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They will consider both easing repression, in order to gain sympathy, and tightening it, in order to prevent uncontrollable protests.
One component is the jihadists, some of them foreign and some local, with direct ties to al Qaeda or, at least,
sympathy
with its worldview.
For a majority of Europeans, though they have absolutely no
sympathy
for radical Muslims, be they Sunni or Shia, Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah and its result, the destruction of Lebanon, are seen as self-defeating for Israel and as potentially detonating a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.
With the passing of time and the transformation of Israel from a small pioneer state to a regional superpower, Israel’s image became blurred and progressively negative, while
sympathy
for the Palestinian cause spread, despite Palestinian terrorism.
In a recorded conversation with a Metropolitan police commander, Lucy D’Orsi, the queen called Chinese officials “very rude,” and expressed
sympathy
for D’Orsi’s “bad luck” in having to deal with them.
I knew this would provoke the
sympathy
of her relatives, and they would scrape together their meager resources to ensure a proper funeral.
The transatlantic alliance will be no less necessary than it was before, nor will European citizens regard their American counterparts with any less
sympathy
and fellow feeling.
He exposed details of behind-the-scenes politics and called for a public boycott of the newspaper, evoking strong public
sympathy
for the journalists, expressed online in chatrooms and blogs.
In the aftermath of 9/11, there was a good deal of
sympathy
and understanding around the world for America’s military response against the Taliban.
This classic “us versus them” dichotomy leads to
sympathy
for one’s in-group and implacable conflict with out-groups – a bottomless source of conflict throughout history.
Measures to compensate the poorest met with considerable
sympathy
in EU capitals, and favorable sentiment would have strengthened had Greece started to cut its bloated defense budget (as a leftist government might have been expected to do).
Along with Iran, Russia, which seeks to undermine American and British influence in the Middle East, supports the Shia awakening, whereas Sunni-dominated Turkey, the region’s strongest military power and a NATO member, has done little to hide its
sympathy
for the Islamic State.
On occasion, Trump has expressed
sympathy
for the Dreamers.
Coming from a president who won global
sympathy
– and a Nobel Peace Prize – for his moral stance, the claim that the NSA’s activities are justified because “that’s how intelligence services operate” is particularly disappointing.
Their diplomatic values, after all, were shaped by an official emphasis on
sympathy
for the weak in any struggle against the strong, and by comradely reminiscences about the North – far and away the weakest of the participants in the six-party negotiations over the North nuclear armaments with the US, South Korea, China, Russia, and Japan.
But no regime has ever used its citizens so deliberately as tools to arouse world sympathy, as hostages to modern sensitivities.
Benazir Bhutto’s GambleAs the initial shock of the terrorist attacks against Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto fade, it is becoming clear that they were a political boon for her, triggering a wave of public
sympathy
that extends well beyond her local Sindh stronghold.
Her recent statement that she feels no
sympathy
for the suffering Greeks, because they should have paid their taxes, has been widely criticized for being not just unfeeling, but hypocritical (as a diplomat she pays no taxes herself).
But neither those concerns nor Chinese retaliation will win the US any sympathy, because the administration’s latest action comes on the heels of bogus US steel and aluminum tariffs, trumped up, as it were, on national security grounds.
Indeed, the global movement to fight discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS - which first surfaced as a "gay disease" in the United States - has elicited little
sympathy
for homosexuals in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yet among liberal democrats, there was actually more
sympathy
for the Palestinians, with 68% saying that they sympathized more with the Palestinians, compared with 44% of moderate Democrats and just 33% of Republicans.
The invasion, the absence of any weapons of mass destruction or any link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, the pictures of Iraqi civilian casualties, and the subsequent scenes of humiliating mistreatment or torture of Iraqi prisoners and detainees have all contributed to a wide, deep, and probably lasting collapse of
sympathy
for the US in the region.
At the end of an eventful week, he set off a new firestorm, by speaking of his
sympathy
for Porter, and suggesting that women who make such complaints aren’t necessarily to be believed.
For example, there was little
sympathy
for North Korea when Obama imposed sanctions against it last year in response to cyber attacks against Sony Pictures.
Gandhi believed in “weaning an opponent from error by patience, sympathy, and self-suffering.”
They listen with sympathy, and sometimes even emotion, to the testimonies of the generation for whom Europe was synonymous with the ideal of reconciliation and reconstruction.
Referendum Farce in BurmaPRAGUE – The enormous suffering of the Burmese people caused by the recent cyclone, which has caused tens of thousands of deaths, deserves the
sympathy
of the entire world.
But more than
sympathy
is needed, because the Burmese military junta’s incompetence and brutal oppression are further aggravating the tragic consequences of this natural disaster.
But official bravura has little
sympathy
beyond this narrow circle.
Similarly, ASEAN’s response to North Korea’s provocations – such as ongoing nuclear tests and the 2010 attack that sunk the South Korean corvette Cheonan, killing 46 seamen – has been muted, owing to some ASEAN member states’
sympathy
for the North Korean regime.
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