kitchen table language,» painting eBay as a corporate monster and finding reporters and opinion writers to publish stories about the matter in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

In an era where strikes rarely result in definitive victories for either side, teachers have been unusually successful both in extracting both significant wage increases and galvanizing public sympathy.

It was a position that won them considerable public sympathy and, ultimately, with the help of a large and successful rally in Albany, won them both private space for all three Success schools and a clear victory over the mayor, who appeared utterly unprepared to handle the consequences of the fight he started with the sector.

From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy.

In both cases, Black youths were described as «men,» their physical and sexual maturity greatly exaggerated, as a means of engendering public sympathy for the White men who committed the acts of killing.

An estranged former member of direct action anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd alleges it ordered its own boat to be scuttled to win public sympathy.

The decision will also be a popular one, given how little public sympathy there is for the families of the 7/7 bombers.

It is also disheartening that some of the attackers misinformed the unsuspecting public by releasing manipulated information to gain public sympathy.

Miliband's later battle with the Mail is also understood to have won him widespread public sympathy, with even political opponents coming to his defence.

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.

Instead, we were treated to union leaders doing what they usually do when they don't get their way: trot out the usual half - truths, fear - mongering and lies to rally the troops and garner public sympathy.

Usman also described Kanu as somebody without any means of livelihood, but used «propaganda» to attract public sympathy.

The only possible explanation must be the wave of public sympathy for the Tory leader produced by the tragic death of his precious son, Ivan.

i mean this according to them should easily earn the public sympathy and turn the public opinion in tea baggers favor.

Already, public sympathy, empathy for muslims is nealy stagnating our judicial system, and we mean to stop this dead at banthemosque dot com.

The latter will offer their public sympathy, while privately exulting, «Excellent» another Christian demoralized and conquered.

This is a clearly designed scheme to make the public so angry at Simms and Nantz that they would have no choice but to realize the inconsistency with the manner the Patriots & Tom Brady were treated for deflating footballs, and it would wing a cascade of public sympathy to the Patriots side.

While the team is saying they won't acquiesce to such demands, public sympathy is probably not going to be on the side of a team that is jettisoning all of the positive features of its organization in order to make another buck.

General conclusion: There's no correlation between the size of a protest and the public sympathy.

I do not think there is a correlation between protest size alone and public sympathy, even less the outcome of that protest.

Clearly, public sympathy is much harder to evaluate than the political, economical or social changes due to a protest, as history concentrates on these more.

Many Nigerians said he was merely out to seek for public sympathy.

David Cameron has hit out at the «wave of public sympathy» for Raoul Moat, the killer whose one - week chase from the police ended in his death this weekend.

The sources also said the new task force also might be a control mechanism — that the leaders may want to assure that a particular reform proposal doesn't acquire a life of its own, gaining public sympathy and momentum, if they are unwilling to support it or lack confidence that they can pass it.

Brooklyn State Senator Martin Golden declared last night that public sympathies have turned toward police officers and away from the headline - dominating protest movement — and told the Observer that he supported an effort in Albany to extend hate crime protections to cops.