Sentence examples for sympathetic explanation from inspiring English sources

A sympathetic explanation is that the governor practised a style of back-scratching politics which has fallen out of favour with voters only recently.

The writer gives a sympathetic explanation of Mr. Obama's comments and writes that Ms. Fowler had an agenda; Ms. Fowler said she had no agenda except to write it as she saw it.

The most sympathetic explanation for Napoleon's relentless aggression holds that he was responding to the irreducible antagonism of Britain: French power and glory were the only antidotes to John Bull's arrogance.

Take RBS, where the shareholders merrily voted to buy ABN AMRO the deal that sank the bank after the credit crunch had struck.The sympathetic explanation is that shareholders face a difficult job of holding banks to account.

One of Quinn's friends had a more sympathetic explanation.

But in the world after Sept. 11, our judgments about terrorism are less open to complex or sympathetic explanations.

Rachel listened quietly to my sympathetic explanations and, when I had finished, she replied, "Well, that's OK, but I still don't want my baby brother sleeping in my room".

Occasional sadness comes up (such as Charlie Brown's complaints that no one likes him, and Patty's un-sympathetic explanations of why this is so), but this is offset by a friendly drawing style, great jokes and a sense of childhood exuberance that makes the discouragements of life seem a worthy price to pay.

The magistrate on duty recognized me and was sympathetic to my explanation of how we were treated.

And via Mark Thoma, the very cautious Dave Altig looks at recent studies and concludes that we've been pretty sympathetic to structural explanations for the slow pace of the recovery.

Americans tend to be sympathetic to economic explanations for a lack of physical activity (say, people can't afford gym memberships or don't have the time to exercise because of their busy work schedule).