• She isn't going to be pushed around either by Newt Gingrich or by anybody who is sympathetic to the Clinton-Gore campaign.

    CNN: Decision

  • Interestingly, the only contemporary account of the siege by a black is sympathetic to Baden-Powell.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa

  • Nonetheless, the intellectual case for that strike must be better understood in advance by the American public and Congress in order to ensure a sympathetic reaction by Washington.

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  • It backed a coup by Greek-Cypriot soldiers sympathetic to enosis.

    ECONOMIST: Nicos Sampson

  • Main banks agree to be sympathetic to those affected by giving capital repayment holidays and extending credit.

    BBC: Rural package at a glance

  • Police and prosecutors are hoping to draw a line under this affair by stressing their commitment to victims, but apologies and sympathetic statements do not alter the fact that courts are necessarily adversarial and unemotional places.

    BBC: Jimmy Savile with his motor home in 1969

  • Lazarescu, who has a splitting headache and is sick to his stomach, is picked up by an ambulance and entrusted to the care of a sympathetic nurse, but, like some awkward, undeliverable package, he gets shunted from hospital to hospital and from specialist to specialist, each more callous and vain than the last.

    NEWYORKER: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

  • "All Americans are sympathetic to the challenges faced by the Mexican government and all of us want them to be successful, " Sen Leahy said in a statement.

    BBC: US drug aid to Mexico faces delay

  • So I think the conventional wisdom by all sides - people who are sympathetic to the United States or not - is that the West, if it intervenes, it will intervene only to tilt the balance momentarily on the side of one group or the other but not in a decisive way.

    NPR: How The Syria Debate Is Playing Out In The Middle East

  • Fourth, many Mexicans who might otherwise be sympathetic to Mr Fox are scared by his social conservatism, his opposition to abortion and his party's clerical roots.

    ECONOMIST: The challenge for Vicente Fox is to keep his balance

  • At oral arguments in February, the justices said they were sympathetic to protecting the valor represented by U.S. military decorations, but questioned whether falsely claiming to have received a medal should be a federal offense.

    WSJ: Supreme Court Strikes Down 'Stolen Valor' Law

  • Some criminals sympathetic to my cause tried to help me by throwing newspapers into my room once a week.

    CNN: 'FRUSTRATIONS ARE HIGH'

  • In the years since their first conversation, during the Compaq acquisition, Keyworth and Kawamoto had spoken often by telephone, and he had found her to be a sympathetic listener, especially while his wife was ill with terminal cancer.

    NEWYORKER: The Kona Files

  • Some residents said a semi-demountable barrier would be more sympathetic but that idea had been rejected by the Environment Agency due to the overall cost and loss of resilience against flooding, the council said.

    BBC: Permanent flood defences approved for Upton-upon-Severn

  • He was sympathetic to the European Union's aim of ending war by hobbling the old troublemakers.

    ECONOMIST: Freddy Heineken

  • Helped by a more sympathetic governor and antiquities director, archaeologists are getting priority access to some sites.

    ECONOMIST: Alexandria

  • The school, which hopes to reopen fully by mid-January, has called for a sympathetic approach from exam boards.

    BBC: Dorset 'lightning strike' school to stay shut for new term

  • In his first appearance before a parliamentary committee since his appointment in January, Mr Elderfield said was "very sympathetic" to the plight of the 5, 500 workers employed by the Quinn Group across Ireland, but he had to ensure policyholders were protected.

    BBC: Quinn treatment 'not heavy-handed' says watchdog

  • The second response, more sympathetic to herding but as disturbing in its potential consequences, is promoted by, among others, the Asian Development Bank.

    ECONOMIST: Nomadism in Mongolia

  • The first career diplomat ever to become American ambassador in London, a post usually occupied by a plutocrat, Mr Seitz takes a humorous and sympathetic look at British society from top to bottom.

    ECONOMIST: Where the power lies in Britain

  • By 1992, he had proved that a Democrat could be sufficiently keen on enterprise, and sympathetic to business and free trade, to be elected president after the party's 12 years in the wilderness.

    ECONOMIST: Campaigning in Clinton country

  • Wyeth is trying to counter the lawyers by settling the most damaging cases--the ones with sympathetic, high-earning plaintiffs or strong evidence of heart damage on an echocardiogram--and pushing the weak ones in front of juries.

    FORBES: Scourge From Texas

  • The film presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design - the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone.

    BBC: Yoko Ono

  • Calming and broad-minded here, as in her earlier works, she applies a sympathetic and subtly humane eye to texts that are neither subtle nor sympathetically humane but lit instead by schismatic fury.

    NEWYORKER: The Big Reveal

  • The whole purpose of the 1986 vaccine act was to prevent the threat of sympathetic jurors from driving vaccine manufacturers out of the business, by setting up an alternate court system with scheduled damage payments.

    FORBES: Vaccine Case Brings Out The Instrumentalist In All Of Us

  • Taken to court by her building society, she was only saved from having her flat repossessed by a sympathetic judge.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Angel of Peckham's gift of giving

  • After a quick meeting and tearful farewell with his family, he is escorted into the first class compartment of a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet for a long flight to Detroit in the U.S. Upon landing, he gets a thorough medical examination by doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital, a clean bill of health, and delivers a speech to a sympathetic audience in New York.

    CNN: EXPORTING DISSENT

  • It is possible that he may have slipped over the border into parts of Pakistan which are sympathetic to the Taliban, but it is likely that he's either in Afghanistan, or close by.

    CNN: James Steinberg: Afghanistan war strategy

  • Though anecdotes abound of candidates being vetted by party operatives, the main means by which the Conservative government ensured that quango boards were broadly sympathetic was a legitimate one: they asked the appointments panels to seek people with business experience.

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