You might be surprised to find your boss sympathetic--particularly if you're a top performer--because he or she is in a similar situation.
Of course he was playing to a largely sympathetic audience - leading business figures, many of whom have lobbied for aviation expansion.
Irena Wiley, wife of the sympathetic Vienna-based Consul General John Wiley, sent away for Chicago and New York phone books so that prospective emigrants could track down relatives, real or imagined.
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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.
Thus, Kristen Connolly's sympathetic Dana -- not quite a virgin, but clearly the designated "good girl" -- is something more than just the sum of her body parts (even if she is upstaged by a dismembered arm in one scene), and Fran Kranz's witty pot-head conspiracy theorist is such an engaging personality the movie risks deflating without him.
Ms. Mirren gets exactly the stability-conferring character of the sympathetic but un-touchy-feely "postage stamp with a pulse" monarch.
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Interestingly, the only contemporary account of the siege by a black is sympathetic to Baden-Powell.
Perhaps it is not as sympathetic to hard-pressed oil consumers as King Abdullah claims.
The majority of judges on the ever-sympathetic 9th Circuit ordered the case into mediation even before the court established jurisdiction.
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This gathering of left-leaning, activist-sympathetic lawyers is an odd place for a Forbes journalist to show up, but they wanted a full range of views for the panel on securities litigation.
The actor, writer and director, known for films such as "Meet the Parents" and "Zoolander, " has performed or created roles that strike a delicate balance between sympathetic and distasteful -- and sometimes fall too hard on one side of the line.
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.
Within the Liberals (seen as conservative, basically pro-business and largely sympathetic to the government) a split developed after its vice-chairman, Ronald Arculli, stalked out of the chamber in tears shortly before the vote.
She isn't going to be pushed around either by Newt Gingrich or by anybody who is sympathetic to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
Tebow doesn't say a word, doesn't even lift his head to acknowledge the comment, while others in the room make sympathetic don't-listen-to-that-guy remarks.
'' Against her wishes, he plots to rip off a trio of evil farmers, and the film turns into a modly surreal, underground-burrowing heist yarn, with Clooney as self-mockingly sympathetic as he is in the Ocean's films.
Ryan Gosling is a touch too sympathetic for the freeze-dried, laconic Driver whom we follow in the first half, and, once the mood is fractured and he starts to dish out bestial beatings, that stillness is badly devalued.
As the backlash grew, opponents of gay and lesbian marriage, including many religious conservatives, moved quickly to put amendments on state ballots to short-circuit similar rulings from courts sympathetic to the argument that restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples was discriminatory.
Like so many NBA players, Withey attributes his progress to Hudy's simultaneously no-frills but sympathetic approach.
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Sympathetic journalists are well looked-after and may themselves be drawn into the Blair project.
Though ministers have made sympathetic noises to the anti-tout lobby, they have stopped short of banning the practice.
The film presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design - the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone.
It backed a coup by Greek-Cypriot soldiers sympathetic to enosis.
Sympathetic parliamentarians formed a fact-finding team to investigate their plight.
Near-silence at national level allows Fidesz "to avoid confronting right-wing voters sympathetic to Jobbik who they hope to keep in their camp, " says Kristof Szombati of the LMP, a green party.
Warshawski, is another wonderfully three-dimensional and sympathetic creation.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened to veto the bill, as he had done twice before, but Democrats pulled it last December believing that the incoming governor, Jerry Brown, would be much more sympathetic to a state single-payer bill.
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Despite his trademark irony, which could have been used to startling Weakest Link effect, he adopts a friendly, sympathetic tone with the contenders - again a departure from the original quizmaster and a nod to Millionaire's Chris Tarrant.
Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might get cold feet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.
Equally if not more important has been a change in plot, from the traditional martial violence, simple noble samurai defeating evildoers themes, to more character-driven and sympathetic themes, including love stories or stories of daily life conflict within the social constraints of the Edo period.
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