You don't sound very sympathetic.

Public opinion will not be sympathetic to fiscal discipline or neoliberal orthodoxy.

Don't just think, Well, I'm compassionate, or I'm not compassionate, and sort of think you're stuck there.

This was no easy task, but the hard work, perseverance and conviction of the countries of the region have brought us to the end of a process that some viewed with sympathy and others with incredulity.

Prince Alexander had conservative leanings, and at first opposed Stambolov's policies, but by 1885 he had become sufficiently sympathetic to his new country to change his mind, and supported the Liberals.

Luckily, they say I still am not sure but luckily, they say that when you reach that point because some people have said in the Buddhist literature, they say, Oh who would really want to be compassionate?

He believed that it was the moral, political and legal responsibility of all United Nations Member States to cooperate to ensure that the difficulties of States adversely affected by the application of trade and economic sanctions met with a sympathetic hearing and that concrete assistance was extended to them.