"lead to sympathy" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means that something causes or brings about feelings of pity or compassion. Example: The politician's emotional speech about the struggles of the working class led to sympathy and support from the audience.
And understanding often leads to sympathy.
It is always the repression of terrorists that leads to sympathy and support for them.
There's this funny thing where the technical stuff (trying to make the voice convincing and compelling; operating at a sufficient level of detail; trying to keep the reader emotionally with the narrator) will dovetail with the moral valence of the piece that is, technique leads to sympathy, or maybe, the appearance of sympathy.
But this realization did not lead to any particular sympathy or concern for the enslaved men and women that were its victims.
But prevailing narratives that these missing children are just runaways leads to less sympathy and media coverage for them when they are reported as missing.
Instead, say we, forget history, and buy Jonathan Alter's book! Parker says that Obama's popularity has not proven to be beneficial for some Democratic candidates, but suggests that things like Rand Paul craziness may lead to a swing in sympathy.
Frequent exposure to a vulnerable group of patients in severe distress may lead to stronger feelings of sympathy; nevertheless, it may also spark negative feelings in health professionals if they feel there is an imbalance in the way the individual or institutional resources are spent.
The experience of sympathy can lead to the development of empathy.
Sharing the patient's emotions (sympathy) can lead to empathic overarousal or personal distress (an aversive self-focused emotional reaction to the apprehension of another person's emotional state) [ 22].
Social stigma and the lack of sympathy and understanding may lead to anxiety and depression in caregivers as well as sufferers.
