How To Use Sympathetic In A Sentence

Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
A stimulant action on the parasympathetic portion of the oculomotor nucleus (third cranial nerve) is responsible for pupillary miosis.
It would also release more time for doctors, who would no longer need to cope with people presenting illness as a cover for their real aim - the chance to talk to a sympathetic person about their personal problems.
The reason economists are sympathetic to signalling is that they are very smart (yes, really) and are among the people who probably don't benefit greatly from college, they learned how to think at high school and are mostly self-educated anyway. Free Education Valued at Cost, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I knew Anikei was more sympathetic toward Pavel than anybody else was.

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Beneath that aloof exterior, Gayle is a warm, sympathetic person.
Claire's always one to lend a sympathetic ear if you have problems.
Long sympathetic neurons and sensory neurons, with particular reference to those of the dorsomedial quadrant of spinal ganglia in chick embryo [12], provided a most valuable system for demonstrating the three main activities of NGF, i.e., 1) its vital trophic role during the early developmental stages, 2) its property of enhancing differentiative processes such as neurite outgrowth, and 3) of guiding the growing or regenerating neurites along its own concentration gradient. [ Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
In most cases trained officers give sympathetic, effective and admirable support. Times, Sunday Times
Here he sounds like the cautious elder, advising a sympathetic intellectualism that would open people to self-understanding.
I smiled sympathetically, but was more worried about who I was going to be stuck with.
His lifestyle was too threatening, his irresponsibility too damning to make him sympathetic.
The award recognized the challenges involved in the building project and its sympathetic approach to the hermitage, which provides a place for the hermit monks, both male and female to live a life of solitude.
_merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
I find myself so sympathetic to the arguments of this book, and particularly its central thesis, that I find it difficult to offer any critical comments other than: bravo!
Three main types of lumbar sympathetic nerve blockades for pain include the paravertebral approach and spinal and epidural injections of local anesthetics.
The homes will also be sympathetic to existing designs in Broome Manor Lane in that they will be two storey.
I mean, I’m sympathetic, but petulance is not an excuse here. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder
(It was formerly called the sympathetic nervous system, but this term is now limited to one part of this system, and the term autonomic to another part, although some writers still use the term sympathetic for the whole, and others [the English] the term autonomic for the whole.) The Foundations of Personality
Without glossing over the more reprehensible elements in Sade's temperament, Rush succeeds in making him into a sympathetic character.
It worries them that many vintage structures, both vernacular and colonial, are being changed unsympathetically, resulting in eyesores, even on King Street.
Here, the character Ms. Kudrow plays is far from sympathetic—she's psychotherapist Fiona Wallice, a charlatan, and a remorseless, self-obsessed one, busy peddling what she's fond of describing as her new "treatment modality. Therapy as Shock Treatment
I'm sure the writers will protest that discussing issues like this, using sympathetic characters, helps educate others in similar situations.
The Labour party are supposed to be sympathetic to/towards the unions.
I told him about the problem but he was totally unsympathetic.
He is a listener rather than a talker, and sympathetic in an amused, ironic way.
In her second act postprison, Martha Stewart is likely to return a more sympathetic character. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2005
It adds: ‘The proposals have been well designed and are considered to be sympathetic to the Grade II almshouse on the site.’
They were interested, sympathetic, but certainly not shocked or horrified. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
Hereafter, then, we shall continue to use the term consciousness as descriptive of that part of our mentality which constitutes what is commonly known as the "mind"; while that mental force, which, so far as our animal life is concerned, operates through the sympathetic nerve system, we shall hereafter describe as "_sub_conscious. Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency
I understand their haste but future generations may not be as sympathetic to our cowardice and laziness. Times, Sunday Times
You have succeeded in dividing the readership, you have brought in sympathetic readership from another blog, as was your intention, to support your position, and start your verbal donnybrook." and Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A.
He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
Opinion at the grassroots level is sympathetic to the strikers.
For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.
No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
Then he watches, trying not to be sympathetic, as Rebecca steadies herself again. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.
Save your breath! Don't even mention your illness to your unsympathetic boss.
Cortez's case struck a responsive and sympathetic chord in the hearts of his compatriots.
Todd Thomas faulted the press for what he described as a sympathetic portrayal of Becker. The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines
Of innumerable biographies of Luther the best from sympathetic Protestant pens are: Julius Köstlin, _Life of Luther, _ trans. and abridged from the German (1900); T.M. Lindsay, _Luther and the German Reformation_ (1900); A.C. M.Giffert, _M.rtin Luther, the A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
We have our sympathetic characters doing unsympathetic things and vice versa. Times, Sunday Times
A broadcaster of gentlemanly calm and courtesy, he was unsympathetic to the more confrontational style which increasingly became the norm. Times, Sunday Times
The constrictor muscle is supplied by the parasympathetic nervous system, and the dilator by the sympathetic nervous system.
A Jetstar hostie gives me two Panadol and a sympathetic smile.
I am sympathetic to arguments that Kyoto, as implemented, is not the most effective means to accomplish its stated aims. Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
She receives wonderfully sympathetic support from a tight-knit cast of sidemen, and adds her own fiddle, organ and calabash textures. Times, Sunday Times
This has happened at other stores and usually the most sympathetic person is the sales clerk, who feels guilty that I can't try on the clothes.
Many of the plaintiffs in Ricci have very sympathetic stories to tell, but Judge Sotomayor did not let this fact influence her duty as a judge. Wonk Room
The autonomic nervous system is divided into interacting and balancing systems, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and the visceral afferent system. SO STRESSED
I'm sympathetic with the president's desire to let people have ownership.
He's unsympathetic, but charismatic and complex.
A slowly developing narrowing of the palpebral fissure accompanies these events, which reflect a decrease in the sympathetic innervation, which - particularly in the pupil - occurs with an increase in parasympathetic influence. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
A generally unsympathetic Supreme Court will again take up the issue - in the context of federal contracting programs - next term.
Many sufferers have found their doctors unhelpful and unsympathetic when they first sought help. Repetitive Strain Injury
There will be no one who is able to respond sympathetically to his innermost fears and apprehensions.
In the twentieth century, most of those sympathetic to utilitarianism replaced hedonism with the desire-fulfilment theory.
He never deviated from the radical right's agenda, but he gave it a warm, sympathetic face.
Her husband was unsympathetic and she felt she had no one to turn to.
In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
This is an immensely sympathetic and satisfying read. Times, Sunday Times
As I pointed out in an earlier post, after journalist Jill Carroll was released late last week Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz wrongheadedly questioned her first interview, which was taped by Iraqis before she was handed over to U.S. forces, and lent credence to the idea that she was too sympathetic to Arab causes, thereby making her somehow anti-American. Eric J. Weiner: Someone Send Howard Kurtz to a War Zone Immediately
The latter strikes me as more fruitful given the proportion of the population that has passed through said institutions over the past forty years and have noted the reality that dicentra highlights, though many were more sympathetic to it at the time than dicentra. The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism
They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
As someone who's worked in freelance journalism, I'm actually quite sympathetic to Downie's concerns. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Parasites, Politics, and the Press: Social Security Attackers' Covert Ops
The publication has only 163 pages, but it is full of the joy found in people when one sympathetically understands the oddness of age and mental infirmity.
I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man who, in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
And sometimes you would get what they call a sympathetic detonation. CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005
She starts off, by design, as an unsympathetic character (hence the titled comeuppance), who, like any newcomer in a Hollywood flick, not only learns to cope well enough (despite the natives) to stay in Japan and grow, but also to recommend to everyone (in a self-important interview in the back of the book) to try living overseas (I agree, of course, but one year abroad hardly makes one an authority on world travel). Debito.org
These effects are produced by fibres projecting from the hypothalamus to parasympathetic nuclei in the brain stem, and to sympathetic centres in the spinal cord.
Though Stark is sympathetic to these voices, her ire is raised by the question of private practice.
At least the company's worsening outlook should encourage a sympathetic hearing from the regulator. Times, Sunday Times
And to compound the problem, the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding.
After the second one — a 2-foot tap-in — rolled out, one fan yelled sympathetically, "Aw, John! Daly withdraws from PGA Championship after a 78
Despite a predictable script, Jugnot is still able to play an immensely sympathetic character without being cloying.
If there was a problem with a hypersympathetic nervous system, Western herbalists have tended use sedatives, nervines and perhaps anti-inflammatories.
The outer layer of blood vessels contains nerves of the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system, the activity of which is controlled by the brain.
I don't think she's an entirely unsympathetic character. The Sun
Over the past five years the two princes have been portrayed as sympathetic people with similar interests to the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
On the basis of the experiences in engineering, the theory can not fully reflect the inherent law of blasting sympathetic vibration if we only take into account the peak velocity.
Interested and sympathetic - to the police, I mean - without being uncritically fulsome, in that way Tory politicians have. POLITICAL SUICIDE
The planning officer's report to the district council says the development is considered to be sympathetic to the surroundings and would be allowed under the Draft District Plan.
And now units of this vagrom and unstable street throng, which was forever shifting and changing about them, seemed to sense the psychologic error of all this in so far as these children were concerned, for they would nudge one another, the more sophisticated and indifferent lifting an eyebrow and smiling contemptuously, the more sympathetic or experienced commenting on the useless presence of these children. An American Tragedy
General anesthesia causes peripheral vessels to dilate by depressing the sympathetic nervous system.
Ask around friends and family to find a sympathetic dentist near you, then take a deep breath and book that first appointment. The Sun
They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.
He was very sympathetic to me when I was ill.
The Panel is not sympathetic to delay in making an announcement occasioned by an unsuccessful application for suspension.
Some of the make-up artists gave me sympathetic looks but continued to apply black eye liner and mascara.
Kenneth nodded sympathetically, and through the trees the track announcer mutedly called for the start of another race. Wake Up, Sir!
Even the author's most sympathetic reviewers have expressed the opinion that this sexual encounter from beyond the grave is an unsuccessful instance of overreaching.
The reflexes are mediated by the sympathetic or parasympathetic nerves of the autonomic nervous system, in response to information reaching the central nervous system from a variety of receptors in the organs and tissues.
In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
Opinion at the grassroots level is sympathetic to the strikers.
And, indeed, I would agree with that ranking, but the only reason we want a sphere of autonomy is because we happen to be sympathetic to ranking freedoms according to their radius from the center of the sphere of autonomy. The Nanny Two-Step
The greater and lesser splanchnic nerves (preganglionic sympathetic) are found.
This time he's playing a much more sympathetic character, but he's still a cold fish.
She assigned the story, she said last week, as an example of ‘an unsympathetic narrator, a guy who is sadistic and sexist.’
At the same time, a canopy of strings induce sympathetic vibrations in resonant aluminum panels suspended between the monitors.
The characters could easily remain unfeeling mouthpieces spouting ideological positions, but Dobbin brings out the humanity of each one, making all of them in some way sympathetic.
When I just go ahead and speak my mind, inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive, unsympathetic rationalist.
The last thing I'd ever do is sermonize that "you should have gone home first," which is why this story makes me furious as well as intensely sympathetic. Bad news from the Crüxshadows
The Times understands that both are loath to lose their man, yet are sympathetic to his situation. Times, Sunday Times
Vietnam vets, once culturally ostracized, had become deservedly more sympathetic in the eyes of the media, and everything countercultural was now unhip - or worse.
Pure speculation admittedly, but I would think that Stevens would want to go out with a ‘bang’ for his retirement, and that the other Justices who agree with him on the decision would be sympathetic in allowing him to do so. The Volokh Conspiracy » Reading The Tea Leaves for the Supreme Court’s November and December 2009 Sittings
Jerry whacked at the old soldier's head with a sympathetic slapstick.
However, his music failed to evolve stylistically after the early 1830s and he was often charged with mannerism by less sympathetic critics.
There are no really weak links and 'Sonnie's Edge', 'Deathday' and 'Escape Route' are all superb, whilst the title novella is nothing short of classic, showing the birth of a new human culture which is beyond normal human experience but in a manner that is convincing and even attractive: a sympathetic Singularity. Archive 2009-08-01
What I got instead was a gut-wrenchingly awful representation of my community, peopled with unlikeable and unsympathetic characters.
Over a period of time this frustration can wear down the carers' understanding to the point where they seem to become unsympathetic. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
Jewett said he was sympathetic, but that the boy had a constitutional right to be present in the courtroom.
The dogs were sympathetic to this proposal, so the wolves, making their way inside the sheepfold, tore the dogs to pieces.
Nellie joined him in a gleesome dance of triumph round the blushing, new-fledged Dick, and Rover gambolled behind the pair, barking loudly, in sympathetic accord. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
However in sympathetic assistance the charge is often reduced to manslaughter with diminished responsibilities, which ultimately carries a lighter sentence.
To begin with, prisoners are among the least lucrative of clients, and certainly the least sympathetic to juries, so that few lawyers are willing to litigate on their behalf.
Salt sensitivity in obese individuals may be a consequence of increased sympathetic activity, decreased responsiveness to atrial natriuretic peptide, activation of the renin-angiotensin system or mechanical pressure on the kidneys that increases sodium reabsorption. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » And the 2009 “Salt Lick” Award goes to Pizza!
Senator Capp is very sympathetic to environmental issues.
Sympathetically and lovingly restored by the Lorimer family around 1878, it has magnificent plaster ceilings, painted panelling and furniture designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.
Let's hope that Bradford MP Gerry Sutcliffe, whose ministerial responsibilities now include fireworks, is sympathetic to that view.
It has characters that are compelling, sympathetic and which develop over the course of the plot.
Finding no solace at home, he is taunted, bullied and beaten by a pugilistic stepfather and eventually sent by his sympathetic, but passive, mother to a private boarding school to study his sixth form.
This includes those of the parasympathetic nervous system in the heart, glandular tissue, and smooth muscle.
This diurnal variation in melatonin synthesis is brought about by norepinephrine secreted by the postganglionic sympathetic nerves that innervate the pineal gland.
Over a period of years a sympathetic observer notices marked changes, although such personal reflections are notoriously subjective.
I've written another cruel and unsympathetic character.
The music in its patience and sense of perseverance imparts a sense of sympathetic healing.
Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land.
The parasympathetic nervous system is excitatory and results in the contraction of smooth muscle, whereas the sympathetic system inhibits smooth muscle in the digestive system.
You know him as a person and he's very sympathetic. Times, Sunday Times
Patrick is the most tender-hearted, sympathetic, devoted person I know.
With its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, this collection demonstrates that [Adichie] is keeping faith with her talent and with her country. The Thing Around Your Neck: Summary and book reviews of The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The cause of gastralgia is a local or sympathetic irritation of the nerves distributed to the stomach. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
(I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding – ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.) Great Expectations
One intention of the season, in the words of the powers that be, was to "emancipate" John from his mother, but his stroppy teenager act whenever the subject of Riley came up made him less, not more sympathetic. DVD Times
If the sympathetic nervous system is damaged, however, the blood vessels do not constrict and blood pressure progressively decreases.
Sometimes, when you do render safe procedure like this and use a disruptor, sometimes there will be what they call a sympathetic detonation, where if it was a real bomb, sometimes it will go ahead and, you know, set that off. CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005
The gruffness took on a softer tone, sounding almost sympathetic.
He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.
Milarsky again conducted, with another excellent soloist: soprano Jo Ellen Miller, her bright, golden voice flexible to Carter's demands and colorfully sympathetic to Bishop's moods. Archive 2008-07-01
The passengers were sympathetic with one another, notwithstanding their recent factiousness, and were especially kind to a poor little brown baby, which they handed round and nursed by turns, but the heat, the filth, and the stench of the ship defied description. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
I am fully sympathetic with their plight and the difficult conditions under which they often have to survive.
The managers did not expect a sympathetic reception from the striking workers.
He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
Rine decided these were not the friendly, sympathetic guards she and the duke had encountered earlier.
The main character, semi-retired Physicist Henry Erdmann, is the most sympathetic of the group, and the most level-headed about the strange goings-on. REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees
Do you want me to come and look at your mum's ankle and tut sympathetically? FALLEN WOMEN
I'm less sympathetic toward Hollywood stars, mostly blank-eyed cyphers with nothing to say and an artless way of expressing it.
For people with mental health problems, a sympathetic ear and understanding is an essential part of their rehabilitation.
Bringing the composer's tartly individual music to life (a bit like unsweetened lemon juice), they prove, too, an indispensable supplement to this sympathetic and thorough composer portrait.
The day milk bottles and the neighborhood milkmen were replaced by milk cartons from the grocery store was a jolting one for this young child, as well as for his sympathetic and caring mother. The Sacred Promise
It is what I call selfishness, and selfishness is a most detestable thing, especially to any one of my temperament, for I am well known for my sympathetic nature. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
He made a noise which, had he been female, would have been instantly recognized as a sympathetic cluck.
If you do not feel the same way, a white, yellow or stripped carnation is a sympathetic way to refuse. Goddard Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Teenagers caught up in the turmoil of their parents' messy divorce are being offered a sympathetic ear by a new service in Winchester.
a sympathetic observer
He's always prepared to lend a sympathetic ear .
A number of the big breweries have recently made encouraging moves towards a more sympathetic attitude to their historic pubs.
He had a bluff and ebullient, although sympathetic manner, and was hospitable, always the life and soul of the party frequently one he had given himself.
This was to have an impact on his political strategy: though sympathetic to some of the aims of both the French Revolution and the United Irishmen, he retained a strong aversion to political violence.
He's always prepared to lend a sympathetic ear .
The brilliant camera work sympathetically follows him from street corners where he shares a dazed smoke with a couple of wrinkled vagrants to a silent pond where his exhausted mind conjures up startling hallucinations.
He has a job at a lumberyard, a sympathetic boss, and a well-intentioned brother-in-law.
So it was reassuring when she clucked sympathetically at the bone-weariness I described, and suggested that I take a nap before the boys got back. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
They also subdue signals from the sympathetic nervous system and inhibit deleterious overgrowth of damaged heart muscle.
Distributors and studios are fairly unsympathetic entities, so it's hard to get average people to care about them.
Through what I termed its "muscarine" action, it reproduced at the periphery all the effects of parasympathetic nerves, with a fidelity which, as I indicated, was comparable to that with which adrenaline had been shown, some ten years earlier, to reproduce those of true sympathetic nerves. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
His own gaze, generally unsympathetic and indifferent to the Other as such, evokes little sympathy.
The museum does depict Stalin unsympathetically.
She manages to combine a sharp mind/intellect with a sympathetic manner.
Those changes include a new door to the wine bar and roof lights sympathetic to the building's design.
[62-64] A particularly impressive evidence of the capacity of NGF to modulate phenotypic expression is the case of SIF cells which have been hypothesized as immediate precursors of both sympathetic and chromaffin cells. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
The agent behind the desk was very understanding and sympathetic.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerate of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of this.
The St. Judith girl's eyes widened and she gave him a sympathetic look.
If the sympathetic nervous system is damaged, however, the blood vessels do not constrict and blood pressure progressively decreases.
He shoots sympathetically, an arresting contrast with the extreme situations pictured.
Dr. Madden left her, telling her that she was not pregnant, and when she reappeared at his office in a few days, he reassured her of the nonexistence of pregnancy; she became very indignant, triumphantly squeezed lactescent fluid from her breasts, and, insisting that she could feel fetal movements, left to seek a more sympathetic accoucheur. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The Scottish Executive's slowness to bring in new rights led to accusations that ministers have been ‘got at’ by civil servants unsympathetic to the language.
The comrades were too sympathetic or polite to express alarm that he's only just realised.
The personal, intersocial, sympathetic, moral, and religious relations and obligations, would have to be summarily set aside for future revision, if not for sweeping rejection. Life: Its True Genesis
He was always there with a sympathetic ear .
The government has moved to crack down on independent-minded judges, human rights groups and the media and has been accused of packing the courts with sympathetic judges.
Chromaphil or chromaffin cells, so-called because they stain yellow or brownish with chromium salts, are associated with the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems
The example of restraint which would have resulted from the sparing of the dictator's life, and possibly encouraged similar expressions from opposition forces sympathetic to Saddam, has been tossed aside in Bush and Maliki's pyretic rush forward to some imagined crushing victory that they would gamble even more of our soldiers 'lives to achieve. Three Thousand Wake-Up Calls In Iraq
There are valid arguments in favor of keeping an estate tax, and I'm not unsympathetic to all of them.
When publicans turned up to air their grievances before a committee in Leinster House on April 26, they could hardly have wished for a more sympathetic audience.
This 10-second delay is more in keeping with the behavior of the sympathetic than the parasympathetic nervous system.
Before you started your research, had you been sympathetic toward the idea of antidepressants?
A stimulant action on the parasympathetic portion of the oculomotor nucleus (third cranial nerve) is responsible for pupillary miosis.
He added: ‘The sign looks a discordant and random afterthought which is entirely unsympathetic to the architectural integrity of this attractive building.’
Women often feel men are too direct and not sympathetic enough.
But the narrator is so unsympathetic, so blank and fleshless, that it's hard to feel engaged by her story, unless by the freak-show details.
Rockwell reports a case of unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought due to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Still more curious was the form of viol known as the barytone, which, in addition to an outfit of six catgut strings upon the finger board, was furnished with twenty-four wire strings, stretched close under the sounding board, where they sounded by sympathetic vibration. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
The film doesn't gloss over the violent nature of the drugs industry, but its sympathetic portrait of the mules is quietly provocative.
There may be a few on the bar ethics committee, at least, who are sympathetic to the ‘civil disobedience’ argument.
Readers looking for sweet, sympathetic heroines would be best advised to look elsewhere.

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