Prior to accepting Catholicism, he was interested in the Christian heresy Arianism, sympathetic with it, and perhaps even leaning toward adopting it.
When he was approached by representatives of church groups sympathetic to Mr. Gonzalez, he accepted the job after consulting with top officials of the White House, the Department of Justice and the State Department, where Mr. Craig had been director of the policy planning staff earlier in the Clinton administration.
Mark raises some cash and finds a sympathetic Welsh mining leader to accept it: a dignified and intelligent performance from Paddy Considine as Dai.
While it is hard not to be sympathetic to this view, and to accept that the book will resonate, in the context of a patriarchal society, in a very different way with women than men, I argued then, as I will now, that the novel opens up a broad discussion on the workings and limits of fiction.
Instead of getting a sympathetic ear, they now have to accept my £5 pills for £15, all while I'm being a gruff, ungrateful bastard.
But Brooks Newmark, Tory MP for Braintree, who has just returned from a three-day visit to camps on the Syrian-Turkish border, said he was "sympathetic to the idea" of accepting a limited number.
Behind the scenes, legislators from the sympathetic "pan-democratic" bloc may try to convince protesters to accept a lower threshold for the nominating committee's selection of candidates.
While the film is sympathetic to its protagonist, it is cynical about her decision to accept money for the shoot.
Lynch's promise to accept without modification the recommendations of the F.B.I. has removed a potentially sympathetic voice from the process.
I know it gets them sympathetic comments and the feeling that they are relating to their audience, but aren't they just telling their audience to accept the same limitations that they have accepted?
