Sentences with phrase «public sympathy for»

I don't think that there is much public sympathy for climate scientists on the one hand asking for policy change and on the other hand maintaining property rights in their data / code.

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.

Our results reveal little public sympathy for giving parents this option (see Figure 1).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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public sympathy for what the Party has traditionally stood for, it is clear that many voters think that the Party no longer represents them.

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.

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

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He was disturbed by the sympathy for totalitarian dictators shown by fellow theologians during the 1970s and 1980s, and he made his concerns public.

The political trick, then, for local politicians is to appear stable in the eyes of the authorities, at the same time making sure the public knows of their sympathies for the pro-PLO leanings of the populace.

The development generated public outrage at OutRage and a great deal of sympathy for Hope, who has subsequently been named Archbishop of York.

Many were put to death, with such refinements of torture that public dislike began to turn to sympathy for the victims.

Granted that there is a place, and a significant place, for sympathy and toleration in our public life; but might there not also be a place for more fully and carefully developed faculties of judgment?

clearly the Gay Gestapo is working overtime... they pulled out because they do nt want to be bullied in the court of public opinion and abused by the Gestapo lawyers... I personally have no respect for, sympathy for or interest in the Gay issues..

What is unique in the present conflict is the psychological maneuvering on both sides to gain public sympathy, one making use of moral categories of «just retaliation» and the other appealing for religious or moral duty of every Muslim to be engaged in jihad against the infidels and their ways.

He said: «I have no sympathy for bishops who privately say «Actually, I really support you and I want to see a Church in which we can celebrate gay and lesbian relationships, but I can't say that in public because I'll get attacked for it».»

On the contrary, it is quite legitimate to say that for Smith the economic order is part of a larger social order in which there is a prominent role for the public authority and that social order itself is situated in a moral order where sympathy and justice are the cardinal principles.

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

Mark one thing: an age that adores mediocrity, the obsequious conformist, and whose judgment of a man is confined to his wealth or to his public notoriety needs desperately, second to its need for God, the antipodean sympathy of a wilderness.

McIlroy, for his part, had no sympathy for world - weary travelers like Willett and others who have not been quite so public with their complaints about the kid - glove treatment enjoyed by Rory.

Just another sad story generated by the Democrats, who have once again used a child to endear themselves to the public and gain sympathy for their causes.

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.

«That excites them, but it's not an argument the general public has any sympathy for.

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.

To be very clear, while the public does oppose the future rate of increase of «Green Taxes» into 2020 by 60 % to 18 %, considerable cross-party sympathy exists for specific measures in their current form, (see graph on bottom left).

The President said «ebinom de3 wo mo se wcn nhu akwan a yay3 no, ebia wc fa so no na wcn ada» This is the most appropriate way to describe people who use these same smooth roads yet pretend to be driving on potholed roads.It is rather insulting, mischievous and unethical to incite the public against an opponent using lies, and mischievous materials that is more hurting and highly immoral.The Flagbearer should campaign on his strength than this latest move of seeking for public sympathy over nothing.

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.

He told Good Morning Britain he believes there is a public interest in the story surrounding the Leicester East MP but says there should be «some sympathy for Keith» in the way he's been treated in the media.

blame media for over flogging d incident and their exageration, in a real sense media supose to be everywhere not to be carring camera after the incident and start asking people question, as big as Baga town there shuld be media in that area to cover any event there, i beleive some boko haram sponsored paid media at d detriment of d jtf, Baga people harbour terrorist to attack jtf, definitly those kind people are terrorist too, the people that jubilate for the death of any soldier that came to secure them, media shuld stop promoting public sympathy on these criminals if we want to eradicate terrorist completly in our country

But the same people who are lecturing us on schadenfreude over the sackings were often the ones who reserved absolutely no sympathy for MPs» staff who lost their employment as a consequence of their bosses having their fingers in the public purse during the expenses scandal.

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.

Nancy deserved sympathy for her extremely public pain, but so did Tonya for her private blows.

His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to a public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.

It's an eye for an eye, and though Sarah is quickly getting close to calling in the FBI, she's found a bond with these people — and even has some sympathy with their ideas, and the evidence she sees that made them come to the conclusion their attacks are the only way the public will take notice.

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.

The one argument for keeping them in aquariums that we have any sympathy for is the educational value they provide to the public.

It's an uphill slog for you guys in that regard, and you have my deepest sympathies for that and your tireless patience with the public.

To expose the political consensus to debate would be to challenge its very foundations, to test the public's sympathy for it.

I feel sympathy for Gleick because I know how frustrating it is to engage in the fight to get public acceptance of the urgency to act on climate change.

Occupying opposite ends of the public sympathy spectrum, migrant clients experiencing domestic violence and those in detention facing removal or deportation have, in our experience, been the least able to find alternative means for funding legal advice and assistance.

Add that the subject will likely have public relevance and sympathies and, probably, money enough for a crack team of lawyers, and you conclude that any prosecutor who goes that way without an airtight case will appear to the public to be wasting public resources to prosecute a minor crime (that many people won't ever consider as a crime) in order to get publicity.

In the mind of the general public there is little room for sympathy or leniency to be extended to those charged with sex crimes.

Having been involved in a car crash that orphaned and seriously injured a seven - year old boy, Ms. Nixon may not engender a high degree of public sympathy but her legal ordeal set the stage for a very significant precedent handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) several weeks ago in R. v. Nixon 2011 SCC 34.

If he begins now to exercise his pardon power with more intention and greater liberality, with more sympathy for human error and less aversion to controversy, there is at least a chance that the public will regard with equanimity any relief he ultimately chooses to grant to Scooter Libby.

Judge Evans also went on record expressing some sympathy for the needs of students and the rights of the public.

Unlike the nearly 50,000 Quebec nurses who were similarly forced back to work after an illegal strike in 1999 — but who enjoyed widespread public support for their wage demands, which convinced the Parti Québécois government of former Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard to forego fines and reach a higher - paying settlement — Dallaire said the lawyers were unable to garner sympathy for the negotiation process discrepancies with Crown attorneys.