Sentence examples for sympathies from inspiring English sources

Curiously, pro-Russian sympathies are growing, as reactions to the crisis in Ukraine tend to demonstrate.

Throughout the 70s, Bond's sympathies had always been with the Liberals – he'd campaigned against Gough Whitlam, for instance.

On the best interpretation Powell, a man of strong imperialist sympathies, was ungenerous in treating the post-imperial human legacy with such cynical or at least selfish disregard.

The first Hollywood blacklist, a list of directors, screenwriters, composers, actors and other film-makers suspected of communist sympathies, was published in 1947.

Over the two years of her higher school certificate, she has truanted frequently, she has failed to hand in assignments, she has failed to turn up on time, she has failed to meet uniform requirements, she has failed to attend some of her HSC trial exams, she has exhausted the patience of teachers and pushed to the outer limits the structural sympathies of the public school system.

"This diary would be sufficient to hang me five times a week," she wrote in 1944, adding in another entry: "I am rather astonished I am not … reported for my allied sympathies".

And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.

"The Rugby League community will mourn his loss and I wish to extend our deepest sympathies to Danny's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.

Appearing on national television to extend his sympathies to the families of the victims, the Kenyan president, Daniel arap Moi, expressed disbelief that such terrorist acts had happened in Kenya.

Millions of citizens in the restive east, however, did not vote at all, either because of separatist sympathies, feelings of intimidation by pro-Russian militias or simply a lack of polling stations.

When I ask if he has feminist sympathies, he looks surprised: "Not just sympathies – I identify very strongly with feminists".