Sentence examples for a sympathetic draw from inspiring English sources

Beforehand, as fans repeatedly reloaded online draw simulators, there certainly seemed to be very few paths towards a sympathetic draw such as the England, Slovenia, Algeria draw the USA landed in 2010.

The immediate priority for Hodgson and the Football Association will be preparations for England's Euro 2016 campaign, with a sympathetic group draw likely to allow them a relatively straightforward passage to France in two years.

A sympathetic nurse drew "The Man" on my splinted, freshly broken foot, which was elevated, MacGyver style, on stacks of diapers, while my doctor gave me tough love, calling me a "closed-minded, stubborn fucking bitch," and correctly predicting a high presence of Taurus, Sagittarius, and Capricorn in my chart.

Annabel Pitcher is a YA novelist whose voice is irresistibly warm and sympathetic, drawing the reader effortlessly into her characters' inner worlds.

Mr. Weiner held his first campaign event at a subway stop in Harlem, and he has spent many Sundays since visiting black churches, where his remarks about the behavior that led to his resignation — sending sexually explicit messages and images to women over the Internet — often draw a sympathetic response.

He drew a sympathetic laugh from the crowd, adding, "You know, working stuff through Congress is more than a notion".

Travelling to China in 1955, Simone de Beauvoir drew a sympathetic picture of a new nation overcoming the aftereffects of foreign invasions, internecine warfare, natural disasters, and economic collapse.

The case drew a sympathetic judge, whose first words to Mr. Sealey were, "Why aren't you in class right now?" The lawyer representing the immigration service did not contest the documentation.

But efforts to provide a more nuanced look already exist: most notably "Hostage to Fortune," a collection of his letters edited by his granddaughter Amanda Smith, and Doris Kearns Goodwin's engaging 1987 book "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys," which also relied upon family cooperation for access and drew a sympathetic but tough-minded picture of the Kennedys.

Morever, it now seems certain that Pushkin's sister-in-law, Ekaterina, was already pregnant by d'Anthès before they married.But long before Ms Feinstein considers Pushkin's downfall amid the hostile, treacherous and sexually licentious members of Nicholas I's court, she draws a sympathetic, if not always approving, portrait of Pushkin's contradictory and flawed genius.

Although she can be unforgivingly funny about the loose morals and smug attitudes of academe, Law draws a sympathetic, even tender study of a self-centered but essentially decent soul in the kind of torment that isn't the least poetic.