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"sympathize" Definitions
  1. [intransitive, transitive] to feel sorry for somebody; to show that you understand and feel sorry about somebody’s problems
  2. [intransitive] sympathize with somebody/something to support somebody/something
"sympathize" Synonyms
empathise(UK) empathize(US) pity commiserate understand comprehend appreciate emphathize identify bleed empathize with identify with feel for feel sorry for grieve for show concern weep for bleed for relate to be sorry for agree accord concur favor(US) favour(UK) support align with assent back approve of go along be in sympathy be sympathetic towards side with be in favour of be well disposed to be as one be of the same mind be of the same opinion go along with connect associate relate bond link share be in tune be on the same wavelength as commune feel at one feel togetherness have a rapport have insight into put oneself in the shoes of get on harmonise(UK) harmonize(US) gel like be in accord be in agreement feel a rapport be united be compatible be in harmony be friendly be on friendly terms get along see eye to eye treat gently coddle cosset humor(US) humour(UK) indulge oblige pamper please go easy on sympathise(UK) entertain allow permit let tolerate fraternize(US) socialise(UK) socialize(US) mingle consort mix run hobnob chum consociate company travel sort unite hang out pal around hook up align ally affiliate join league side cooperate collaborate combine confederate enlist join up join forces team up band together align oneself form an alliance work closely conspire collude cabal manoeuvre(UK) connive contrive fraternise(UK) maneuver(US) wangle intrigue machinate plot scheme form a conspiracy lay plans hatch a plot relent show mercy show pity have mercy have pity be merciful lighten up become merciful ease up on give quarter give some slack take a softer line become lenient come around come round More

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Sometimes you could sympathize with one of them, and then you could sympathize with the other one.
Nearly as many liberal Democrats sympathize with Palestinians (20183%) in the Middle Eastern conflict as sympathize with Israelis (22018%), according to a Gallup poll out this week.
The religious demographic with the highest support for Israel is white evangelical Protestants: 78 percent said they sympathize with Israel, while only 5 percent said they sympathize with Palestinians.
While Republicans have become increasingly sympathetic towards Israel in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 2628 percent of Republicans saying that they sympathize more with Israel than Palestine, Democrats are now divided statistically quite evenly between those who sympathize more with Israel at 28503 percent, those who sympathize more with Palestine at 22019 percent, and those who say they sympathize with neither or both Israel and Palestine at 25 percent.
So, we sympathize with your frustrations and want to help.
"We sympathize with Mrs May," Juncker told a news conference.
Whom are we supposed to sympathize with on Doctor Who?
I'm still able to sympathize with the people who are.
So I can, to some extent, sympathize with this sentiment.
And I do sympathize with the concerns of coal country.
So they kind of sympathize with what I'm going through.
As someone who has been through that hustle, I sympathize.
We do not condemn the Court, we sympathize with it.
Local fans of the New York basketball franchises could sympathize.
We do not condemn the court, we sympathize with it.
I totally sympathize with your son's embarrassment in that moment.
I don't sympathize as much as I emphasize with them.
Both sympathize with President Trump, and he sympathizes with them.
Most people sympathize with my situation but only a few empathize.
We need to laugh at the haters and sympathize with them.
I sympathize with every parent who was waiting for a child.
Still, I sympathize with your loss of intimacy with your brother.
In some ways, I sympathize with the founders of failed projects.
I was trying to empathize, trying to sympathize, trying to understand.
Sympathize and reprove, console or tell them to suck it up.
By abstaining, "you sympathize with those living in poverty," he said.
Meanwhile, African-Americans tend to sympathize with new immigrants, fellow outsiders.
So it's a really visual, easily understood, easy to sympathize with.
His constituents are "pissed off," he said — And he can sympathize.
I am able to empathize and sympathize in a new way.
You don't necessarily sympathize with them, but it's a different view.
In places like Deggendorf, many seem to sympathize with Mr. Seehofer.
It seems unlikely that California courts will sympathize with that argument.
The bags under his eyes that make you want to sympathize.
And in this sense, you can start to sympathize a bit.
In laughing at the joke, we sympathize with Seth, who's grossed out.
I'm hoping all the jackasses that sympathize follow her out the door.
"In a way, I do sympathize with Arie [Luyendyk Jr.]," she says.
And what woman cannot sympathize with the Evil Queen from Snow White?
"I actually don't sympathize or empathize with Sora at all," Nomura says.
But I had to sympathize, because I'd probably do the same thing.
You can probably sympathize, since America's internet is historically shitty and slow.
Trump complains of being in his "own little cocoon," and I sympathize.
For how could we, in good conscience, wholly sympathize with these characters?
Pile 2: Quotations I/we primarily disagree or do not sympathize with.
But I can understand African-Americans' aversion to them, and I sympathize.
Howard Dean, a Democrat and a former governor of Vermont, can sympathize.
"He was someone I thought I might sympathize with," Fae told me.
"I sympathize with SEC saying these are really securities offerings," Friedman said.
For those baffled by such esoterica, Dr. Lederman was quick to sympathize.
That said, I sympathize with your desire to be a good host.
But I can't say I sympathize, because there's no basis for sympathy.
One can understand this point of view and deeply sympathize with it.
You have to be able to sympathize with the people you're documenting.
The new parents may appreciate the treats, and sympathize with your misery.
Those who have tried to upgrade a computer's operating system will sympathize.
She shares photos of herself with patients, to show she can sympathize.
We sympathize with his discomfort, though it hardly excuses what came next.
I can sympathize, but we're not going back upstairs until he goes.
It is always difficult to sympathize with athletes asking for more money.
We're meant to sympathize with him and thus want him to live.
How could one feel the pain of all those people, sympathize with millions?
Her weird bowl cut still hasn't grown out, and I sympathize with that.
There are elements of it that I can sympathize with and relate to.
I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
Clinton also had some time to sympathize with Kim Kardashian after Kardashian's robbery.
Some team owners, including Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, sympathize with the president.
But let's try to sympathize with these users and understand what's actually happening.
Tempting us to sympathize with someone like Cheney does sound dodgy on paper.
Jokowi's first instinct was to sympathize with the 81-year-old's ailing health.
Newton does not sympathize with oil companies' sob stories about their bottom lines.
And if you disobey him, he would fake cry and make you sympathize.
They sympathize with indigenous populations and rebuke Spain's incursion—up to a point.
"We sympathize with the plight of uranium suppliers," Ms. Korsnick said on Wednesday.
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books.
When it comes to the power of the human-canine bond, I sympathize.
Some readers may sympathize with him while others may find his arguments unconvincing.
I recognize and sympathize that this situation adds to an already difficult time.
But many of Cathay's 26,000 Hong Kong-based employees sympathize with the protesters.
Both Republicans and Democrats appeared to sympathize with him and the other executives.
I understand the authentic concerns of everyday Americans, and completely sympathize with them.
She has an approachable face and a face you want to sympathize with.
With that in mind, I sympathize with any desire to reject cooking altogether.
" Said Atkinson: "You have to sympathize with the fans, and I'm an NBA fan.
People who do not support or sympathize with the movement are likely to dissent.
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's junior coalition partner, sympathize with Macron's call for solidarity.
Instead, as always, the figure we're most meant to sympathize with is the Doctor.
But Bertha is not someone we are asked to sympathize with, and Jane is.
More important, if the jurors can't see a bit of humanity, they cannot sympathize.
The students believed Obama might sympathize with them because he had a Kenyan father.
The point isn't to sympathize with these people or to excuse what they do.
Numerous users have written in to sympathize and to share their own similar stories.
I also could sympathize because I've been a fan of Serena my whole life.
Governments such as those in Hungary and Greece "openly sympathize" with Putin, it said.
As sad and empty as Lacie's quest is, she's quite easy to sympathize with.
One can certainly understand, if not quite sympathize with, House Speaker Paul Ryan's predicament.
Some leading Jordanians hesitated to condemn his killing, appearing to sympathize with the militants.
Do you sympathize with any of the concerns of people who oppose illegal immigration?
Rarely has society's tendency to sympathize with powerful men been so thoroughly on display.
People who have thought similar thoughts and reacted in ways you can sympathize with.
Is it because I sympathize with Rothko's refusal to be definitive in this painting?
But I can understand African-Americans' aversion to them, and I sympathize with them.
I sympathize with Oklahoma's desire to gain funds to cope with the current situation.
I sympathize with a lot of things that he's gone through in his life.
Some seem to sympathize with the Ramseys, while others voice biases against the family.
I think as humane people we can all sympathize with that and agree with it.
I sympathize with them, because they have to sell my ideas up the ladder corporately.
The vice presidential candidate went on to sympathize with Clinton and other women office-holders.
We watch Breaking Bad to sympathize with an antihero and test our own moral compasses.
"To those who condemn the practices of this community, we sympathize with you," Gravity_Horse wrote.
Fraser, like many on the left, tends to attack the rich and sympathize with the
But Thiel's Ahab-like mission to destroy it has been even harder to sympathize with.
I sympathize with the impossible position in which the Republican National Committee (RNC) finds itself.
Nearly 400 lawmakers in both the House and Senate seem to sympathize with the argument.
She said, I'll put it another way: You instinctively sympathize with perpetrators instead of victims.
So I very much sympathize for [Kardashian West], and I felt for her right away.
Yet we sympathize with her, we understand her feelings because they are also our own.
To me it's not one or the other; I sympathize with a lot of people.
Did writing this column sometimes have the paradoxical effect of making you sympathize with companies?
But somewhere along the Deer Hill odyssey, he started to sympathize with his insurrectionist opponents.
I hope people sympathize, not only with the deportation angle, but with the family dynamics.
To sympathize with these revolutions in the 1920s was acceptable, given their original high ideals.
Now, some 40 percent of Hong Kongers ages 15 to 24 sympathize with such views.
I sympathize with the desire to hold Trump accountable for these acts in some way.
History tells us that to influence Kim, we must empathize (note: not sympathize) with him.
I sympathize with people who think the media's too obsessed with searching for presidential doctrines.
"Most of the time when parents lose a child we sympathize with them," she said.
And many non-Muslims assume that religiously adherent Muslims must sympathize with the jihadist cause.
You should not take Big Mama, though I sympathize with her breakup (and love of skiing).
"I think people don't sympathize when people are body shamed for being too thin," Kardashian says.
It's a sentiment many mothers facing an empty nest can sympathize with, in some twisted way.
Theda Skocpol writes: At least half of all GOP voters sympathize with this Tea Party upsurge.
"We sympathize with everyone affected by this unfortunate accident from 2006," Toyota said in a statement.
Though it may be hard to sympathize, devil facial tumor disease threatens the creatures with extinction.
I understand and greatly sympathize with the backlog of maintenance issues with the National Park Service.
If you can't sympathize with her bootie plight, though, you don't quite understand — it's an Alaïa.
"Despite the fact that Puerto Ricans are not immigrants, we sympathize greatly with that," he said.
All I can do is sympathize with the state of mind Babchenko must have been in.
Nick: I tend to sympathize with viewers who think The Walking Dead has too many characters.
I can sympathize with those points of view, with people who think it's trivializing or disrespecting.
He understood, intuitively, that if you're driving the story forward, the audience is primed to sympathize.
He vents about the world of academia for a little while, and I try to sympathize.
Democratic partisans are professing outrage at this, but it's hard not to sympathize with the GOP.
If you can sympathize with that person, it helps to think of the bullying more logically.
We all sympathize with the talented ones, because they so often look and sound so lost.
Sarah Heyward, the writer who crafted the episode, is hardly asking us to sympathize with Hannah.
And while I sympathize with his relative, I also worry that she is being grossly careless.
Grifter stories work because you don't sympathize with any of the people who are getting conned.
Or do you sympathize with the people responsible for printing the money — after all, mistakes happen?
Before we begin, let us say that we sympathize with the bad luck you are experiencing.
She was widely seen as credible, and not just by feminists inclined to sympathize with her.
A jury with black people on it, he reasons, won't sympathize with Beverly Hills white kids.
Obviously there are millions of decent men in America who listen, sympathize and apologize every day.
"I can sympathize with people showing restraint because they want L.A. to happen," Ms. Konrad said.
Fox's opinion hosts tap into — and sympathize with — a deep vein of concern about cultural displacement.
Most Muslims watching this debate would probably sympathize with Mr. Rose, thinking he was defending them.
I'm not too familiar with his case, but he may find people who sympathize with him.
On Monday, the four conservative justices on the bench appeared to sympathize with the administration's challengers.
Most Americans, Pew found, sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians — a standard finding in these polls.
He is thoroughly unlikable, and we sympathize with Sumac's resentment when he takes over her bedroom.
By the end of this book, I don't want readers to sympathize with Sarat, the protagonist.
Wade decision protecting abortion rights, his writings seem to indicate he'd sympathize with the pro-life cause.
We cry, laugh, fight, create, love, sympathize, dream, just like like the rest of the human race.
Are you momentarily disinterested in it for reasons I don't need to know but do sympathize with?
"I can sympathize with their concern," he said, referring to women who are worried about Zika virus.
"I sympathize with people who do not want to vote for Clinton or Trump," Salazar-Dodge says.
Here are 217 valuable pieces of "adulting" advice from Reddit users who sympathize with aging teens. 193.
Again, we want people to look this tragedy in the face and, hopefully, sympathize with the victims.
It is difficult to sympathize with people who have the power levers possessed by the White House.
She cannot help but sympathize with Clift, who is a very morally ambiguous person in the film.
I really sympathize with the fact that he can do anything, especially when you see him live.
"I sympathize and empathize with them on that issue, and I support research-based expansion," he said.
The main way the show has of making you sympathize with Neal is pairing him with Lee.
Family and friends know how angry I am about it, but all they can do is sympathize.
The reader, however, is hard pressed to sympathize with the idea that he did not understand Bellow.
I really sympathize with the people who are working on this response within the government right now.
While 74 percent of Republicans sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians, only 33 percent of Democrats do.
For instance, after the Orlando shootings, Trump conspiratorially implied that President Obama may sympathize with the attackers.
Still, I can sympathize with the younger feminists who are pushing the limits of the #MeToo movement.
They help you sympathize a little more with Bobby, even if you like him a little less.
The possibilities for really humanizing that violence and its consequences expand as you sympathize with multiple characters.
His supporters also sympathize with what he has had to endure since the day he was elected.
Kim Kardashian West can sympathize with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid the couple's intense media scrutiny.
Johannes's musings on the page attempt to get readers to sympathize with him, an unsettling emotional exercise.
"If I put myself in the shoes of an endowment manager, I can sympathize," Mr. Philips said.
I sympathize with them and I take the burden of these rare events on my own shoulders.
Ordinary Japanese sympathize with Akihito's desire to retire, but Japan currently has no legal provision for abdication.
"This is why wives murder their husbands," Sam (Basit Shittu) says, charmingly, and we can only sympathize.
We are, somehow, supposed to sympathize with Jim, and wish for him to win back Aurora's heart.
The pity parties are over, the group explains, but Amber seems sympathetic, approaching Villanelle after class to sympathize.
The women of SNL, along with host Saoirse Ronan, are here to let you know that they sympathize.
The poll found 48% of Democrats sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians, as opposed to 83% of Republicans.
And when everything about their lives looks this gorgeous, we have no choice but to sympathize with them.
It's one of the reasons it's so much easier to sympathize with TV Cersei compared to Book Cersei.
I've experienced enough storm-related outages to sympathize with anyone who lacks electricity for long periods of time.
Listen to the long, meandering conversations between these faux cowboy criminals and try to sympathize with terrible men.
While plenty of great stories star unlikeable characters who are difficult to sympathize with, Arky remains generally uninteresting.
At one point, Duckworth reminded McCarthy that she does not completely sympathize with the EPA's position on Flint.
We're supposed to sympathize with them, I think, though the problems they encounter don't seem all that significant.
TIM, BROOKLYN I believe there was, but I still sympathize with the ugly corner you were painted into.
A medievalist might sympathize with Crusading Europeans, for example, indeed believing that "Deus Vult" was a righteous motto.
Vartanian, and several others I spoke with, are parents; they can understand this impulse, even sympathize with it.
John Cornyn of Texas, the second ranking Republican in the chamber, seemed to sympathize with his Democratic colleagues.
"We do not condemn the Court, we sympathize with it," for having its hands tied, the statement continued.
The AI can't sympathize over a bad dice roll, or laugh maniacally when you fall for a trap.
Asked about the robocall, Mr. Trump seemed to sympathize with its message while affecting a vague half-distance.
And the more we learn about Amy, the less we feel able to sympathize with Jacob and Maggie.
"White nationalism" gets buried under "economic anxiety," say, because "economic anxiety" is easier to comprehend and sympathize with.
American liberals sometimes sympathize with the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, out of instinctive resistance to President Trump. Don't.
We grow to fear her father, sympathize with her mother and unabashedly love her courageous big sister Sara.
Given that landscape, it is hard not to sympathize with the coal miners, their families and their communities.
Cinema has often perpetuated revulsion of people with physical deformities even as it purports to sympathize with them.
That said, as a television writer myself, I can sympathize with the pressures and deadlines of network comedy.
The more we sympathize, the more we see their activism as a sign of how bad things are.
Trump likely found new reasons to sympathize with the disgraced governor in the wake of the Ukraine scandal.
It's hard to sympathize with the oppressed when they are acting as the instruments of their own oppression.
Yet, even as I sympathize with their position, I can't deny I have benefited personally from this exploitation.
Remember to sympathize if a customer appears especially flustered, and try to remember that everyone has bad days.
The exhibition's title also suggests that imagination can enable us to sympathize with their experience of the world.
"There is some interesting social science that shows that if you're disposed to sympathize with someone beforehand, and that person is in a confrontation with someone else who you're not disposed to sympathize with, you tend to be way more aggressive toward the person you don't understand," Manne told Illing.
Ironically, it feels like the show is reducing her to a womb Obviously, I sympathize with a mother's love.
Generally, I tend to sympathize with the bulk of the president's agenda, but I think his messaging is broken.
Mrs Klebold has endured the unendurable, and it was hard not to sympathize with a mother in her grief.
I know we're meant to sympathize with him because of his abusive father, but it all felt very textbook.
That poll found that a majority of Democrats, like virtually all American demographics, sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians.
For anyone who has ever been a reader, there's much to sympathize with in Maryanne Wolf's Reader, Come Home.
No one knows another person's situation, but we can all sympathize with the hard choices life throws our way.
But it's also a little weird for Netflix to sympathize with the fans' suffering, considering it's all Netflix's fault.
While they broadly sympathize with the Palestinians, they rarely take up arms against the country or its Jewish majority.
Like many Americans, I sympathize with those foreign families, some seeking asylum and all dreaming of a better life.
To the Editor: As a scientist who has conducted nonhuman primate research, I sympathize with John P. Gluck's concerns.
Of course I sympathize with those small-business owners who are facing challenges as result of this trade war.
I expect teacher union leaders and elected officials who sympathize with them to continue their attacks on school choice.
CLINTON: And I of course sympathize with members of the families who are still, you know, very much grieving.
For me, it was better to find other women [to vent to], because he could only sympathize so much.
While they broadly sympathize with the Palestinians, they rarely take up arms against the country or its majority Jews.
It's an experience all women can sympathize with, since it's been happening to us since the dawn of civilization.
The report shows that while 79 percent of Republicans sympathize more with Israel, only 11 percent of Democrats do.
Twenty-six percent of those who said they were unaffiliated with a religious group said they sympathize with Israel.
So, while we sympathize with your plight, please understand that we're not going to just "grant" you the money.
I sympathize with someone who wants to stay in the U.S. badly enough that they'll work in poor conditions.
Karen's relentless self-doubt and hypocritical attitudes to race and class make her a hard character to sympathize with.
I sympathize with everyone impacted, including many members of my own family (my parents and siblings live outside Houston).
Kali, whose Instagram account has made her one of the leading voices in the acne-positivity community, can sympathize.
I also sympathize deeply with his parents, who believe that the college should have contacted them about his difficulties.
I sympathize with Decius's concern about revealing his identity—he's worried about being doxxed and having his family harassed.
Men sympathize with alleged abusers because himpathy puts them in the shoes of the victimizers, rather than the victims.
You don't have to agree with protesters beating up Trump supporters, or even sympathize with them, to understand this.
The psychological reasons women stay are naturally less visible, making it hard for many to understand and sympathize with victims.
And despite a record gender gap, plenty of women sympathize with Republican policy views — and made their 2016 choice accordingly.
I sympathize with Zuckerberg's reluctance to become a censor of speech or the one that determines what news is accurate.
We certainly sympathize, but we promise you'll see the wait was worth it the minute you take your first bite.
And no one had to witness their victimization in order to sympathize with them and express outrage against the shooter.
I sympathize with "kids should be polite to digital assistants" proponents, but this is exactly why audio interfaces bother me.
Now Johnson's daughter opens up about her hardships because she knows her mother can sympathize and has endured them herself.
Yes, there are small fringe elements in uniform who sympathize with the vulgar and despicable hatred on display in Charlottesville.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Cowan reviewed Redstone's video deposition privately, and appeared to sympathize with the ailing Redstone.
The public won't sympathize with the press when Trump attacks because he is articulating much of what the public feels.
While I sympathize with people who suffer hardships, why would they think they should be relieved of their financial obligations?
When confronted with this season's tottering tower of new travel literature, I found it easy to sympathize with poor Pascal.
I sympathize less with premature speculation about whether the fire might have begun in arson, and if so by whom.
You're more likely to sympathize with someone in your social group rather than an outsider, especially one who looks different.
I don't know that I identify with any one character, but I sympathize with some of them at various points.
Certainly, we can sympathize with trying to find the "authentic" and non-consumerist side of the holiday season in 208.
He cannot sympathize with the cook who might stake his or her self-image on having Castro Street's best naan.
Other Republicans, meanwhile, have distanced themselves from the protests — even if they sympathize with frustration over federal land management.  Rep.
Follow the results of this research and others will be far more likely to understand and sympathize with your perspective.
But Ibsen, Mr. Rem said, "makes it impossible to sympathize with Stockmann completely," because he is self-aggrandizing and elitist.
Some sympathize with the aims of the protesters but not always with their tactics, such as defacing the legislative building.
In it, he reprimanded his mother sharply for appearing to sympathize with the grief Ms. Bro felt over her daughter.
It offers us a chance to sympathize with her without making her particularly sympathetic — quite a trick, but it works.
Three legal experts said the defense appeared to assume white women would be more likely to sympathize with Weinstein's accusers.
Three legal experts said the defense appeared to assume white women would be more likely to sympathize with Weinstein's accusers.
What is important is that Jacinda is able to build a movement of New Zealanders who sympathize with the victims.
And the candidates, at their near-empty meetings, have insisted that they sympathize with the goals of the protest movement.
Sympathize with him all you like, but at least notice that his politics demand the elimination of the Jewish state.
Effects like light, motion and especially sound can lead us to sympathize with an appliance as mundane as a vacuum.
"I don't sympathize with either Trump or Hillary Clinton," said Yelena Arakcheeva, 55, a manager in the communal services industry.
First, I sympathize, as always, with the dilemma of the copy editor trying to fit "undocumented immigrants" into a headline.
It is hard not to sympathize with that longing, especially given the brutal suppression of Iraqi Kurds under Saddam Hussein.
In a case where Slate's readers would instinctively sympathize with the accused, or someone who might have been wrongly accused.
It doesn't mean that pain isn't real; it just means it can be harder for some to sympathize with it.
There are others, however, who sympathize with his position in the wake of increased crime and insecurity in the country.
These people fear the public may eventually sympathize with the F.B.I.'s argument, especially considering the heinous nature of the crimes.
Schwarzenegger, who came to the U.S. in 1968 at age 21, went on to sympathize with those affected by the order.
I think there are legitimate concerns out there, which I sympathize with, but I don't think this phrase pinpoints them accurately.
I can sympathize with selling recycled phones; I'm all for reducing as much e-waste as possible as the next person.
It's never clear how much Lynch should actually trust Sofia, or how much the audience is supposed to sympathize with her.
That's why we can't help but sympathize with the doozy Kristen Bell pulled out on The Late Late Show Wednesday night.
We're only talking $20 a month, but it feels as if he doesn't appreciate my labor or sympathize with my condition.
It's hard not to sympathize with her, even as she's vastly oversharing with her son, who watches, wide-eyed and bewildered.
People are only willing to support redistribution if they believe their tax dollars are going to people they can sympathize with.
We also talk about her wedding planning, which I can sympathize with since I just went through this process last year.
We sympathize with the plaintiff's family but firmly believe the safety of cosmetic talc is supported by decades of scientific evidence.
Most of their potential followers, they suspect, are soft headed and faint hearted, and some might even sympathize with the victims.
While the subject matter seems surprisingly mature – how many kids watching Incredibles 2 will sympathize with a lonely middle-aged parent?
But she also appeared to sympathize with the administration's position, noting that fewer than 100 of those detained have been deported.
The remedy is worse  We sympathize with our friends in the steel and aluminum industries who are affected by unfair trade.
If you can adjust to the idea that you're not meant to sympathize with anyone, Lady Macbeth is quite a film.
I sympathize with those who believe that Hillary Clinton represents a tired, compromised, laggingly conservative wing of the Democratic Party leadership.
He's the one who said that what she missed was TV. "I fully sympathize with your cat here," he told me.
Many philosophers sympathize with the "psychological continuity view," which says that our memories and personality dispositions make us who we are.
"I absolutely understand their fears, and I sympathize, and I want to make sure that day never comes," the mayor said.
Despite being staunchly pro-choice, I was primed to sympathize with the bill's supporters more than ever, given my personal circumstances.
As much as you sympathize with their plight, Gotham's downtrodden can be as callous and vicious as the rich and powerful.
In treating college students and suicidal patients every week, I sympathize with universities' challenge of balancing individual autonomy against paternalistic care.
But Dawson's series is structured to fight this, making you sympathize with the challenges he's faced selling merch in the past.
They told me that they sympathize, but that our town is just "too conservative" to let me use a men's room.
But we know even that within our midst, there are Americans who sympathize with those who seek to destroy our freedom.
If he could, he would sympathize with every animal, and yet he can't expand, at will, the scope of his imagination.
All the more reason you must sympathize with Lucas, who had to come up with heavily original storylines for the prequels.
The companies who mainly finance it are banks, oil, and energy companies, which do not sympathize with a hypothetical Catalan state.
Much as we may have wanted to sympathize with such a forgivable human error -- who hasn't experienced this kind of anxiety nightmare?
It's easier to sympathize with someone who wants to do what's best for their child with the resources they have, she says.
But even if you empathize or sympathize with someone (two different things!), that's not the same as engaging in a compassionate act.
Some reporters describe Paris syndrome as too privileged a condition to sympathize with, merely a laughable first-class problem afflicting fragile travelers.
And many onlookers find it hard to sympathize with ranchers who appear to be getting a pretty sweet deal from the government.
"Every movement writ large has people who sympathize with it and are willing to use violence to accomplish its goals," he said.
Find something you sympathize with that is already working hard on the ground and help elevate its PR to the next level.
Moonlight culminates with a Brokeback-style scene encouraging us to identify and sympathize with Chiron's masculine stoicism — much like Ennis Del Mar's.
"The key, as with any other story, is for the audience to sympathize with or relate to the main character," Robbins said.
I think that she must testify, but it's a massive understatement to say that I sympathize with any hesitation she may feel.
"I sympathize very much for those for who food is a bigger percentage of their spending," he said during a news conference.
Cat owners can sympathize with the struggle that is trying to get important things done in the same space as a cat.
In fact, I think I'm actually a pacifist at heart, and I still sympathize with those who are abused, injured, or victimized.
She says the program has taught her to be open and honest, to sympathize with people and to look at things differently.
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said viewers would sympathize, knowing what it was like to struggle into work with a sore throat.
Mr. Sanders's young, liberal supporters say they sympathize relatively more with Palestinians and less with Israel than older, more moderate Democrats do.
At least that's the core argument of the game, and anyone who has worked for a comically evil company will immediately sympathize.
I don't think there's a non-evil character as despicable as Theon, or one that book readers, in particular, sympathize with less.
Prosecuting victims of domestic abuse can be particularly delicate, given that jurors might sympathize with a defendant they see as a victim.
Asked whether they sympathize more with Israelis or Palestinians, Republicans answer the former nearly seven to one, according to a Pew survey.
Anyone who has been an intelligent, responsible, diligently overachieving older sibling will sympathize with what I see as Mr. Domingo's predicament here.
Perhaps that is why so many players, eager to sympathize but wary of joining Kaepernick completely, have instead stood and locked arms.
Though Fleck/Joker commits despicable crimes, showing what the character is undergoing psychologically could allow audiences to sympathize with him, Phoenix said.
So maybe you can sympathize when I say it moves me to see SanDisk's 1TB microSD card because holy moly it's real.
"If the prisoners are released, then maybe our hearts and the hearts of our children will sympathize with you," she tells us.
After seeing the extravagant way the royal family's summer palace was decorated, I could sympathize with the Portuguese for overthrowing the dynasty.
" "How can any nation that claims to sympathize with the people of Iran keep sustaining trading relationships with lawless and oppressive ayatollahs?
At a news conference, the three former Conservative lawmakers predicted more defections, saying many lawmakers are known to sympathize with the rebels.
"I sympathize with the problems of the protesters who want a better standard of living, jobs and less economic hardship," she said.
"Chinese colleagues also deeply sympathize with the problems countered today by farmers in the U.S. agriculture and animal husbandry industry," he said.
But maybe a future civilization will find them, and sympathize with our collective fear that we couldn't stop what was to become.
It is arguable whether forcing Franken out of government was productive or appropriate, and I sympathize with the idea that it was unfair.
The pressure for an heir eventually reaches breaking point, and it's difficult not to sympathize, even if you're not a teenage-girl viewer.
I have been fortunate to have some pretty lucky experiences, but I have heard and can sympathize with people absolutely loathing the holiday.
Given the tepid recovery and increasingly volatile global financial system, it is easy to sympathize with calls for ever more accommodative monetary policy.
I certainly sympathize with viewers, those who've become accustomed to the pacing of more modern TV dramas, finding "The Next World" too slow.
So we can sympathize with a man in Australia who was hell-bent on ensuring nothing came between him and his glorious vacation.
It wasn't so much that I didn't sympathize with my wife, but my own misery left me less able to cope with hers.
The only route past hurt, that I see, is to sympathize with how your news (initially, anyway) may provoke reflexive anxiety in others.
Kurth said his personal experience in finding his place in a united Germany in 1990 helped him understand and sympathize with his character.
Many are thought to sympathize with protesters' complaints about the economic situation but do not speak out for fear of retaliation by authorities.
One of the reasons that "UnREAL" is so absorbing is because it never lets us sympathize with any single character for too long.
Still, some sympathize with Okinawans' sense that the United States occupation of their island, which formally concluded in 1972, has never truly ended.
Irizarry said she had never experienced racism to that degree, but could sympathize with victims of other racist incidents she has seen online.
It is hours later in the series that it becomes near impossible to sympathize with the jealous narcissist who continually battered his wife.
Huffman was the amiable can, the one we could all sympathize with as he was pummeled by fists and life and a woman.
But Mr. Buhari recently angered residents by traveling to a lavish wedding before heading to Dapchi to sympathize with the missing girls' families.
Even those inclined to sympathize with that premise politically may feel insulted by the plot hole-a-palooza offered here to support it.
I sympathize with this passionate urge to help the dead speak, rescue a voice of love that has been silenced forever by violence.
Although they are currently off-season, he says he would sympathize with the teachers even if the strike did cancel games and practices.
I tell B. that I need him to sympathize with me and validate my emotions instead of always trying to turn them around.
However, when I explain an individual case of a family of migrants and what they have been through, people will understand and sympathize.
Media credibility is quite low and most news consumers aren't going to sympathize with the news industry, even when Trump makes boorish attacks.
I'm lucky to work with people who sympathize with their colleagues' disappointments (both on and off the page) and rejoice in their triumphs.
"We are deeply troubled and saddened by the allegations and sympathize with everyone who has been hurt," the festival said in a statement.
Hochschild, although writing for readers unlikely to sympathize with such views, engages her subjects in good faith, seeing them as kind and intelligent.
Indonesia and Malaysia say thousands of their citizens sympathize with IS and hundreds are believed to have traveled to Syria to join the group.
And of course it all centers on the confronter's stated mission: to expose and catch child sex offenders, predators seemingly impossible to sympathize with.
Trump has been vocal in his support of Brexit and is more likely to sympathize with Johnson and Davis than he is with May.
This creates a situation where even anti-racist stories are unable to represent or sympathize with the suffering or struggles of non-white people.
The school system repeatedly said this year they sympathize with frustrations about the overall problems and the financial restraints impacting students, parents and teachers.
We implore you to be kind to each other, to believe survivors, to stand up for survivors, to encourage, support and sympathize with them.
It gives them a way to position themselves as victims, to invite their audiences to sympathize with them and their sad life of persecution.
More complex still are attitudes about the ideological causes or demographic affiliations that might lead jurors to sympathize with one party or the other.
When she later vents to Littlefinger that the Northern lords seem to be wavering in their loyalty, it's hard not to sympathize with them.
But as the protagonist keeps failing to take advantage of openings for escape, and other people pay the price, it becomes harder to sympathize.
That Ed Sheeran cameo was on the level of Jimmy Fallon randomly appearing in Band of Brothers for exactly NO reason I can sympathize.
With this close bond to his pets, Wilson can sympathize with the difficult choices pet owners living in domestic violence situations have to face.
At first, the book states, Justice Harlan, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Eisenhower in 1954, did not sympathize with the clerk's view.
"Different for Girls" — not Joe Jackson's "It's Different for Girls" — insists that women can't power through breakups like men can; he's trying to sympathize.
The militants and residents who sympathize with them say they want a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth to go to the impoverished region.
I do my best to sympathize with those who suffer from identity politics even though I may not comprehend the basis of their pain.
Put another way: Caitlyn Jenner may be able to sympathize with the fact that members of the trans community have been marginalized and oppressed.
The big picture: People are unable to sympathize with prisoners, but they might understand if they look at the situation as economics, Peril said.
Or maybe they sympathize with Conrad, who was undoubtedly under pressure from the board to have his company live up to the incredible hype.
In the meantime, we've developed an antitrust critique of the tendencies of American capitalism of the last 20 years, which I truly sympathize with.
In her recent collection of lectures, "The Origin of Others," Ms. Morrison emphasizes the existential challenge and moral call to sympathize with the stranger.
Some saw a system and a society that was quick to embrace and sympathize with Ms. Ruszczyk, a benefit that black victims rarely enjoy.
Encouraged to sympathize with the wrongfully accused professor, the play's final act of violence toward a young woman has even been cheered by audiences.
The only way to reach over that and get people to sympathize with each other is to make them believe that we share something.
Do we have the right to publish and to gaze at images of black bodies, so as to sympathize with their suffering from afar?
It must be possible to sympathize with Israel and show understanding of Zionism's historical conditions but to refuse any sympathies to the alt-right.
You look back on the truly bonkers story of Cadet Kelly and sympathize with how much bullshit Jen really had to put up with.
Some people may have a hard time handling it, but that is what makes it easier to sympathize with and understand more about it.
The police actions have especially alienated younger people, many of whom view Hong Kong as a distinct place and sympathize with calls for independence.
Or sympathize with the trauma she quite clearly experienced -- whether or not you believe she is telling the capital "T" truth of the matter?
Matt: I sympathize with our retail sisters, since I work in print journalism, which has been losing jobs since God was in short pants.
There's no superiority here, just an artist humbly baring himself before his audience, trusting them to understand, sympathize and receive his bid for intimacy.
"However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority," Kavanaugh wrote.
Meanwhile, Grindelwald has escaped his American prison and is rallying wizards who sympathize with his desire to take over both the wizarding and mundane worlds.
Instead, it focuses on the killer's infamous charm to such a degree that it makes you wonder whether we're actually meant to sympathize with him.
It presents characters who have opinions, lives and frames of mind that are not your own and invites you to sympathize with and understand them.
So I can sympathize with any country regardless of their beliefs -- whether I agree or not -- that they are tired of suffering so many casualties.
The idea: Black jurors are more likely to sympathize with black defendants, so getting them removed from a trial would make a conviction more likely.
Mahathir said in a joint press conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday that he believed China would sympathize with Malaysia's "internal fiscal problems".
But as a designer, I have to sympathize a little with that timidity; it comes from not knowing, just yet, what's baby and what's bathwater.
Several prominent Armenian political commentators said the men appeared to sympathize with the Founding Parliament opposition group, which they said did not enjoy wide support.
The hyena—a smelly, hairy animal associated with witchcraft and androgyny—was an alarming creature to sympathize with, but it was fitting for Carrington's sensibility.
She knew that Ronald Reagan, 38, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, was a staunch anti-Communist who would certainly sympathize with her predicament.
All the members of his large ensemble find revealing new shapes within archetypes and insist that we grasp and even sympathize with their characters' perspectives.
But others, even in criticizing the vicious response to Pougetoux, sympathize with the idea that ostensible displays of religion might clash with French union culture.
"Reading 'Naked Lunch' gave me a completely different view into addiction that made me sympathize with my father's situation and helped me cope," he said.
While I sympathize with lawmakers who are forced to choose between modernization and growing the force, the continued support of AIAMD is not a choice.
According to a January survey by the Pew Research Center, just 27 percent of Democrats sympathize more with Israel than Palestinians in the regional conflict.
While I sympathize mightily with the family in this instance, in no way can they rationally expect allergen-free environments outside of their own home.
" Alpha males are dominant, tough, brutish, and have regular sex with attractive women; betas are weak, emasculated, and sympathize with so-called "social justice warriors.
The candidate suggested Obama might sympathize with radical Islamic terrorists, which the Post initially reported as Trump suggesting the president was involved in the attack.
So when men who aren't divine, but harbor a bit of the divine spark, look back on their sinful lives, Jesus can sympathize with them.
In a move that many working moms might sympathize with, she still continues to check her emails from home, after having dinner with her kids.  
The jokes at Sean's expense don't negate the fact that "Papi Chulo" expects its audience to sympathize with Sean even when he disregards Ernesto's boundaries.
"On human rights, of course we sympathize, but you know as far as the passengers are still there, they have to provide the service."Dr.
Some, like Liu Chang, 34, who moved to Hong Kong with her family from the mainland two years ago, say they sympathize with the locals.
What's interesting about it, in the two episodes available for review, is that while we might sympathize with Jane, we're not pushed to like her.
"Ovarian cancer is a devastating diagnosis and we deeply sympathize with the women and families impacted by this disease," Ms. Goodrich said in a statement.
I know, in varying degrees, the candidates, and admire them all; I sympathize more than most with their various episodes of lighting themselves on fire.
"I can sympathize with a young officer's instincts to want to intervene off duty in what he perceives to be a crime," Mr. Scott said.
In daring the audience to sympathize with Czolgosz, or with Hinckley, it undermines any sense of protective distance from the heinous acts they carry out.
According to a Pew poll released in released in May, more liberal Democrats (40 percent) sympathize with the Palestinians than do with Israel (33 percent).
Even just one shot of unrest beyond the palace gates would help viewers sympathize with Ellaria and cast Doran's inaction in an entirely different light.
As you can see, it's really hard to sympathize with these guys, because they're bringing such a sweeping critique that it's, frankly, hard to believe.
" But he did sympathize with his parents' struggles, and when his father, a bartender, went on strike in 1984, young Marco became "a committed union activist.
Volokh said he could understand why a trial court colleague might sympathize with Justice Goodson, but Judge Martin's ex parte order was not the right reaction.
Instead, Edgar eventually runs into another veteran who can actually sympathize with him, and tell him without any bullshit how he can make it out alive.
Whether you refuse to go number two in public, do your doody in confidence, or have a special ritual to make it easier, we can sympathize.
I really don't at the moment because I think of himpathy as a pathological tendency to disproportionately or excessively sympathize with the male point of view.
I can't sympathize with her around his death, but Myrcella and Tommen weren't monsters, and her pain over them is a little easier to empathize with.
Sources familiar with the bank's thinking say a growing number of policymakers privately sympathize with the call for more time and flexibility on the inflation target.
Eve, Psyche, and Pandora would all sympathize with Elizabeth here — the lure of forbidden fruit can be powerful, but the punishments for seeking it are severe.
And the answer to the question "Is there a mind in there?" is a key predictor of how much we sympathize and empathize with one another.
The audience has sort of been led to turn on Chuck in some ways this season, and now we instantly sympathize with him in this episode.
I traveled further down a path of disillusionment and began to sympathize with those crazy conservatives who were always complaining about liberal media bias on FOX.
It's hard not to sympathize with her: All three of Sansa's remaining siblings returned home with inconceivable, other-worldly abilities, and all she got was Littlefinger.
Delta residents, some of whom sympathize with the militants, have long complained of poverty in an area producing oil accounting for 70 percent of national income.
Here's a highlights reel: In all honesty I can't say I'd behave any differently to Post—as a person who is frightened of everything I sympathize.
You might sympathize with liberal politicians and journalists, not to mention conservative Never Trumpers, who can't understand how this so-called farce-presidency can go on.
Opinion polls show the vast majority of ordinary Japanese sympathize with the emperor's desire to retire, but such a step would need changes to the law.
He said the system would ensure people who sympathize with terrorist groups or who have negative attitudes toward the U.S. would be not be allowed entry.
Meanwhile, a new Pew survey revealed that the share of liberal Democrats who sympathize more with Israel than the Palestinians has shrunk markedly in recent years.
"I sympathize with her a lot…because in 2012, I was attacked in Paris," Campbell said, to the shock of both Williams, 52, and the audience.
"People would hear us, would see us and understand our difficulty, would sympathize with our plight and would grant us our new school building," she wrote.
Do you sympathize with their desire to have an animal right now, or do you think it is not a good time to have a pet?
May's colleagues put their best gloss on events, arguing that her performance had illustrated her determination, and that voters would understand and sympathize with her predicament.
"Rohingya Muslims should not be allowed to live on this country's soil and those who sympathize with them should also not be allowed to live here."
We're meant to sympathize with the Parks of The Host, just as we are with the Kims, and even the Parks, of Parasite; they're just people.
"On human rights, of course we sympathize, but you know, as long as the passengers are still there they have to provide the service," he said.
Sympathy, as in, I sympathize, my heart goes outward to you— outward to you, as in, You over there, stay over there, don't come any closer.
With flashbacks of his dark childhood, sitting alone in front of the television with no one around, the audience can't help but to sympathize with him.
President Trump has resisted extraordinary pressure to release his tax returns, and as someone who struggles with some of the very same issues, I can completely sympathize.
But especially because it's doomed, I very much sympathize if left-YIMBY politicians or activists want to come out for it as a matter of coalition politics.
But the majority of Twitter did not sympathize with the former governor of South Carolina, with many seizing the opportunity to criticize both her and the president.
But neither Kurds nor Shias, he says, sympathize with Sunni Arabs after years of Hussein's dictatorship and the violence that filled the power vacuum after his fall.
We, the audience, are meant to sympathize with the crew and their ingenuity of getting Newman to metaphorically see the light and take back his harsh words.
Kevin has not experienced any of the distress that his brother describes as he has never been a victim of abuse and can only sympathize with him.
One of the most potent extinguishers of prejudice is a shifting perspective—when people are made to understand and sympathize with a viewpoint different from their own.
I strongly sympathize for that married woman who deeply loves her husband, but whose DNA braid has been lit at the ends and suddenly dissolves in flames.
We sympathize deeply with all the parents who have received the dreadful news that their child has died, and with the victims' other grieving relatives and friends.
I sympathize with Surface Chief Product Officer Panos Panay's reasoning that USB-C still hasn't become as widely adopted as we'd all hoped it'd be by now.
You can sympathize with the William Morris crew though: they bought the UFC during its biggest boom period and a lot of that has rapidly fallen away.
Much of the book revels in obfuscating information, making the reader sympathize with the characters' inward confusion and struggle to make sense out of a senseless event.
If that's something you've experienced firsthand — for better or for worse — then you can probably sympathize with the Siberian husky whose dramatic haircut is currently going viral.
We completely sympathize with Kelly's pride and joy that his orange bloom survived despite drowning, mold, and strict procedures that just didn't work until he overrode them.
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On Monday, Rouhani said Trump has no right to sympathize with Iran because he has called the Iranian people "terrorists," according to Iran's semiofficial Tasnim News Agency.
McInerney's characters aren't what anyone would call saints, but they're so richly drawn you have to respect the way they think and sympathize with their moral conflicts.
It is easy to sympathize with her, because of the extreme views of some of her colleagues and the formidable nature of the task that she faces.
I sympathize with that woman who has to work at that donut shop and deal with sketchy dudes like Al doing god knows what in her bathroom.
But that moment when he couldn't gloss over his emotion with a joke was the standout — and one that many crushed Clinton supporters may sympathize with today.
But Stone said he could sympathize with the position Facebook's executives find themselves in, because they must equally serve the customers they agree with and disagree with.
If Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate, this population and those who sympathize with it may find Kavanaugh's rulings and Court participation to lack authority and legitimacy.
In the middle are the broad mass of medievalists, who may sympathize with one camp or the other, but mostly want to stay out of the fray.
"Ovarian cancer is a devastating diagnosis and we deeply sympathize with the women and families impacted by this disease," said Carol Goodrich, a spokeswoman for the company.
"Disenchantment" is the first Groening show where making you sympathize with the characters appears to be as much of a goal as making you laugh at them.
" Lest anyone fear that this is just Trump-bashing, let me sympathize a little with the candidate on his comments linking PTSD with a shortage of "strength.
"I think we could all sympathize with what each other was going through, and trade tips about making it through long shifts on our feet," she said.
The royal was criticized for appearing not to sympathize with Epstein's victims after defending his friendship with the convicted sex offender during his interview with BBC Newsnight.
Instead, they throw everything they've got at him in a rage-filled panic that's not hard to sympathize with, but is nearly impossible follow, let alone enjoy.
When you work every day with individuals, when you hear their rationalizations and sympathize with their decisions, you can lose sight of the structures shaping their behavior.
I can't help but sympathize with the new generation of Attica COs, who enjoy less generous pensions and closer scrutiny while paying for the sins of their predecessors.
But it does represent a horrifying form of invitation — not just a call to sympathize with the devil, but a full-blown justification for the hell he creates.
The compelling drama of an affair — the entertainment value and the emotional pull — typically arises when we can vicariously sympathize, even if just a smidgen, with the cheaters.
Because just like it's easier to sympathize with people you understand, it's harder to accept facts that force you to discuss your own complicity in another nation's implosion.
While we sympathize with the publishers' predicament and value the economic construct that supports journalism, forcing the consumers' hand with draconian measures is not the way to go.
But digital technology has made it relatively easy for purged elements — along with younger figures who sympathize with the purged — to simply launch new publications such as VDare.
"Ovarian cancer is a devastating diagnosis and we deeply sympathize with the women and families impacted by this disease," Carol Goodrich, a representative for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
There are roughly three million people of Turkish descent in Germany, many of whom are culturally and religiously conservative and sympathize with Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party.
Meanwhile, S&P chief economist, Paul Sheard told CNBC on Thursday he was probably "more in the Draghi camp" when asked whether he would sympathize with Weidmann's criticism.
"It has a lot to do with it being less passive and admittedly I can sympathize now that I have a job," PhenOm20, one of the farmers, said.
So that made it easier, in a way, to relate to and sympathize with characters who were fighting for the Soviet Union and had to battle against that.
We sympathize with your pain and, in the hope that this will prove at least a bit cathartic, we've summed up the nine stages of slow-buffering grief.
Some find it easier to sympathize with people they can see than with people about whom they read, and I'm eager for the film to reach this population.
Delta residents, some of whom sympathize with the militants, have complained for years about widespread poverty in an area that accounts for 70 percent of Nigeria's national income.
Another angle: In mainland China, many Western-educated professionals who might be expected to sympathize with the protesters consider them foolish for valuing individual rights over economic prosperity.
But his spooky falsetto on OK Computer made you sympathize with that creep, who now sounded as if he was serving a life sentence in a Robotropolis prison.
The party used to sympathize with separatism, but to win control of the state parliament, it joined hands with the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party three years ago.
She starts to sympathize with them, but is brought up short by a young man expressing bitterness at being punished for rape without actually getting to rape anyone.
If it's possible to sympathize with any of these large adult children, it's because all of them have been psychologically and in some cases physically abused by Logan.
I sympathize with folks who voted for him with good intentions, but they must now recognize what danger he represents for the United States and indeed the world.
I don't know too many Indians, for example, who go around rejoicing when Australia beats England in cricket—if anything, the tendency is to sympathize with the English.
In Orange County, RHOC O.G. Vicki Gunvalson admitted to "fabricating" a cancer lie with boyfriend Brooks Ayers at the time to get her cast mates to sympathize with him.
But it's also garnered plenty of support among those who agree with his arguments and those who sympathize with his claim that Google has fostered an ideological echo chamber.
As a result, some of these officers may begin to sympathize or connect with community members as individuals -- prompting police to treat people from these communities with more respect.
If you do have friends or family who have been directly impacted, it's tough to find the right words to express that you sympathize with what they're going through.
He seems to sympathize with Menendez, a Democrat who was facing federal corruption-related charges before a mistrial was declared last November and the government later dropped all charges.
It asked people if they sympathize with cutting tariffs or think they are necessary (1978 to 1998) and whether they favor agreements to cut trade barriers (2004 to 2014).
If you don't sympathize with the pro-gun minority, then substitute in one you do—political dissenters, or vegetarians, or a racial or ethnic group, or a religious minority.
Watching Jonathan fuss at him about laundry and their bed-making routine like some kind of remote-control Felix Ungar, it's easy to sympathize with him, even sight unseen.
If you needed something to persuade you to eat more salads, I totally sympathize and am here to tell you that Kickstarter may have just the thing for us.
"Everyone feels like they can just push the Like button, and that's an important way to sympathize or empathize with someone," he said during a Q&A in 2014.
A boost to your psychic abilities arrives—you know just what to say to get someone to understand and sympathize with you (and you, yourself, are feeling pretty sympathetic!).
While Greek politics no longer features assassinations by violent urban guerrilla movements, some members of self-described anarchist groups still sympathize with the aims of older generations of militants.
I sympathize – I spend a lot of time on Google trying to figure out how to do relatively basic things like fix a toilet pump or wire a doorbell.
And like the characters on "Cheers," the series referred to earlier, the regulars at Daphne's make up an informal family whose triumphs and troubles we come to sympathize with.
They may sympathize with fascist ideology, or they may have passed through the ranks of a far-right party at some point, but they are not acting on orders.
"So many of these things that God brings us through are to be able to empathize and sympathize and do something about the issues, the challenges," Sarah told Dobson.
Personal, because they suggested that being liberal may have contributed to my struggle to fully sympathize with poor white men—even the one I was falling in love with.
And if you refuse to comply with the rule and the co-op board takes you to court over the matter, a judge might not sympathize with your plight.
" (Always, girl, always.) You sympathize with Chloë Sevigny as she ventures to her isolated seat, remarking, "I'm going to be all by my lonesome just like in high school.
But it's easy to sympathize with the feelings of rage and hopelessness experienced by those left to die in Los Angeles, who will never know what they died for.
Being able to sympathize with his terror as unseen puppeteers manipulate him is crucial, and the fact that I could was almost entirely thanks to Lawther's incredible, vulnerable performance.
"Ovarian cancer is a devastating diagnosis and we deeply sympathize with the women and families impacted by this disease," Carol Goodrich, a Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman, said in a statement.
"I did want to sympathize but, really, I was more worried about overcooking the fish," Henry writes, in " How to Eat a Peach ," her eleventh and most recent cookbook.
"We recognize the disruption that Coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused, and we sympathize with all affected," the SXSW employee wrote in the letter, which was shared with Business Insider.
He wrote dozens of manuscripts that he meant to be discovered after he was gone, hoping and trusting that future generations would better sympathize with his more radical thoughts.
Two years ago, Democrats were more likely to sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians by a 14 percentage point gap, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
"By refusing to denounce the crime, and to sympathize with the Dirkhising family—or to acknowledge Jesse Dirkhising in any way—HRC only bolsters the unreasonable claims," he wrote.
Anyone who has been a tourist can sympathize with the irritations — blistered heels, missed meals, wrong turns and late arrivals — that set in train a fateful series of misunderstandings.
The presence of Sara Weaver, though, sets an emotional tone — it's impossible not to sympathize with her and by extension her family, even though who shot first remains murky.
American embassies appeared to sympathize with an Iranian woman who feared returning to Iran after an image of her looking like she was not wearing a hijab circulated online.
Many of us know what it's like to be trapped in debt to some degree; it's not that hard to sympathize with the skeletons stuck in an underground distillery.
That puts many "remainers" in a quandary, and may make them reluctant to vote for Labour, particularly if they do not sympathize with Mr. Corbyn's brand of leftist politics.
You sympathize for American politicians to a degree — they can't get through a few phrases without another round of applause and it cuts into the time by a lot.
In interviews and a series of statements for this story, Trump's allies on the Hill say they sympathize with Trump's frustration with the department after being investigated and impeached.
Still, the songs mostly backfire dramatically by forcing us to sympathize with characters, especially Adams, whom the book otherwise wishes us to treat as objects of surprisingly coarse satire.
A large majority of Americans say they sympathize more with the Israeli side than the Palestinian side in the conflict, but rank-and-file Democrats are split roughly 50-50.
"Anyone who has ever moved into a new house or apartment can sympathize with the idea that when you have a budget you sometimes have to make concessions," he admits.
Maybe you think she's a little too cold and maybe you think 'I don't trust her,' but … I sympathize for strong women that go out there and get it done.
Even the monstrous Hulk works okay in CGI; the clarity of his features makes them more expressive and sympathetic, which is good since viewers are supposed to sympathize with him.
When GOP House Whip Steve Scalise meets with Parkland, Florida students he'll sympathize with them like no other Republican can right now ... he, too, was shot during a brutal attack.
All taxpayers can sympathize that the government often uses our money for causes we don't believe in, but that doesn't give us a First Amendment right not to pay taxes.
According to a Pew Research Center survey in April, self-described liberal Democrats were twice as likely to sympathize with Palestinians over Israel than they were only two years ago.
Trudeau's lukewarm reception, according to media reports, was due to India's concerns about Trudeau's perceived soft approach to Sikh extremist groups in his country, and those that sympathize with them.
As fellow global citizens linked through our humanity, we sympathize with the relatives and friends of the 17 people killed at Iran's parliament in Tehran, and certainly with the victims.
Our society largely views men as more important than women, and so the default is too often to sympathize with the perpetrators of sexual assault rather than with the victims.
Furloughed workers and those who sympathize with them have begun to realize the wall will not feed their families, keep their lights on or make sure their mortgage is paid.
The reasoning here is that as a matter of basic psychology, we are all inclined to help and sympathize with those whom we feel have something in common with us.
It can seem that Khakpour is daring the reader to find her draining, histrionic, inconsistent, to sympathize with doctors who may view her as what Dusenbery calls a "heartsink" patient.
As a physician living and working in a community with too many under and uninsured patients, I sympathize with the impulse underlying the Democratic Party's utopian "Medicare for all" Act.
I sympathize with the anger Kavanaugh must feel if he believes he's unjustly accused, and the pain he and his family are enduring, regardless of the veracity of the allegations.
That's all thanks to Goodman's crafty performance that makes viewers sympathize with Howard and confidently agree with his logic, while wondering what kind of wine he'd serve with Michelle's liver.
If your body isn't playing well with gluten, then you'll also sympathize with the our preference for using honey for brewing—like Ethiopian t'ej (honey wine)—instead of grain malt.
I understand and sympathize with the Clinton campaign's decision to emphasize how uniquely bad Trump is; their task is, first and foremost, to keep his short fingers off the button.
In the PBS tribute, colleagues recalled her ability to connect and sympathize with ordinary people, as was evident in her work on the Oklahoma City attack, which killed 168 people.
It's not a tough sentiment to sympathize with, but considering the government's history of handling it, the moon bag may be better off with someone who can accurately identify it.
" While the companies "deeply sympathize with plaintiffs' losses and are committed to combating the spread of terrorist content online," the motion reads, they are not liable for these "heinous acts.
I think there's a way for characters to be relatable, and you can sympathize with them, but at the same time root for them to get what's coming to them.
No. 2, I think it was a disgrace for the Irish to remain neutral in World War II. And No. 3, I sympathize with the Palestinians in the Middle East.
"I can only imagine the lasting anguish that the families of the victims must feel, and I sympathize with their devoted efforts to find justice," he said in a statement.
"I really sympathize with kids that go to school and see every other girl has the Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson palette, but they don't and that sucks," Fish said.
"It's the detachment of the Labour Party from great swaths of the country, which they seem not to sympathize with," said Robert Tombs, a historian at the University of Cambridge.
This is a delicate maneuver, which cannot be executed by fiat, because Hefazat has a committed power base among its members and people who sympathize with its aspirations for Shariah.
Crude sales from the Delta account for 70 percent of national income in Africa's biggest economy but residents, some of whom sympathize with the militants, have long complained of poverty.
Labour's membership is relatively critical of Israel — polling data shows that Labour voters are more likely to sympathize with the Palestinians than Israel, while the reverse is true among Conservatives.
As a Latino immigrant who regularly receives bigoted messages online, I sympathize with this: The idea that I have to engage with people who are hateful toward me sounds backwards.
I sympathize and identify with all of them too much to ever aspire to the kind of domineering arrogance that defines Higgins, and a million inferior characters in his image.
As the gains of the civil rights movement are eroding, as white nationalism subsumes the White House, it's hard not to sympathize with Thomas's pessimism about the possibilities of political progress.
Those who sympathize with the protesters face Chinese fury and financial backlash; those who try to placate China draw accusations of cowardice from protest supporters in the United States and elsewhere.
But Metz said he doesn't fault Waymo for being overly cautious, nor does he sympathize with Phoenix residents who have complained about getting stuck behind a slow-moving self-driving car.
Trump&aposs extreme-vetting policy on immigrants entails more stringent investigative measures intended to identify those who may sympathize with extremists or pose a national security risk to the United States.
But this emphasis on Kendall's pure intentions and heart of gold actually move us further away from any meaningful conversations about race; and they certainly don't make me sympathize with Jenner.
Whether you sympathize with their plight or not, you should care about how the committee can address this dysfunction and what this truly means for our democracy in the long run.
I should say here that I count myself among those who both sympathize with the central cause of O'Bannon's lawsuit, and also among those who miss EA Sports' NCAA Football tremendously.
The worst villain is usually the one whose motivations you can sympathize with and understand, someone redeemable that just went down the wrong path of pillaging the homes of innocent villagers.
Even if you understand and sympathize with obsessive documentary travel, summer can make anyone feel as uncharitable as Percy felt toward that poor sightseer at the lip of the Grand Canyon.
He did not seem to sympathize with Epstein&aposs victims, however, and gave bizarre alibis for a claim from a woman who says she was trafficked to have sex with Andrew.
I sympathize with the practicality of the guideline, and understand that it is aimed mostly at developing readers, but in practice I find the rubric a little deflating for young bookworms.
The rebuttal here is that the danger of keeping Trump in office is too great — a point with which I sympathize, because I fear Trump's incapacity in an unlooked-for crisis.
I was unable to convey it to others, who could sympathize with the loss of the man, but had trouble understanding why the loss of his children was hard for me.
If you don't generally enjoy reading medical journals, I sympathize, and suggest you read the short, easily understandable introduction to the opioid report from Gawande, the surgeon and New Yorker writer.
I sympathize with our counterintelligence officials, who chase low-level leakers and spies even as they undoubtedly worry that their commander in chief may be subject to Kremlin leverage or blackmail.
I think, as a creator, I completely sympathize with the ambition: you want to make the "perfect game" for someone, you want to be able to fulfill their sci-fi fantasy.
It's certain that it has been seized upon by those who support or sympathize with Black Lives Matter as a symbol of the struggle and political moment in which we find ourselves.
The pro-Trump intellectuals seem to willfully downplay this, not care about it, or (in a few cases) even sympathize with the racially resentful as a symptom of some other "economic" problem.
The number was just one point off her all-time high of 67 percent achieved during the impeachment proceedings against her husband in 1998 (Americans apparently deeply sympathize with the aggrieved spouse).
Those who sympathize with the protesters face Chinese fury and financial backlash while those who try to placate China draw accusations of cowardice from protest supporters in the United States and elsewhere.
While Kate decided to become Batwoman instead of joining the Crows, viewers are still meant to sympathize with Jacob and Sophie as they operate a paramilitary organization within a major American city.
Each character can be graded by his or her shifting ability to sympathize with those on both sides of the conflict, and the biggest moral flaw is blind devotion to either cause.
We learn a lot about airplane incidents, such as the time the incident occurred, the route, the passengers, the type of airplane, and we sympathize with the families and the loved ones.
You're meant to sympathize with the men, who are presented as begrudging participants, and laugh or scoff at the women for forcing them to do something as "trivial" as taking endless photos.
"In 2012, I was able to gladly have a discussion with those who supported [GOP nominee] Mitt Romney, and often was able to sympathize with their point of view," she told CNBC.
Psycho is one of the greatest twist movies ever made, ditching its protagonist (Marion) halfway through and forcing the audience to sympathize with a murderer it doesn't yet know is a murderer.
The Santa Clarita Diet isn't the first TV show or movie in which zombies have been played for laughs, but it's one of the few that asks us to sympathize with them.
The only moment we sympathize with operations leader Theresa (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is when she finds herself pinned by Ford's sociopathy—the moment she feels as malleable, and disposable, as a host.
The chief of staff should be introducing Trump to some competent, qualified advisers who sympathize with Trump's point of view and can help him come up with ideas that will accomplish something.
"I am very aware of the consequences of this action, and I sympathize with the DACA recipients whose futures may now be less certain," Duke said in the memo, obtained by CNN.
Far too many mainland employers don't understand that a national has the right be treated exactly as a Citizen on employment matters, and that's frustrating, so I sympathize deeply with those concerns.
Shade raises a perturbing question: Do you root for the planet-skipping alien who snatched a teenage girl's body or sympathize with the trauma-inducing bully who terrorized her friends and family?
Gamergate will then tell people that to oppose it is to be opposed to video games themselves—either you sympathize with Gamergate's politics and goals, or you are not a true gamer.
The CEP poll found that only 11 percent of voters sympathize with Bachelet's Nueva Mayoria coalition and nearly 60 percent of Chileans did not identify with any of the major political parties.
As we pass by blocked drains, runnels of raw sewage, and tents along the lakeshore, I begin to sympathize with his fury, if not agree with all the targets of his anger.
Kim Eun-young, a Jeju native who offers a Korean-language class for several Yemenis, said if any part of South Korea should sympathize with the Yemenis' plight, it should be Jeju.
Does it make it easier for us to sympathize with and like Barry over Hank, and, therefore, make Hank seem like more of a monster, less of a considerate human, by contrast?
Ms. Diallo told us that her husband had gone to a nearby village to sympathize with his friend whose son drowned, two days earlier — along with four other boys — in the Mediterranean.
Even those who sympathize with the protesters have expressed discomfort with the violence and vandalization at times, but the results of the election underscore a very real discontent with the status quo.
It was easy to sympathize with Chang's distress, even if he conveyed pique about not being allowed to open a flawed restaurant and fix it, slowly, while charging thirty dollars for pasta.
"Police face political pressure to sympathize with cow protectors and do a weak investigation and let them go free," Richhpal Singh, a retired senior police officer in Rajasthan, told the rights group.
While I get her vibe that censoring religion is probably unwise, you've got to sympathize with the school—I'd rather show kids The Lives of Others than have to tell them that.
Although, as reported from the inside, many participants sympathize with the protestors, and a committee is even formed to instigate dialogue, very few people step outside the doors to attempt a conversation.
"His suicide has left many unanswered questions and I acknowledge and sympathize with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure," said Andrew, whose title is the Duke of York.
"I want to show that Muslim fashion — hijabi fashion — is something that goes beyond the boundaries of religion and that anyone can sympathize with and enjoy," the 24-year-old told BuzzFeed News.
And, as Jemisin suggests, viewers who find ways to sympathize with fictional undead people, and accept that it's wrong to discriminate against them, won't necessarily translate that empathy to real classes of people.
Listening to the actor perform Levine's monologue at the museum, I could not help but sympathize with the desperation that causes actors to hire themselves out when other professional work is not available.
With the wave of far-right populism sweeping Europe, and the eventful aftermath of our own recent election, we can certainly sympathize with the desire to elect a tried-and-true, beloved candidate.
"You can try to imagine, you can try to sympathize … but nobody understands how it feels to be in a room and literally feel, 'These are the last moments of life,'" she says.
"Sometimes you just have to get that first thing into your body before you can even think about ordering any other takeout," she says, a sentiment with which we can all certainly sympathize.
But none of that made young liberals like Koray Suzer, a 25-year-old fitness trainer, sympathize with the renegade military officers who launched a failed coup against Mr. Erdogan on Friday night.
It's easy to sympathize with the embattled Stockmann when he fights for public health; less so when he delivers a fiery rant against the tyranny of an ignorant majority over an educated minority.
So it's unfortunately predictable that the current Supreme Court crew would sympathize with government officials just trying to "enjoy the perks" of their station, principles of good conduct and good governance be damned.
President Donald Trump disregarded North Korea's fifth projectile launch in the past three weeks and seemed to sympathize with Pyongyang's disdain for joint US-South Korea military exercises in a tweet Saturday morning.
"This is frankly another green light to those who want to come here seeking freedom from the place that they currently are — which I sympathize with," said Representative Doug Collins, Republican of Georgia.
I completely sympathize with the women who have been abused by the Weinsteins, Cosbys and O'Reillys of the world; I found Christine Blasey Ford's testimony quite credible and Brett Kavanaugh's subsequent tirade odious.
For example, an April 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that liberal Democrats — for the first time — now sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israel by a 40 percent to 33 percent margin.
On today's episode: • Maggie Haberman, who covers the White House, offers an explanation for Mr. Trump's tendency to go off script in important international interactions with foreign leaders and to sympathize with dictators.
But I also sympathize with you, because when you support, without conditions and without reason, such a cruel order, the day will come when the same cruel order falls on your own heads.
Crude sales from the Delta account for around 70 percent of national income in Africa's biggest economy but residents, some of whom sympathize with the militants, have long complained of poverty and neglect.
It's turning people who otherwise would never support or sympathize with al Shabaab to consider why it is so easy for a foreign government to drop bombs in Somalia and kill innocent people.
The Kings didn't "win" the DeMarcus Cousins trade if we grade it in a vacuum, but Hield has flashed enough talent to at least sympathize with why they wanted him in the first place.
People online aren't sure whether to laugh or sympathize with a woman who publicized a moment of real panic while accidentally taking out a chunk of her hair on a livestream earlier this week.
The show depicts queer Latinxs as human already, eliminating the need to "humanize" issues of immigration, race, gentrification, class, and violence in border and queer communities so that white audiences can understand and sympathize.
"While we deeply sympathize with anyone suffering from any form of cancer, the science and facts show that her disease was not caused by her use of our talcum-based products," the company said.
But unlike her mother, she tells her grandpa Rick to cut the crap when he pretends to sympathize, because she knows he used her love life as a power trip to prove his point.
The requisites in actual representation are that the representatives should sympathize with their constituents; should think as they think, and feel as they feel; and for these purposes should even be residents among them.
I agree with Slate's Jamelle Bouie that, in attempting to sympathize with the plight of the downtrodden white who voted for Trump, we are in danger of perpetuating a false narrative of white innocence.
But while it's easy to sympathize with Aldo's concerns about what that approach is doing to the soul of the sport and of the fighters in it, there's no arguing how effective it's been.
"It's pretty hard to sympathize with a dead, white piece of calamari 30 feet long," said Mah, as an explanation for why squid videos like the most recent one accrue such a captive audience.
What we do know is that he's easy to sympathize with, thanks to his relationship with his father, and fun to worry about, since there's no guarantee he'll make it out of Saul alive.
But if those struggles are unfamiliar to Mr. Macron, a millionaire and former investment banker, many who study climate change goals sympathize with the Yellow Vests and support making relief part of the package.
That digital rights and press freedom advocates might now sympathize, if not agree, with Sri Lanka's action "is a damning indictment" of companies that once portrayed the platforms as vehicles for liberation, he said.
"Democrats continue to embrace and defend the most vitriolic anti-Semites in their midst, who sympathize and side with terrorist organizations who want to wipe Israel from the map," Glassner said in an email.
She said she understood the pain of losing a family member and that she was dismayed by accusations that she does not sympathize with families whose loved ones have been killed by the police.
An aging but committed feminist, a child of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, she's perturbed that she finds it so easy to side with the man and so hard to sympathize with the women.
Besides referring to Christ and Socrates, he argued that the anti-Park rallies had been organized by communists who sympathize with North Korea, a belief held by some of the president's older, conservative supporters.
While I sympathize with the obvious logistical challenges involved in trying to sit down with real-live ISIS theologians, the armchair quality of the people Wood features here can make his discussions feel abstract.
The other is that while rank-and-file Democrats sympathize with a lot of progressive policy positions, there's very little evidence that the bulk of the party is looking for a massive ideological overhaul.
" The lack of access to hygiene products is an issue all women can sympathize with, Ms. Purvis said: "You tell a woman that another woman can't afford tampons and pads, you have her attention.
And it's also the point where I personally start to sympathize with the villain, who is 24 years old and having to do some tough growing up in front of a nation of judgmental viewers.
"What we are considering now is a strengthening of our strategy to collect donations... to make people and companies who sympathize with our work committed for the long term," said Nora Ritok, head of Igazgyongy.
As such, survivors who come forward still routinely face vicious character smears from people who sympathize with the accused, or who just don't want to believe that sexual assault is as common as it is.
While today's coffee addicts can undoubtedly sympathize with Balzac's insane coffee consumption as a productivity booster, according to two new major studies, there may be another big benefit to binging on bean: a longer life.
" While everyone seems to sympathize with the gay students, they seem to have a license to make him feel ostracized and attacked, and it hurts, Mr. Bischofberger said: "They're calling me a cisgendered, hypocritical homophobe.
Moss is an exceedingly resilient figure, who gives up almost everything for her mission, and it's easy to sympathize with her as she struggles to handle the alternate versions of the futures that she visits.
"Although anyone who has had a difficult flight experience can sympathize with the plight of Ms. Cooper" after "what should have been a trip of a lifetime," Caproni said no jury could rule for her.
Fiction has to have a certain structure: give the audience a protagonist with whom they can sympathize, put an obstacle in the protagonist's way, make him enter a moral quandary about how to solve it.
It introduced new characters and expected us to sympathize with them like we did the characters we've known all along — even when these new characters decided to slaughter villages for the sake of slaughtering them.
Moreover, federal courts across the ideological spectrum might well sympathize with the administration's claim that it cannot safely administer the expedited transit programs without access to personal information uniquely available through state motor vehicle records.
You don't need to sympathize with the fictional Charles Manson and his followers, — whose ideas were uniquely horrific, to simultaneously notice the creep of a certain economic and political conservatism in Tarantino's supposedly final film.
While I fully sympathize with the parents' desperation for any support they could garner, what was worrying was that like in many other cases, religious groups offered support in order to further their own agenda.
My failure to sympathize with the birds—which, thanks to the drones and the Arabs and the fecal particulate, appeared to be suffering an unprecedented genocide—was no doubt attributable in part to my hangover.
"I'm thankful to have a big family that's still honest with me," he said, noting that "Black Panther" pivots on the conflict between T'Challa and Jordan's orphaned Killmonger, both of whom he can sympathize with.
Now, I'm the only one of Bartola's grandparents close enough to take on this role, where I don't just sympathize with her parents' attempts to help her kick her kicking habit, but join the campaign.
It uses them as a way to connect you to this character interactively through a shared experience, even if you didn't grow up in the '80s, which in turn makes it easier to sympathize with Kid.
Indonesia and Malaysia are not only home to the world's largest Muslim-majority populations—each also has local militant networks that sympathize with IS' agenda, so a Trump administration could intensify the efforts of those groups.
And, it seems Jane The Virgin will sympathize with whatever results we uncover, as it does with Xo. Sometimes people find their worth in their most appealing assets, and there's nothing more human than that truth.
So while Democrats are quite sympathetic to Israel, they also believe Palestinians deserve a state of their own — unlike Republicans, who tend to sympathize with Israel in much larger numbers and be skeptical of Palestinian statehood.
When people see others in their social group subjected to harm because of their membership in that group, they don't just sympathize with that suffering — they feel as if it had happened to them, as well.
Rather than managing the war effort, the National Unity Government is divided between those strictly anti-Taliban, those who sympathize with the Taliban, and those who are hedging their bets on which side will ultimately win.
Members of the Freedom Caucus look at their moderate colleagues' recent actions and some sympathize, saying it's a side effect of leadership's resistance to bring up bills that aren't already guaranteed reveal schisms within their ranks.
"Quite honestly, being gay, I have stood with my hand over my heart during the national anthem and felt like I haven't had my liberties protected, so I can absolutely sympathize with that feeling," she said.
And the looming threat of Pastor Tim — whom the show is increasingly making us sympathize with — hangs over this entire episode, a Chekhov's gun that could go off in numerous different ways, all of them awful.
But even in cases like this one, with lots of video evidence, convictions are far from assured, and jurors often sympathize with officers who say they had to make a life-or-death decision in seconds.
In the photo, she's the target of dozens of cameras and microphones — that's what happens when she steps outside the bubble for even a moment, which makes you appreciate, or at least sympathize with, the bubble.
But the longer the investigation proceeds without finding convincing evidence of malfeasance, the likelier Americans will draw the conclusion that Trump is right to call the investigation a witch hunt and begin to sympathize with him.
As in: He may sympathize with the victims but he also likes Rob Porter (and Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly and Roy Moore) and tends to believe them over the accusations made against them by women.
One can almost sympathize with them: If it wasn't for their decision to attach themselves to the most unlikely president in modern history, there's every reason to think they might still be working their frauds today.
A common refrain I hear among negative guys is that it's tough to sympathize with poz-identified men when there are various methods to avoid contracting the virus altogether in a post-1980s AIDS crisis world.
It is a lot of people, and you want each one to have a comedic perspective and to understand where they're coming from, so you can sympathize with them and relate to them and root for them.
One has to sympathize with the contestants on this show, struggling to stand out in a room (or on a driveway?) with dozens of other luminous contenders, and amid an aging reality television landscape where tropes abound.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday he believed China would sympathize with his country's "internal fiscal problems" as he seeks to renegotiate, or possibly cancel, more than $20 billion in Chinese-funded projects.
I always like villains where you understand what their motivation is and you sympathize with it, and as powerful as she is, she's a victim, and her powers are really more of an affliction than anything else.
As someone who was once responsible for doing that for a local news station (a much smaller venue than, say, Twitter), I can sympathize with the toll seeing all those racist, abusive messages takes on your psyche.
"The Gulf rift has cast a shadow on the government and could split it as ministers linked to Islah sympathize with Qatar," a senior official in the Yemeni government, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
So long as they're laughing, viewers are forced to sympathize with characters they might not meet in their day-to-day lives, and that leads to familiarity, which leads to a kind of acceptance, at least onscreen.
Women received settlements "I sympathize with the officers, but I have a very high standard for the application of deadly force, and the shooting did not meet that standard," Beck told reporters a year after the shooting.
He was widely criticized as appearing not to sympathize with Epstein's victims and for relying on alibis such as a meal at Pizza Express and an apparent inability to sweat in an attempt to disprove Giuffre's claim.
In 22019, when asked if they sympathize more with Israel or the Palestinians, 50 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of Democrats said Israel; in 2018, those numbers have diverged to 78 percent and 27 percent, respectively.
So I, for one, can sympathize with the four men who had to be rescued from England's highest mountain this weekend after "becoming incapable of walking due to cannabis use," as the local police force put it.
A series of Instagram Stories posted by Kaley Cuoco over the weekend have started making the rounds on Twitter as people accuse her of inappropriately shaming her assistant — but as a fellow mushroom-hater, I can sympathize.
At the same time, the Republican base has become more fervent in its support for Israel — 87 percent of Republicans sympathize with Israel, up from 59 percent in 2001, according to a Gallup poll conducted last March.
A Pew poll last year found that support for Israel among Democrats and independents has fallen and support has risen among Republicans and that Democrats are divided over which side in the conflict they sympathize more with.
These attacks likely have the goal of spying on the Uighur population in China, the Uyghur diaspora outside of China and people who sympathize with and might wish to help the Uighur in their struggle for independence.
In light of recent news that Wells Fargo fraudulently opened thousands of customer accounts, it's not hard to sympathize with peoples' mistrust of Wall Street, especially for groups that have already been tough for banks to win over.
More specifically to Puerto Rico's demographics, research has shown that people are simply much less likely to sympathize and empathize with those who belong to other racial groups, and as a result, they're less willing to send help.
Grantham ­Fellowes (learned, austere, immensely vain, who "couldn't sympathize when the country people wanted televisions and refrigerators") and their sexy mocking mother, Jill, who, liberated by the 1960s, escaped to bohemian London with her left-wing journalist husband.
In the end, DC Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz gave an instruction to the jury noting that it was not a crime to be present or sympathize with the views of people who become violent during a demonstration.
Here is what the raccoon looked like in this moment: We all know the feeling of being too bloated to remove yourself from the sewer, and we can all surely sympathize with what this raccoon was going through.
In an interview earlier this week with Fox News's Sean Hannity, Trump said there may be a "softening" of laws, indicating that he has come to sympathize with families who have lived in the U.S. illegally for years.
While we appreciate the work of the law enforcement community and sympathize with their mission, there is a reason why the entirety of the cryptographic, cybersecurity and tech communities have been unequivocal in their perspective on this issue.
And while I, too, tend to sympathize with such movements, this time I am unconvinced, for a specific reason: I understand the difference between self-determination and ethnic nationalism, and Catalan independence is an expression of the latter.
Many people will sympathize with Mr. Vargas's story but recoil at his bold conclusion, as it seems to imply support for open borders — a position that no Republican or Democratic member of Congress supports or even takes seriously.
There are no joys for which we can sympathize together because we have allowed ourselves to become so angry, so egotistical that we have forgotten that egoism is not what propelled America to being such a great nation.
The modern-day Robin Hood film is just as fun to watch as it sounds while making us sympathize for the two leads, Destiny (Constance Wu) and Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), who would do anything to support their kids.
It's almost as if the process of becoming comfortable with large beings scares me in itself, and based on my track record of telling my peers, people aren't too quick to sympathize with someone who's afraid of large objects.
Like the ensemble Heder writes for on Orange Is The New Black, Tallulah's characters all have notable flaws, but it's easy to sympathize with their struggles, and with the way a few bad choices spiral rapidly out of control.
And since we know more than the office does, by setting us up to sympathize with the hosts, the show makes us acknowledge how we usually read trauma in a story, and the degree to which we accept it.
ERIC NIELSEN Reston, Va. To the Editor: Syria after five years of civil war (the Lebanese civil war lasted 15 years) is in such horrible shape that one must sympathize with Nicholas Kristof's cry that something must be done.
Rouhani said that Trump had no right to sympathize with Iran because he has previously called the Iranian people "terrorists" and has been "constantly creating problems" for Iran since being elected, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
Although the capacity to sympathize with others' suffering is widely hailed as an essential virtue — Mr. Obama has said the world is suffering from an "empathy deficit" — there's a downside that has inspired a lively debate among social psychologists.
You can see there are a lot of people in that upper left quadrant who, regardless of which party they vote for, in practice sympathize with Democratic positions on the size of government and GOP ones on cultural traditionalism.
While there hasn't been much overlap between the two families over the years, Kim Kardashian West recently gave an interview where she said she can sympathize with Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle amid the couple's intense media scrutiny.
In degrading the mayor of San Juan and engaging in personal and political disputes, President Trump and his administration have missed the opportunity to sympathize with and support Puerto Rico, an island with more U.S. citizens than 2628 states.
"Some are hard core and will stand and fight and die in place, some will want to escape, some will attempt to quietly quit the fight, and some will sympathize with the enemy but are not now participating," Col.
"Some are hard-core and will stand and fight and die in place, some will want to escape, some will attempt to quietly quit the fight, and some will sympathize with the enemy but are not now participating," Col.
If he is lucky, he will meet fellow wounded men and they can bask together; or, with more luck, a motherly hostess of the bar (chumo, or quite literally, the mother of liquor) would sympathize and refuse his money.
With the exception of Morgan, whose pacifism has been bookended by periods of complete reversions to violent stances, none of the characters with whom we sympathize have ever been fully committed during this season to peace-building without violence.
If 451 were a series — even a miniseries — the drama would have time to flesh out who Montag is and how, exactly, he comes to sympathize with the "eels," or book-reading rebels trying to take down television's latest authoritarian regime.
Norton's performance is, as per usual, outstanding, and Lionel is a fully formed character—not one we sympathize with because of his Tourette's, but one we empathize with as a flawed, deeply human protagonist struggling to do the right thing.
It seems like C.K. is doing his comedic, self-deprecating best to take viewers to uncomfortable gray zones with him, where one could sympathize with his confusion and see how an in-the-moment misunderstanding could easily spiral out of control.
A solidarity aiming at transformational change—the horizon toward which solidarity must now, of necessity, be directed—demands we not just recognize and sympathize with the plight of others but also join them as equals, reaching across differences without erasing them.
And years before we were...encouraged to sympathize with Carrie Bradshaw (a monster I will never stop loving) over the rest of the friend group in Sex and the City, I knew who I was supposed to want to be like.
"I can sympathize, and maybe even empathize, with the argument of a Christian person who grew up in an era before 'Happy Holidays', when the only religious thing you'd see at this time of year was about Christmas," said Rabbi Geffen.
Never mind that there is no Brexit deal that would "work" for Brexit proponents and the EU; Corbyn, who, unlike much of his party, appears to sympathize with the Brexit project, stolidly refuses to entertain the idea of a second referendum.
That response seems disproportionate, but the common thread between all creative works that use emotions as characters is that they ask you to sympathize with the interior life of a symbol that wishes it could represent more than one thing.
I can't say I learned anything new about Doss or his fellow soldiers in those scenes, but the sheer pummeling of gunfire, explosions, and shattered limbs compelled me to sympathize with them in a way that earlier scenes never could.
By contrast, while there are some real questions about whether Clinton can match Obama's turnout operation, there's no reason at all to think that people who sympathize with Sanders's critique of Clinton are going to suddenly go vote for Donald Trump.
She continues on to say that she loved Nirvana (grunge, my girl) and that Kurt Cobain's death had a real impact on her but her mother, who could "only sympathize so much," made her leave her room and have dinner anyway.
If somebody comes up to you and says, well, the boss said I'm being laid off because we don't have enough business to pay me, that person feels bad about that, we sympathize with them for having lost their job.
"This appeal has now provided an opportunity for people to misconstrue my ideas into a distortion that suggests I sympathize with sex offenses and those who commit them or that I blame the victim involved," she said in a statement.
I know these are special circumstances but there will be many women who will have done this before I have, and I'm about to sympathize with those women a lot, as I sympathized with those women who suffer morning sickness.
But Tuesday's criticism was more cutting than most, arriving just over 48 hours after the deadliest mass shooting in American history — and just one day after Trump blamed immigration for the assault and said the president might sympathize with terrorists.
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We can sympathize with Jessica's sense of suffocation and her escape into the arms of the Christian Lorenzo (a likably dashing Andy Apollo), even as Ms. Pryce gently underscores Jessica's growing ambivalence at her casual, impulsive betrayal of her father.
As such, we sympathize with Republicans like David Frum who have been harshly critical of the party's course but refuse to leave it, believing their presence is necessary to fight to yank the party back to a problem-solving state.
This is complicated by the recent Iranian nuclear deal, which has inched Iran closer to the West; in Europe, some sympathize more with Iran than Saudi Arabia due to the latter's record of mass executions and other human rights abuses.
Scott makes you almost sympathize with the idea of taking out all of that pain and frustration on your fellow man, and when Christmas morning comes and he's ready to begin anew, he sells that with the same quiet stoicism.
If you can adjust to the idea that you're not meant to sympathize with anyone, Lady Macbeth is a glorious, brutal rumination on the limits of power, position, and privilege, and where those borders are — and aren't — able to crack.
That doesn't mean that when the scene has sort of lived out its life and ended, you don't put the camera down and sympathize with them and talk through things that you wouldn't talk through on camera, human-to-human.
Mr. Derfner said he had sensed discrimination against him as a Jew when he applied for jobs at Wall Street firms or socially when he was in college, and could sympathize with the arguments that Asians should not be held back.
The embarrassments of not being able to communicate effectively or to pass as a local remain creatively beneficial for Yang: "I believe that out of the alienation one can mobilize the unusual strength to sympathize with the others," she once said.
The story is robust enough that readers needn't accept Pamela's belief that she'll be "ruined" if she has sex (consensual or otherwise) in order to sympathize with her situation; it's enough that she doesn't want sex on the terms offered.
It's not unusual for some young people to miss the difference between expressive and persuasive communication, and while it's easy to sympathize with the impulse to express oneself, in a democracy failing to grasp this distinction can be a fatal flaw.
Experts said the prosecution may seek to eliminate jurors who say they have been falsely accused of harassment, out of fear they might sympathize with Weinstein, while the defense might excuse people who appear to be activists or favor liberal causes.
And La La Land might be helped by this too, honestly — it's easier to sympathize with a movie that almost won and had its win taken away in embarrassing fashion than an Oscar behemoth that won big prize after big prize.
Still, it's significant that Willer found any results at all, considering the difficulty political scientists usually have in getting partisans to sympathize with the other side on issues such as health care, military spending, same-sex marriage, and English as an official language.
"Although we sympathize with the purpose of the law, which is intended to improve trust within public sectors ... we are concerned that implementing this law could cause big side effects," the Korean Federation of Small and Medium Business said in a statement.
" As the actress Kirsten Dunst squirmed and shook her head in the seat beside him, Mr. von Trier added, "He's not what you would call a good guy, but yeah, I understand much about him and I sympathize with him a little bit.
The fact that he is still ranting, amid all of this work, suggests he may not be able to resist the lure of Twitter—a compulsion millions of Americans can sympathize with, but one that's worrisome, to say the least, in a president.
The need to further understand and sympathize across geographic and cultural boundaries is real and urgent, but the works of Louis and Vance alike risk further exoticizing these poor communities, rendering them not people to be understood but riddles to be decoded.
The only difference is that, as is the case of many issues, the support has become more polarized, with 85033 percent of Republicans sympathizing with Israel versus 27 percent of Democrats; Democrats are now as likely to sympathize with Israel as the Palestinians.
"When a woman complains that her partner is completely absorbed with his new 'friend' — Snapchatting at all hours, texting, making her playlists — I sympathize with her frustration but also clarify that what's bothering her is not just emotional, it's sexual," Perel wrote.
It was reported that he had gone on an eating binge to intentionally forfeit, and he said, "I refused to fight my Israeli opponent to sympathize with the suffering of the people of Palestine, and I do not feel upset at all."
What had made her sympathize with Oliver was the same thing, Hal knew, that made her out of synch with anyone who'd been encouraged to see the world in terms of ever-increasing degrees of power, instead of lessening degrees of freedom.
"As much as I would like to sympathize with my fellow journalists, it doesn't strike me as unreasonable to ask them to own or repudiate vile or impolitic things they might have stated in the past," wrote Jack Shafer, a longtime media critic.
So they may feel affronted when a lawyer clearly doesn't feel that way, or even seems to believe that other actors in the courtroom are taking their positions because they don't understand—or don't sympathize with—what it's like to be poor.
As she stood in the middle of the Octagon with her head slung low as the decision was blasted around the T-Mobile Arena, you couldn't help but sympathize with the woman who brought the female sport to the world's biggest stage.
So for the past several years, that brief ritual has given fans of Barcelona who sympathize with the independence cause the chance to whistle and jeer the song — and the royalty in attendance — with impunity, subverting the stately ritual and exasperating their critics.
"While I understand and sympathize with the argument that when you travel and stay in a Cuban hotel you enrich the military, it is not a zero-sum game," said Christopher Sabatini, a lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
EILEEN SHARAN SMITHGREAT NECK, N.Y. To the Editor: While many of us can certainly sympathize with Nathan Englander's emotions with regard to the hate-filled chants that accompanied Charlottesville's alt-right rally, his feeling of impending doom and gloom is greatly inflated.
"I sympathize with our evacuees, because I already know what it is to be under personal protection, and in them the protection will be much more serious than that of the President," Zelenskiy said in a statement posted on Facebook on Thursday.
They don't need to sit in the back seat of a car to hear the fear an adult is hiding or be forced to sympathize with the loss of a loved one to begin to grasp the precarity of black life in America.
Learning about the sexual abuse and neglect she endured as a 9-year-old, being left alone for days on end by her absentee mother with no food, in a house full of rats and roaches, you cannot help but sympathize with Daniels.
Counterculture in 2015, however you define it, is more populist than it was 45 years ago, and more willing to sympathize with the glamorous; the notion that Tate's life and legend are worth telling is a given, but the book fails as a conventional biography.
Someone at Hacienda Mexican clearly has a dark sense of humor, a nose for controversy, and doesn't give a shit about offending diminutive Mexicans, relatives of cult victims, or the 11.7 million Mexican immigrants living in America—or those who sympathize with the aforementioned groups.
And, hey, sometimes losing Best Picture is the best thing that can happen to a movie's reputation — suddenly, it's not just a movie a lot of people liked well enough, but the victim of a surprise defeat, which is much easier to sympathize with.
It's kind of hard to sympathize with the incumbent industry here, but at the same time we want to avoid a situation like Uber's in which a challenger is mainly competitive because it is cutting corners at every possible opportunity to undercut its opponents.
The show skillfully balances the terror over what he might do to any of his kids or to Rose (all one-season characters who are instantly easy to sympathize with) with a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of how easy it is to become lost in grief.
While I doubt any of the performers are Communists, I don't doubt for a moment that they sympathize with 1920s and '30s Communistic desire to liberate the proletariat; it is loosely the political philosophy that Khaled's "they don't want you..." catchphrase is rooted in.
"As a representative of the industry they're in, it's receiving complaints which I fully sympathize with," the actor, 76, told Sky News when asked for comment about the fact that the Academy has nominated only white actors for the second year in a row.
While it's hard to sympathize with a man who spent years haranguing the parents of a murdered first grader, in a time when the modes and impacts of speech are being redesigned and renegotiated with every software update and platform policy, these are pressing questions.
I received with regret news that the Air Force,working to mop up BH insurgents, accidentally bombed a civilian community in Rann,Borno State I sympathize with the families of the dead, and with the injured, and the Government and people of Borno State.
" And there are two things we can do with that power, Rowling stated: "We can use it to manipulate or control certain people or situations, or we can use it to understand and sympathize with others, thus turning it into a force for good.
And, when you see that, you begin to realize, OK, if Justin is doing this—it is a grey area—but, I'll tell you this: the crew, everyone involved began to really sympathize with Justin and believe what he was doing was something of importance.
And look, even if I firmly believe SB 2827 in its current form would be a huge victory for low- and middle-income Californians, I sympathize with someone who gets displaced from a current house and doesn't have a right to remain in that area.
Johnson & Johnson said in a statement on their website that while they sympathize with the women who have ovarian cancer and who have filed lawsuits, they plan to appeal the decision, as there are two previous cases that ordered the company to pay damages.
Aside from side-eyeing his questioning of why she ran away from him at the drive-in (dude, you grabbed her boob and had just won a dance contest with someone who stole her place), it's hard not to sympathize with Danny a little.
Yacenda: We could very easily have been like, "oh his mom has cancer" and we could've done stuff to make it much easier to sympathize with them, but we wanted it to be a more sort of challenging exercise for them to deal with.
But it's easier to sympathize with Ocasio-Cortez's contention that cost is almost irrelevant if it is required to preserve future prosperity than with political opponents who ask how it will all be paid for, after recently passing massive unfunded cuts in corporate taxes.
Washington (CNN)Former first lady Laura Bush said Wednesday that she wishes the newest first family and President Donald Trump's administration success in the White House, telling CNN's Brooke Baldwin she can sympathize with the pressure and the scrutiny that the family is under.
WELL THIS IS ESCALATING QUICKLY: This morning, Donald Trump tweeted a link to an article that claims President Obama has indirectly supported the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), standing behind his remarks earlier this week that Obama might sympathize with terrorists. http://bit.
Clearly, police didn't sympathize too much for the heartbroken Soundgarden/Temple of the Dog/Audioslave fan here, and ended up giving him an $800 AUD fine ($596 USD) and deducting five demerit points from his license for having a blood alcohol content of 0.07 percent.
Even those who sympathize with their legitimate desire for self-determination in a state of their own get frustrated by their actions at home and on the world stage: setting preconditions for negotiations, glorifying and inciting violence, and campaigning against Israel at the United Nations.
"People do sympathize with her and they very much want her to be the Japanese princess who has the successful happy ending after all the trials she went through," said Kathryn Tanaka, an associate professor of cultural and historical studies at Otemae University in Nishinomiya.
"Because so many free-speech claims of the 25s and 24s involved anti-obscenity claims, or civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests, it was easy for the left to sympathize with the speakers or believe that speech in general was harmless," he said.
His low cunning conspired with his devouring egoism to make him throw off all the restraints of official decorum, in the expectation that he would find duplicates of himself in the crowds he addressed and that mob diffused would heartily sympathize with Mob impersonated.
I have volunteered in that epic system, which is to say I have had to excuse myself from a struggling student to go cry in a bathroom, so I sympathize with an urban kid who might eye a parochial school as her best chance.
For non-fans (from the "I have to have someone to sympathize with in a show, and all these people are terrible" brigade to the "I hear it's great, I just haven't gotten around to it" crowd), there are plenty of other options this month.
It was amusing to see him so enthused about Bastille Day, which celebrates the storming of a building used as a political prison and armory during the French Revolution: It honors the kind of popular liberation struggles against tyranny Trump does not sympathize with.
While the author gives us plenty of reasons to sympathize with the persecuted Yasmin, the artfulness with which she deceives and manipulates is so downright creepy that one periodically finds oneself in the discomfiting posture of cheering on the bullies and the mean girls.
Mr. Li, the university student who studies China's political economy, said Ms. Meng's case had divided students on campus, with some from mainland China tending to sympathize with her plight and others viewing her arrest as Canada merely trying to apply the rule of law.
" Public opinion polls in the last week suggest that somewhere between 70 to 80% of French people sympathize with the contention of the Yellow Vest protesters that Macron "talks about the end of the world while we are talking about the end of the month.
It was brief and concise but made four clear points: It's difficult, of course, not to sympathize with Mueller's view that having written this all down clearly in a report and then said it should mean he shouldn't have to say it again before Congress.
"Nevertheless, the result also stresses that almost half of the Austrian voters in fact did vote for right-wing populist Hofer and seem to sympathize with a very strict stance on Austria's refugee policy and a very distant relationship with the European Union (EU)," he added.
The results stresses that "almost half of the Austrian voters in fact did vote for right-wing populist Hofer and seem to sympathize with a very strict stance on Austria's refugee policy and a very distant relationship with the EU, " said ING analysts in a note.
But at some points, all the talking seems like cover for some limitations in characterization: There's plenty that we're simply told about characters, rather than getting to see it for ourselves, and ultimately that makes it harder to sympathize with them, especially in their biggest emotional moments.
People identifying themselves as Cossacks sent "threatening messages on social networks, saying things like feminism is all about destroying Russian society and the only people who sympathize with feminists are those who have unnatural ways," Tanya Lokshina, the Russian program director for Human Rights Watch, said.
If dramas of individual suffering, like that of Aylan Kurdi, are easier to sympathize with than large-scale tragedies, then perhaps the story of a single wrathful act, like the murder of Mr. Khashoggi, can more readily spark outrage than years of Saudi crackdowns and interventions.
But its title points to a part of the brain that is governed by memory, emotion, and sensation, and as Mia's emotions war with her rational brain, her plight isn't hard to sympathize with — and I wonder how much of it is plausibly in our future.
This is surprising only if we forget that "white millennials vote a lot more like whites than millennials," as the Washington Post noted, and fail to sympathize with the progressive tendencies of millennials as a group that are largely driven by greater numbers of people of color.
But as a writer and student of literature, I sympathize with Paul Bloom's plea to confine "empathy" to its actual meaning, because if we do not, we run the risk of falling into an anarchic linguistic wonderland where words can mean whatever we want them to.
As if being plunged into a film where a dead child is a plot device isn't jarring enough, we're expected to sympathize with Whit, Claire and Simon, all of whom have their own fraught relationships with love, time and death (respectively) in more of the film's heavy-handed theming.
While cat shelters ordinarily seem out of the scope of what Baidu does, the company says that the idea first came to one employee, Wan Xi, who uncovered a small cat hiding in his car last winter and began to sympathize with the plight of other stray cats.
But my heart was broken long before by Polanski, whose work is part of how I learned to love movies, and whose work taught me the early lesson that someone can sympathize with and show a deep understanding of women on screen while abusing them in real life.
And on some level, I suppose I can even sympathize — it has not, in fact, been standard practice to hold men accountable for sexually assaulting women, and I can see why it could feel unfair to be punished for something that so many other people have gotten away with.
I deeply sympathize with the parents who went through that nightmare that will never end, and my contempt is profound and endless for someone such as Alex Jones, who in hucksterish, willfully ignorant fashion claims that Sandy Hook was a hoax designed to shore up support for gun control.
Now, as much as I sympathize with these women -- the Internet can be a pretty terrible place to have two X chromosomes and an opinion -- the bottom line is that Clinton is losing younger women voters to Bernie in droves and so she is both furious and desperate.
It is not yet clear whether most Americans are likely to sympathize with Mr. Trump, and his caustic scolding of the athletes, overwhelmingly black, who engage in certain forms of dissent, or with players who have pushed back against Mr. Trump and called his criticism inappropriate and demeaning.
Although it may be hard to sympathize with the deprivations of the inordinately wealthy, it is every bit as discordant to see midmarket retail chains flanking Billionaire's Row as it is to observe drugstore after drugstore in parts of the city that still adhere to bohemian self-characterization.
I think that if someone can deeply identify at times with some of the crazy activities that the members of Rajneeshpuram engaged in, and then at other times engage or at least sympathize with something that could easily be classified as just white xenophobia and fear of the other.
"Those of us who've been around for a long time take some of those observations with a grain of salt," William Cummings, a criminal defense attorney who's practiced in Ellis' district for 54 years, said about an early Manafort hearing where Ellis appeared to sympathize with the defense arguments.
Men as a group are supposed to benefit when certain men are granted impunity or given absolution for a "comeback," even though it should be obvious that many men do not benefit when you tell them they are supposed to sympathize with the people who assaulted and abused them.
"I sympathize with (parents); they get driven to deep ends," said Curt Decker, executive director of the National Disability Rights Network, which provides legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the U.S. There is a "major, major concern about how their child survives without their care," Decker said.
But it also does contradict the line from the White House in four critical respects: It's difficult, of course, not to sympathize with Mueller's view that having written this all down clearly in a report and then said it publicly should mean he shouldn't have to say it again before Congress.
Rating You don't have to sympathize, or understand exactly where a memorable show's characters are coming from, but if a series is going to make a lasting impression it'll find a way to bring you into the action, instead of leaving you floating on the outside like some lost ghost.
His biggest threat now is from a popular national uprising that, while not associated with a political party, has elements that sympathize with the far-right and far-left and want a radical shake-up — the sort of new politics U.S. President Donald Trump and his former strategist Steve Bannon advocate.
Despite the fact that virtually no details about Artifact were revealed, in a world that already has Hearthstone (and Elder Scrolls Legends, Gwent, and… ), it's hard not to sympathize with those who think that Artifact is just another attempt to cash in on the popularity of digital trading card games.
I dropped in these dark backgrounds with garish lights and street scenes' and that's what fascinated Ridley' because he's an artist and he enjoyed the fact that I could sympathize and illustrate this dystopian world with the vehicles I had been asked to design' all in one little visual package.
" Multiple surveys of public opinion released in the past week suggest that 70 percent to 80 percent of French people sympathize with the Yellow Vests' contention that President Emmanuel Macron and his government "talks about the end of the world while we are talking about the end of the month.
Like "Constitution," which scrutinizes the nation's founding document to see whose interests it leaves out (initially at least, anyone who wasn't a white male property owner), "Anger" and "Belligerence" examine a culture constructed to sympathize with men, to value them more highly, to see women as inherently less deserving of consideration.
When Bannon, Michael Flynn and others try to make Trump into a revolutionary foreign policy president, they will be taking on the entire foreign policy establishment under a leader who may sympathize with them, but is inattentive, unpredictable and basically uninterested in anything but his own status at the moment.
For that matter, Kazin seems to sympathize with the antiwar movement's adamant opposition to the "preparedness" campaign being urged on the nation by more hawkish voices, like that of the almost hysterically bellicose Teddy Roosevelt — calls for the nation to start raising a true modern army and expanding its navy.
There's a lot wrong with that perspective — for one thing, a lot of the modern queers who shit on butch/femme dynamics aren't from the working class, where those identities were born — but it's one I still sympathize with, especially as someone who'd previously been hesitant to claim femme identity as my own.
While I cannot say that I personally identify with the Queen of France, who wakes to a crowd of courtiers ready to dress her in her choice of silks for the day, I can absolutely sympathize with the angst that comes from being a teenage girl searching for her place in the world.
Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE pushed back this week on millennials who say they have it tough, saying he does not sympathize with them.
"While I sympathize deeply with the efforts of families of 9/11 victims to seek justice in the courts, I could not support this bill because of the serious risk that foreign nations will respond with efforts to prosecute U.S. service members and members of the intelligence community," Nunes said in a statement.
It's true that Ellaria Sand has done some nasty deeds—gut-stabbing her country's leader, ordering the assassination of the leader's son and young wife—but I still sympathize with her desire to kill Lannisters and avenge her lover Oberyn (who, in turn, just wanted to kill the Mountain for raping his sister).
But they also tend to be clear about their perspectives, about who we are meant to sympathize with and treat as a reliable narrator within the world of the story, and who is just one more suspect who richly deserves either to be one of the victims or punished as the killer.
And when you dig into the data further, you find that liberal Democrats — the party base, the people disproportionately likely to turn out in primaries and donate to candidates — have come to sympathize far more with Palestinians than with Israelis: The change in partisan opinions on Israel reflects a number of factors.
Behind every special provision is a reasonably powerful lobby group, typically one that can offer at least a halfway persuasive account of why its particular priorities ought to be national priorities — arguments that are especially likely to seem persuasive to Republicans whose baseline instinct is to sympathize with the desire to not pay taxes.
Why, he wonders, do so many African-Americans sympathize with immigrants who are stealing low-wage jobs from "low-skilled natives," and why do the leaders of organizations like the N.A.A.C.P. "tug at their forelock" and docilely support filibuster reform and other "overclass issues that have little to do with ­African-Americans as a group"?
Trump has voiced criticism of the Iranian regime since protests broke out in the country several days ago, earning a rebuke from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who said Monday the US President has no right to sympathize with Iran because he has called the Iranian people "terrorists," according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
Zee: On the flipside, there's a great festival in London called Bent Fest and I think a lot of the artists involved in that scene don't want to go to mainstream spaces because they're either intimidated by those spaces, or there aren't many roots in for them, and I can totally sympathize with that.
The problem that The Handmaid's Tale keeps running into with Serena is that it isn't always able to treat her as a character whose point of view we can understand and sympathize with and as a monstrous person who is complicit in the destruction of America and the torture and rape of thousands of women.
While I sympathize with the argument, I don't see why Auto-Tune should be considered any more of a cheat than overdubbing, another studio trick that, since the days of Les Paul, has substituted the flubbed notes of necessarily imperfect musicians with takes that come closer to perfection (and which Hajdu mentions only in passing).
When I met with Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales, the director of the Finca Vigía museum, she went into a long prelude about Hemingway's relationship with Fidel Castro, Hemingway's two public endorsements of the revolution (one example: "I sympathize with the Cuban government and all our difficulties"), and the time the Soviet minister of trade visited the Finca.
I used the Scuf Vantage for quite a while last year, and while I personally don't think most shooter or competitive gameplay styles require you to have four back paddles to play at a high level (with maybe the exception of Fortnite), I can certainly sympathize with people who've become accustomed to playing with that many additional inputs.
To the Editor: Re "Lawmaker Has a Mother's Role in a Rights Fight" (front page, May 16): While I sympathize with Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's support of her transgender son, I can't help but wonder at the hypocrisy of most Republicans' opposition to gay and transgender rights until they face the issue in their own homes.
Get in touch with your five senses, don't overthink things (that's nearly impossible for you, Virgo, but you can do it!), and remember that any issue in any partnership can be worked out as long as you're both willing to compromise, or, at least, as long as you're both willing to sympathize with each other's needs.
The real-life Rosa, for instance, is a fascinating character—mistreated, disoriented, beset by demons from within and without—and the challenge of inhabiting her empathetically enough to make us sympathize with her Medea-like decision to abandon her four-year-old son would normally be catnip to any fiction writer as good and as serious as Truong.
What's more, if hostile interest groups don't like what you're doing, you can always privately explain to them that you sympathize with what they're saying, and on the merits can see it from their point of view, but politically speaking we have to follow through with the pledge; maybe we can help you out in the future.
Transgressing the norms of femininity onscreen does seem a good place to start in creating a chick flick about the daily struggles of real women, but the transgression has to go so much deeper, permeating the norms that govern the kinds of characters we see and sympathize with onscreen—and the kinds of endings that count as happy.
As harsh as this sounds amid the scenes from Gaza, as problematic as this seems to good-intentioned people whose instinct is to sympathize with the weaker side in every conflict, sometimes there is no better choice than being clear, than being firm, than drawing a line that cannot be crossed by those wanting to harm you.
And while I can sympathize with the feminist who is now reluctantly supporting Hillary because Trump is the only major alternative, less understandable are the great majority of feminists who enthusiastically supported Hillary in the primaries, looking the other way on her sins against women the entire time: feminists like Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, and Madeleine Albright.
" Bryan Waterman, who teaches literature at N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi, told me, "I sympathize with Gulf Labor's concerns, but I have issues with the tactics, which seem to be more about performance and publicity in New York or about an attempt to stick it to the Emirati government than about actual dialogue or possible outcomes for workers' lives.
It's the same dynamic that made it easy to defeat a modest expansion of charter schools in Massachusetts last November: Not only teachers-union-loving Democrats but also lots of Republican-leaning suburbanites, having bought (literally) into the existing system, tend to sympathize with liberal warnings that too much choice could leave their own kids worse off.
Al-Gharbi emailed me: If the idea is that Democrats can win over and mobilize people who did not vote for them last cycle by calling Trump a sexist, and Roy Moore a predator — even if many voters agree and are disturbed by Moore and Trump — many of them can also sympathize with Trump in a sense.
It's all too common for the media and the public to sympathize with an accused rapist because he has an athletic scholarship and a promising future, or because it isn't worth "ruining his life" over one mistake that he made because he didn't know any better: As this is a first offense I can see where leniency would beckon.
" She told Today: "I felt a little bit sad because I wasn't really sure if they were booing at me or if it wasn't the outcome that they wanted, and I could also sympathize because I've been a fan of Serena all my life and I knew how badly the crowd wanted her to win, so I was just emotional out there.
In both Turkey and Pakistan, the U.S. found fickle allies, countries that seemed to sympathize with the very religious extremists the U.S. was trying to stop, and which worked with groups in Syria and Afghanistan that were at odds with the U.S. President Trump has called the wars in Syria and Afghanistan America's "endless wars" and vows the U.S. will leave.
When British tennis star Heather Watson lost in the first round of the 2015 Australian Open citing "girl things" as the reason for her dizziness, nausea, and low energy levels that day, it caused an uproar with a public who didn't know whether to sympathize with her, praise her bravery for finally breaking the silence, or dismiss it as an excuse.
Charlie DentCharles (Charlie) Wieder DentThe Hill's Morning Report — Mueller testimony gives Trump a boost as Dems ponder next steps The Hill's 12:30 Report: Muller testimony dominates Washington Lawmakers, press hit the courts for charity tennis event MORE (Pa.), quipped he could sympathize with Rene Boucher, Paul's neighbor in Bowling Green, Ky., who allegedly tackled the senator over a landscaping dispute.
The episode does seem aware of the friction between framing Jamie as its hero and the fact that he's settling on ancestral Cherokee land, but fleetingly: John Quincy Myers nods along with Jamie's good and peaceful intentions, but when he hears that the Cherokee hurled the Frasers' own boundary sticks into the ground at their feet, he doesn't sympathize much with Jamie's frustration.
But for the first time in 15 years, the poll found that liberal Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel (40 percent versus 33 percent): When Pew broke apart the data by presidential candidate preference, it found something similar: While a majority of Hillary Clinton supporters took Israel's side, Bernie Sanders supporters backed the Palestinians by a 413-33 margin.
Not only are they designed to provoke and intimidate, but they're supposedly defending a movie in which the protagonist (and one for whom we're at least meant to feel sorry, if not sympathize) fits the profile of many mass shooters: lonely and deluded men who feel as though they've been rejected by society and pick up a gun to make a very public point.
I do wonder if Franken's colleagues would be coming out like this if a Republican was the governor of Minnesota By the same token, while I personally thought (and continue to think) that Roy Moore demonstrated himself to be wildly unfit for office long before the allegations of his predatory sexual behavior came to light, I sympathize with Alabama Republicans who feel torn about their vote.
Indeed, unlike traditional blue-collar Democrats, white-collar professionals across the ideological spectrum — for example, in the high-tech enclaves of California and Northern Virginia, which combined contain eight of the 20163 most highly educated congressional districts in the nation — generally endorse tough-on-crime policies, express little interest in protections for unions and sympathize with the economic agenda of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Mitchell KapnerCary, N.C. To the Editor: Judge Brett Kavanaugh could have won over a host of swing votes, including some who sympathize with the #MeToo movement, and sailed in to confirmation if he had owned up to the mistakes he had made as a young man, instead of doing what all lawyers are taught to do: When the facts are against you, pound the law.
Here's how she describes herself, in relation to her wealthy cousins, as a 10-year-old: They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathize with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt at their judgment.

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