If anything, Collins has emerged as a sympathetic figure in a lost era.
As for the Liberals, their interim leader, Bob Rae, is a former NDP premier of Ontario and is sympathetic to a coalition.
The movie is a twist on the classic story, with the Sheriff of Nottingham cast as a sympathetic figure up against a not-so-heroic Robin Hood.
But a smart lawyer, a sympathetic victim, and a complex medical case can easily confuse both judge and jury, leading to enormous jury awards regardless of what the scientific evidence shows.
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If there's something irritatingly cocky about a Geat who strips naked to fight a supernatural being on equal terms (Zemeckis goes to "Austin Powers" lengths to hide Beowulf's manhood), his adversary is a curiously sympathetic figure resembling a refugee from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition.
Valiunis makes an attempt to find in the canon writers more sympathetic to a business life.
The Hound is crude but sympathetic, a dog of war to be sure, but not so cruel or merciless as his brother or the king.
And I've said this over and over again, I'm actually sympathetic with a lot of people at the first line of decision making in the HMO.
While I am certainly sympathetic as a former governor with the issues that states must deal with as a result of illegal immigration, the onus is on Congress to pass an immigration plan.
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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While hardly a sympathetic figure, Duggan has become a martyr in the erupting violence in London as police there are unable to control spreading riots and looting in Tottenham, a district in the northern part of the ciy.
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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.
And so once again we are faced with a sympathetic, beaten Thomas Barrow, a man who has squandered all his good will, all his money, and now must leave Downton with no reference at all a perfect storm of misery and ruin into which the always compassionate John Bates inserts himself.
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To begin, rather than be realistic about what can be achieved even assuming a sympathetic House and Senate, Romney has devised a 160 page, 59-point plan to boost the U.S. economy.
So don't be surprised if the IRSgets a sympathetic ear from some judges when taxpayers give them a legal opening.
The aforementioned actions were at least spun very effectively to portray Congress as a sympathetic body demonstrating concern for escalating oil prices, a trap some Americans surely fell into.
The complaints have gotten a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have just gotten a proposal by the Treasury Department for a sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation, including the merger of the SEC with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the reassignment of many of the SEC's enforcement duties to the stock exchanges and other self-regulatory agencies.
That is why appointing a sympathetic judge to the Supreme Court for life has long been the surest way for a president to leave a lasting imprint on America.
Even if healthy people use them, we can be a little more sympathetic to those who fool a partner for a few hours than to those who fool history with chemically enhanced world records.
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.
Mr Lissouba has visited Congo's President Laurent Kabila several times recently, and appeared to get a sympathetic reception.
The designer, whom I had long admired, stared in horror and shot me a sympathetic glance.
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Some patients will be given a sympathetic, caring consultation, others will be treated rather less empathetically.
The Tax Court could let let even a sympathetic case like this one skate by.
If a future Czech government wanted to take part, it would also receive a sympathetic hearing.
With the Dodgers sale, all club transactions will see a sympathetic uptick in value.
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Forewarned, in the introduction, by the author's declaration of intent, the reader expects a sympathetic biography.
Luda was about to answer with a sympathetic smile, but the smile died in midair.
Have you read any serious novels lately that paint a sympathetic picture of business people or entrepreneurs?
So when reading the work of an ideological opponent, try to do so with a sympathetic eye.
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