But each is doing the mom thing — big time — tapping a vein of sentiment and belief, practicing a special form of political sympathetic magic, hoping clearly that by invoking the image, inveighing the glorious beloved power of all that's maternal, they will warm and rally the hearts of voters enough to get them to the polls and determine the outcome of the midterm elections.
The dwindling band of bosses still sympathetic to Labour hope that Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, and Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, will temper Mr Miliband's instincts if he becomes prime minister.But then there is Europe.
In terms of their take on the Palestinian issue and whether they are going to be sympathetic, you always hope that this is going to be a consequence meeting people or them reading your book, but you can never know what other influences they are exposed to and where they ideas come from.
Conservative radio host Dana Loesch tried to put Mr Bundy's statements in a more sympathetic light: I hope no one is surprised that an old man rancher isn't media trained to express himself perfectly.
"By tying the merger to a timely issue, one that the public is very sympathetic to, Conoco hopes to get the merger through the regulatory process with a minimum of pain," said Lawrence J. Goldstein, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation.
"I'm absolutely sure my own experiences of depression and recovery made me go on to be a much more sympathetic doctor and, I hope, a more sympathetic and understanding MP".
I designed a set of shamanic robes embroidered with pots and maps of the Met in the hope that sympathetic magic would influence the high priests of culture into giving me an opportunity.
That Bigger should have the book's last word and that what he has to say should terrify, and apparently baffle, Max has seemed to some critics to be Wright's way of saying that not even the most sympathetic white person can hope to have a true understanding of a black person's experience — that the articulation of black experience requires a black voice.
When she realises the reason behind the protest, Zena is less sympathetic: "What do they hope to achieve? "Competition is healthy.
She had a breakdown during her first-year exams, but the university was less sympathetic than she'd hoped.
