Sentence examples for sympathetic and supportive from inspiring English sources

They called on the government to develop a "more sympathetic and supportive system".

The comments on the letter ranged from sympathetic and supportive to disbelieving and disparaging.

Trying to distinguish between "sympathetic" and "supportive" to describe Hunt's approach will not really wash.

Their frustration drove the quiet revolution we have pioneered: treating people with dignity and respect, rewarding responsible behaviour, while being sympathetic and supportive in times of trouble.

Smith, who says palace staff were sympathetic and supportive when he had a breakdown, was eventially given a £38,000 severance package.

Referring to the industry's effort to persuade the federal government to take responsibility for high levels of losses from any future terrorist attacks, Mr. Greenberg said: "The administration is sympathetic and supportive".

But his Third Symphony was composed and premiered at a time when Lutosławski's involvement in Polish public life had been suspended, when he was growing more sympathetic to and supportive of the Solidarity movement.

"You need to find a contractor who's sympathetic and really supportive," she said, "because they're basically sculpting the landscape with a bulldozer".

She said many people, including her fellow overseers, were "deeply sympathetic and very supportive," but that she hit a wall with university officials, whose response she characterized as: We don't politicize the endowment, we pursue engagement versus divestment, and we respectfully agree to disagree.

Beulah is always there — supportive, sympathetic — and yet she has no face, no body: she is a feeling, not a person.

Did you regret the press conference you gave as UN High Commissioner that year, when you condemned the actions of the Rwandan government?I sounded at the press conference like a Western person who was giving out to Rwanda, not like somebody who had been deeply supportive, sympathetic and engaged.