98% say they're sympathetic to requests from their direct reports for a better work/life balance.
Mr. Garforth said the planning authority in his area generally was sympathetic to requests, delighted that such a significant property was being restored.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. are said to be sympathetic to requests for more resources in Iraq but also wary of pushing the White House beyond what it is comfortable with.
They said that, while other Nato allies are sympathetic to requests for help against Isis, none are likely to want to become involved with the PKK, which is regarded as an internal problem for Turkey.
"Businesses can fail to recognise that investors are unlikely to be sympathetic to requests to scale back as [the investors] will be seeking to maximise a return on their investment," says Irvine.
"Increasingly over the last few years... there have been more and more schools saying: 'No we can't allow this any more because of this issue with unauthorised absence.'" In a recent letter to Ed Vaizey MP, England's education secretary Damian Hinds, said the government expected schools to be sympathetic to requests for leave to take these exams.
Yet the White House was more sympathetic to a request earlier this week from several senior Democrats in the House of Representatives, who wrote to Obama requesting a classified briefing on the role the Russians played in the election.
If anyone had assured him that the public would be sympathetic to his request for a zone of privacy, he has been getting terrible advice.
There were indications that, if the U.K. had been willing to hold the elections, the E.U. would have been sympathetic to a request for a long extension, involving a plan to thoroughly rethink Brexit.
They had petitioned the court for a brief embrace before opening statements, but those hopes were dashed when Cogan ruled that though he was "sympathetic" to the request, security concerns outweighed their affection.
There is growing pressure on the president-elect to be more sympathetic to such requests.
