Sentences with phrase «sympathetic ear»

They can lend sympathetic ears, help take household chores off your shoulders, and care for older siblings.

Friends have discovered that I do not have the most sympathetic ear when it comes to complaining about their husband's faults.

This report is fortunate enough to fall on what should be more sympathetic ears.

The appeal we are making are falling on very sympathetic ears.

Given that we are dealing with rational people the leader's argument reaches sympathetic ears and after some months, the compensation adjustment is finally executed.

They would then file again in a different state, where they hoped to find a more sympathetic ear.

It is no consolation (and surely a backhanded compliment) that Richard Rorty claimed that had he emigrated to the U.S., the «schwarzwald redneck» Heidegger would have found sympathetic ears amongst the agrarians.

Others take to Twitter or Facebook to join communities of teachers that help each other troubleshoot issues or provide sympathetic ears for stories of their own classrooms.

Over a coffee in the staff room I confided the incident to the worldly but sympathetic ear of my colleague Olive - a hugely talented and experienced Reception class teacher.

Jeremy Irons gives his Alfred Pennyworth an even drier sense of humor and less sympathetic ear than Michael Caine did.

Jim Gaffigan gets the best lines as the straightman and Ed Helms» sympathetic ear steals the movie.

Now, they are core tenets of UNITY * doctrine, and have the potential to be heard with a more sympathetic ear under DeBlasio and Fariña.

They tend to be quiet yet cooperative with a considerate and sympathetic ear for others.

He noted that the talks have so far been fruitful and that his appeals have «fallen on very, very sympathetic ears.

When their heated viewpoints boil over, the reprimanded teenager swims off to look for a more sympathetic ear.

People often feel pressure to listen to complainers because they don't want to be seen as callous or rude, but there's a fine line between lending a sympathetic ear and getting sucked into their negative emotional spiral.

He'll get a sympathetic ear in the short - term, and it's likely you'll benefit in the long run.

Activists seeing divestment in the gun industry get a sympathetic ear, but in practice, it hasn't been so easy for Wall Street to get out.

«With the Wall Street Journal, we just kept calling different reporters until we found a sympathetic ear,» says Cullinan.

Listen to your gut and ask yourself if you want advice or just a sympathetic ear.

The coordinated European effort to alleviate the impact the sanctions could have on their own companies includes France, Germany, Italy and Ireland, French sources said on Monday, adding that American officials had offered a sympathetic ear.

They consistently emphasize and over index on people's titles and credentials and forget that -; unless you're only concerned with window dressing and PR -; the object of the board - building exercise is to get some regular help, a sympathetic ear or two, and some people on your team who've been there before, who will tell you the truth when necessary, and who share your vision for the business.

Although they can get a sympathetic ear from European Commission trade officials, the environment commissioner Stavro Dimas is proving to be a major headache for them.

So it's just as important to meet other entrepreneurs who can understand what you're going through, be a sympathetic ear, offer tips and share your successes.

Those companies — which usually complain anonymously, fearing Chinese retribution — have found a sympathetic ear in the Trump administration.

So will any minority faiths that become socially accepted, or somehow get the sympathetic ear of enough legislators.

I was new to the area, had just joined the local Mormon church, and here were these women at my house with a gift, a meal for my husband, a smile, a hug and a sympathetic ear.

At best it is a sympathetic ear.

The foreword and introduction tell the reader that in this book they will find real hope in the aftermath of abortion, a sympathetic ear, the offer of real forgiveness and a barely hoped - for freedom of spirit.

Those who have suffered at the hands of the church, its leaders and its members, must be allowed to tell their story to believing and sympathetic ears or the possibility of healing is almost closed to them.

Yes, you get more people to listen to you and discuss their beliefs rationally when you turn a sympathetic ear rather than smear them right off the bat, but it's also dangerous to start respecting certain beliefs and giving them more power than they deserve.

People mistake my leaving Rothesay Vineyard as a disgruntled flight and that if they've left Rothesay Vineyard disgruntled they will find in me a sympathetic ear.

If you want to vote for Vizquel, I'm a sympathetic ear.

Maybe not though, because at Ajax we and more specifically Arsene Wenger will have a sympathetic ear.

He attended Knicks games and went out to dinner in the city, but mostly Thomas hung out at Crawford's house, which provided a familiar oasis and a sympathetic ear.

His lacklustre performances, his long injury lay - offs, and his complaints to the Dutch press and any countrymen with a sympathetic ear.

The child who is older than three can retrieve memory of difficult experiences and with the help of a sympathetic ear, resolve and mitigate these stressful experiences.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's largest organization of school food workers, has been leading the charge for school meal roll - backs and, so far, it seems to be getting a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill.

Whether you just scroll through LLL posts on Facebook, post a question, join in a discussion online or talk to a Leader, there is always someone with good information, personal experience, or a sympathetic ear.

PAL moms may not want to talk RIGHT NOW, but it's comforting to know where the sympathetic ears are.

Also, let your tween know that you're available to help or talk whenever your tween needs a sympathetic ear.

She was able to truly listen to me, sometimes offering advice, sometimes just being a sympathetic ear.

But the hope is that you'll find a sympathetic ear and he or she can speak to the teacher about snacks.

Armed with experience, patience and a sympathetic ear, a postpartum doula will hold your hand, hand you a cup of tea and help you embrace your new role.

«Being able to have someone in Congress who's saying, I'm fighting for you, and actually just listening to people's stories and having a sympathetic ear and giving folks a platform to be heard I think is an important thing for the folks in this room tonight to have that,» Reidy says.

Mr. Heastie, a Bronx Democrat whom the city can usually count on for a sympathetic ear, had said on Monday that others in his party were ready to exert the state's power to change the bag policy.

Local government advocates on the final scheduled day of the legislative session pushed for changes to the state's property tax cap — and they may have a sympathetic ear from Senate Republicans.