Sentences with phrase «sympathy when»

Our sales meeting echoed with laughter and groans of sympathy when we heard about the Perils of Pauline adventure, which started with our sales rep herding a dog and cat through a house during a building inspection.

The unfaithful spouse should be willing to end the affair, accept the lion's share of responsibility, and show remorse and sympathy when sharing the details.

If that's all that they want as their legacy in the law, I can't say that I feel much sympathy when they're shown the door.

Courts usually have sympathy when it comes to long - term employees, especially if the employer is not playing by the rules.

Lawyers often mistakenly appeal heavily to the jury's sympathy when trying a case, especially when they are representing the plaintiff.

They have no sympathy when it comes to your suffering.

And if you're looking to resume the lost art of floriography, you certainly wouldn't want to send your sweetheart, say, lemon balm for sympathy when what you really meant was heliotrope for true love...

Franklin never got to really grow, Michael never really changed for his family they just took him back because fuck yoga, and Trevor lost all player sympathy when (spoiler obviously) he murdered that dude and his girlfirend in cold blood.

I am not without sympathy when some new authors get «sticker shock» upon hearing an estimate for my editorial services, and I am actually relatively affordable.

There's even room for a little sympathy when it comes to a few of them.

But scorn can easily turn to sympathy when faced with the sad fallout of the men who have to get paid millions of dollars to do the equivalent of imagining your finger is a ray gun and going, «Pew!

Women in this country reject insincere sympathy when it is offered in response to reprehensible victimization undertaken for political gain,» Smyth's statement says.

The prominent Corby MP was met with widespread sympathy when she announced she was resigning as an MP to spend more time with family in New York, but a minority of commentators attacked her for not treating her parliamentary career with the seriousness it deserved.

Does a man who destroyed lives for political gain deserve sympathy when being sentenced for eight Federal felony convictions?

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.

There are so many people out there who have no sympathy when it comes to having to settle children on planes etc. so I think this is brilliant for anyone, not just for parents.

These players earn ridiculous money and then look for sympathy when it all goes wrong.

Wenger needs to remove all sympathy when preparing for next season.

It's good to have some sympathy when it comes to the time it takes for successful link building.

Traynor: Empathy, or you could also call it sympathy when it's in this state, is saying - it's not enough to feel bad for the customer.

And if opponents like Burnaby, B.C., Mayor Derek Corrigan follow through with threats to throw themselves in front of the bulldozers, Trudeau will show no sympathy when the RCMP throws protestors into the clink, says Brownsey.

When «Argo» turns serious, it starts to drag, in large part because the subjects of the operation (fully aware of the 52 other Americans that didn't escape the embassy and remained in a perilous hostage situation) lack the depth of the cunning Mendez, the focus of our sympathies when he encounters hesitations from the Americans to play along.

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The trick when it comes to increasing your empathy is to challenge yourself to see the perspective of those with whom you have less natural sympathy — perhaps even with your enemies.

«When people feel sympathy or compassion, the corrugator muscles pull the eyebrows in and up, their lips press together, and their head tilts forward slightly — a sign of social engagement.»

Not that they don't have my sympathies: It can be frustrating when you're trying to stand out among so many other vendors, especially when it feels as if everyone has thought of something more creative than you.

When a colleague loses a loved one, for example, we show sympathy by writing a card or expressing ourselves in another way.

Hard to have any sympathy for him when he's up half the night at the vomitorium.

When asked if the FBI suspected that the gunman may have an extremist leanings, including a possible sympathy with Islamic State, Ronald Hopper, an assistant FBI agent in charge, said: «We do have suggestions that the individual may have leanings toward that particular ideology.

People delivering bad news can feel sympathy for the victim; they can feel confused or frustrated about the fact that they have to deliver the news in the first place - like in a layoff situation - when perhaps they don't really even believe in it themselves.

When Seay contacted customer service, he was met not with an apology, let alone sympathy, but rather with incredulity.

Simple sympathy isn't enough, and it never will be when there are concrete steps that can be made to save actual lives.

Although I have zero sympathy for Trump, I am puzzled by the CNN and MSNBC pundits» apparent unanimity that Giuliani's statement that Trump reimbursed Cohen was an admission that Trump lied, when he previously said he had not known of the Daniels payoff.

Jeffries: In Patrisse Cullors» memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, she says the narrative around accountability is that harm to Black people is our own doing, whereas harm to White people results in a collective sympathy.

Well, the truth is that, when it comes to business, financial institutions don't have that type of sympathy.

When my father passed away, my boss in a sympathy card said that God shows His love for us in the people He gives us to love.

«He knows his sheep, and they know him; and it is this direct bearing of the teacher on the taught, of his mind upon their minds, and the mutual sympathy which exists between them, which is his strength and influence when he addresses them.

OWN THIS PRINT things are messed up when the perpetrator becomes the victim and gets the sympathy CAN I HELP YOU?

When three children at Fatima reported a series of visions, they were interrogated and challenged by both the Church and the public authorities without much sympathy: they stuck resolutely to their accounts of what they had seen and heard.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

I shall shock some of my colleagues when I say that I feel a sympathy for Shaw» s elderly gentleman in Back to Methuselah who said, «they tell me there are leucocytes in my blood and sodium and carbon in my flesh.

But one need not share Nietzsche's sympathies to take his point; one can certainly see what is at stake when Christ, scourged and mocked, is brought before Pilate a second time: the latter's «Whence art thou?»

When I face arguments which confidently tell me that all must (metaphysically must) be for the best and then look at the incidence of evil in the world, my sympathies are with Voltaire in caricaturing the Leibnizian Dr. Pangloss.

When the thesis of divine relativity is reset in terms of divine love, a love which seems to require sympathy, the thesis, which at first seemed counter-intuitive (for many are accustomed to thinking of God as transcendent and impassible), becomes transparently benign.

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

And when that tradition seems to offer diverging views, Howard is able to present both sides with clarity and sympathy.

Had a paper rout when i was ten Do nt want sympathy, but help would be good.

We are not Christ, but if we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ's large - heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real sympathy that springs, not from fear, but from the liberating and redeeming love of Christ for all who suffer.

Yet although Muslims speak so much of the Mercy and Compassion of God, Montgomery Watt, a Christian scholar with a deep knowledge of and sympathy for Islam, probably correctly assesses the views of many Christians when he says that they «would claim that God as conceived by Christians is more loving than God as conceived by Muslims.»

Even when on trial for his life, he attempted to use the occasion to bring the Athenians to the truth rather than employing the rhetorical devices by which he could play on their sympathy.

When a person acts on behalf of someone who has won his sympathy, the welfare of the other person has become his interest — it is a new self - interest altered by the genuine concern for the welfare of the other.