Sentences with phrase «sympathetic hearing from»

Opponents of teacher tenure had hoped for a more sympathetic hearing from the state high court.

Former culture secretary Maria Miller has taken up the cause of creating a specific new offence and said she won a sympathetic hearing from justice secretary Chris Grayling.

Earlier this month, Rep. Joe Wilson (R, S.C.) introduced a bill to delay the implementation of the fiduciary rule, one that would likely get a sympathetic hearing from laissez faire GOP congressional leaders.

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It would, for many young people, be the first time they ever heard an actual argument for a center - right policy, given from a sympathetic figure, in language they can understand.

The decreased chance of a sympathetic hearing at the Supreme Court calls for intensified vigilance to keep this condition from spreading.

One's view of the later - term fetus, however, is more a matter of what might be called sympathetic identification — seeing the image of a recognizable human infant and, now, hearing from the experts exactly what it takes to «terminate» its existence.

While the publication of Luther's 95 theses was intended only for scholarly debate, his challenge to papal authority not only evoked a strong ecclesiastical charge of heresy, but found sympathetic support from the laity, anti-clericals, German nationalists, humanists and the poor and ordinary people who heard him preach, and culminated in his defense by his sovereign, Frederick the Elector of Saxony.

It's one thing to hear that from someone who's always been the authority figure; it's another to hear that from someone who has usually been more supportive and sympathetic.

So I a) didn't let myself get mad at him for normal - but - horrible developmental collapse, b) didn't let myself take his lashing out or his scatteredness personally, c) did take his need to be touching me and hearing that I loved him personally, and d) shifted my view of him at this stage from autonomous tween to little kid going through a regression so I could be kind and sympathetic.

A very large distance separates a committee hearing from a law on the books, and a deep chasm divides a sympathetic hearing by a Cabinet secretary from effective protection of workers.

And, while some of them can certainly help you out of difficult situations, sometimes you don't want a teacher, you just want to hear from a sympathetic friend who has also been in the trenches.

Woody's younger son David (Will Forte, in an understated performance that serves as the film's sympathetic core) arrives at his parents» house to hear from his mother Kate (June Squibb, stealing scenes left and right with her brash commentary) how miserable it is to live with Woody, who maybe has a year or two tops, she suspects, before he succumbs to some form of dementia.

I would have appreciated hearing more from the less sympathetic characters such as Gloria & Maura.

Importantly, I first started hearing about him from artists who found in him a sympathetic and intelligent translator of their projects, and that kind of endorsement is very important to us.

It was found that the Judge did not hear evidence from the parties regarding the disputed facts and therefore this lead to a sympathetic approach to the mother's position.

Sparta had already heard from at least one unhappy client by the time I spoke with her, but was not at all sympathetic to my plight.

And, while some of them can certainly help you out of difficult situations, sometimes you don't want a teacher, you just want to hear from sympathetic friend who has also been in the trenches.