An unsympathetic coach gave him a hard time throughout the entire ordeal and eventually Greene decided to give up the dream of becoming a footballer.
But the government's lacklustre response also epitomised its main failing: a detached and unsympathetic approach to Latvians' human and daily concerns.
Alas, the markets were unsympathetic: by early this week, Sony's shares had fallen by 6%.Sony's problems are most obvious in its core electronics business, which accounts for two-thirds of its revenues.
Small and medium-sized firms might also find credit tighter were their banks bought by unsympathetic foreigners.As long as Mr Fazio is in charge, Italy's big banks will stay in domestic hands.
An unsympathetic response could fuel street protests—hardly what Chinese leaders focused on their own political problems want to have to worry about.Threats to stability around China will be exacerbated by the rapidly growing use of online social-networking systems such as the hugely popular Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo.
Earlier this year, having been beaten and bullied into wedding a stranger, she took a stand.She fled her husband's home in Niger's southern province of Zinder no fewer than four times after the ceremony, only to be dragged back by unsympathetic parents.
The private sector goes in the bottom right (you put in relatively little and get out a lot); government goes in the top left: a lot of input and very little output.Mr Thiel, a prominent libertarian, may be unsympathetic to the public sector, but his chart is not a bad guide to the past 40 years or so.
But politicians are unsympathetic, since voters assume that the complainers are tax-dodging high-rollers rather than honest students or small-business owners.
Orphaned as a child, he is foisted upon an unsympathetic uncle and then sent to boarding school.
As a group, they find officials unsympathetic, or worse.
Legal attacks on Khaleda Zia, admittedly an unsympathetic figure, are in full flow: an anti-corruption body charged her on August 8th; the same day a court issued a warrant for her exiled elder son over bribe-taking; in June a younger son was sentenced, in absentia, to six years in another graft case; in November she was evicted from her home.
