Sentence examples for sympathetic reason from inspiring English sources

The phrase "sympathetic reason" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could be used in contexts discussing motivations or justifications that are emotionally driven or compassionate in nature. Example: "Her decision to help the community was based on sympathetic reasons, as she had experienced similar struggles in her past."

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Baxter refuses to explain why she committed the crime which, this being "Downton Abbey," can only mean she had a perfectly reasonable and sympathetic reason for doing it, one that will be disclosed only after at least another season and approximately three dozen identical conversations with Cora.

"If the facts of the case suggested to the judge that there was some sympathetic reason why the defendant should not face time in jail, they could sentence them to anything they wanted, including just probation".

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"But we are sympathetic to the reason people put them up.

In Copenhagen, however, volunteers are more sympathetic to the reasons for Sweden's U-turn on refugees.

They had to be taught the club rules; till they learnt them, they were liable to behave awkwardly.Mr Schröder, though almost as preoccupied with the EU budget as Margaret Thatcher once was, can count on a much more sympathetic reception for several reasons.

Understand that the members in your band may not be sympathetic to your reasons for happiness - despair does that.

If the red shirts win the election, they reason, a sympathetic government will influence the courts to rule in favor of their clients.

There was a considerable public backlash to the way in which some of the provisions of the War Precautions Act were applied, particularly in relation to certain sections of the community such as trade unions and other sections of the community that were for various reasons not as sympathetic to the British cause as the wider community.

Williams himself thinks that this is, in general, a much better way to ground moral demands than the appeal to reasons ("Having sympathetic concern for others is a necessary condition of being in the world of morality", 1972: 26; cp. 1981: 122, 1985 Ch.2).

Terry Lempriere, Warrington The most informative and satisfying read of the year for me was Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead (Chatto & Windus), a reasoned and sympathetic account of events in the French Massif Central region between 1940 and 1944.

It's even harder to shut off water when your customers don't pay, even though access is often a matter of life or death (but some cities like nearby Detroit go ahead and do it anyway, for a variety of reasons, some sympathetic and others despicable).

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