"promotes sympathy" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, but it is most commonly used to describe actions or behaviors that encourage or elicit feelings of compassion or understanding for another person's situation. Example: The charity organization's campaign effectively promotes sympathy for the plight of homeless families by sharing their personal stories and struggles.
The Arab commentariat, much of which had promoted sympathy with the Iraqi insurgency, and focused on perceived western hostility to Islam as the cause of global jihadism, has grown vocal in condemning violence.
Isn't it further possible that, aside from the damage to what we consider our values as a free, democratic society, the disclosure of some of our actual practices (Guantánamo, waterboarding and so on) has done more to promote sympathy for anti-American terrorism than whatever the net gain, if any, has been in valuable intelligence information?
The role of Paris-based Wallachian émigrés in promoting sympathy for common Romanian goals was decisive.
An actual attack would likely consolidate domestic support for the regime and promote international sympathy for it, particularly throughout the Muslim world.
Other scholars have identified the text's tone as satirical and mildly obscene, locating it among a movement of pamphlets influenced by a counter-trend promoting greater sympathy for prostitution.
Backed by some of the most influential members of the Jewish community - as is its Tory twin, the CFI - the group works to promote a broad sympathy for Israel in the Middle East.
In 194O, Joseph Kennedy, the isolationist American ambassador to Britain, father of JFK, had advised the Hollywood moguls to "get those Jewish names off the screen" and to "stop making anti-Nazi pictures or using the film medium to promote or show sympathy to the cause of 'democracies' versus 'the dictators'".
Using polls, focus groups and advertising, the coalition has selected and promoted causes that might arouse sympathy among Americans.
Still, I have decided that part of my role in this untraditional arrangement is to promote greater awareness of — and sympathy toward — breadwinner wives and stay-at-home husbands.
Using polls, focus groups and advertising, the coalition has selected and promoted causes that might arouse sympathy among Americans, like giving clean syringes to heroin users to prevent the spread of AIDS, or softening tough penalties for drug use.
