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.
At best she might end up as another Republican martyr a more sympathetic, shoulder-padded version of Kenneth Starr.
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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The one feeling he shares with other would-be-sympathetic Africa hands is disappointment.
And it put pressure on the President to consider a do-over on his budget, a mulligan that a still-sympathetic press would have likely given him.
He has shown himself to be deeply sympathetic to Islamists -- for example, excusing and dissembling about their commitment to jihad and the necessity of not offending them.
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.
And there are still people who would never don a Klan robe or put on a swastika armband who are sympathetic to the - many of the ideas that these groups hold.
Organizations like the Council on American Islamic Relations that are - at the very least - sympathetic to our Islamofascist foes are charged with providing "sensitivity training" to FBI agents on how to "reach out" to Muslims.
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.
As this transition becomes more acute, other energy rich countries, as well as non-aligned nations sympathetic to their views and in need of energy themselves, will join this anti-American movement.
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.
Another Sunni man, who also asked not to be named, said the Syrian government distributed cheap fuel to communities sympathetic to the regime -- fuel that was not offered to rebel-held towns.
'' 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.
One of the reasons for this demand became clear as Pete King's witnesses shed light on the true nature of such self-appointed Muslim "leaders": They do not speak for American Muslims and are either directly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization whose mission is to "destroy Western civilization from within" - or sympathetic to its goal of bringing shariah to the United States.
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It seems predictable that this will be a mantra of his road show, which will likely feature only private meetings before hand-picked and sympathetic Muslim Brotherhood audiences (like his visit to the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA) or left-wing ones (like Harvard's).
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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.
The Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen, seen as sympathetic to the Syrian regime, quoted Lebanese security officials as saying 17 fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, a rebel group linked to the global al-Qaida terror network, were killed in the fighting.
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