Sentence examples for sympathy effect from inspiring English sources

Now, she said, the timing is harder to predict because of what she called "the sympathy effect".

Other committee members said the terror attacks on the World Trade Center might have a sympathy effect on votes, but there was no unanimity on that subject.

Juan Cruz Díaz of Cefeidas, a political-risk consultancy, says the "sympathy effect" is likely to be strong only among people who already support her.Two other factors are working against her.

So much for the "sympathy effect".

Connolly et al. [ 11] reported declines in confidence (3%) and the relevance of research (13%) with no change in sympathy (effect sizes not reported).

Seemingly written in tones of concerned sympathy, in effect – and this is truly a shocking claim – it implied he was prepared to trade on his son's devastating condition in order to soften up public opinion.

He added: "The attack has had an immediate sympathy-generating effect and it could help his people to bounce legislation through parliament to change the relationship between the judiciary and the executive".

The judge, prosecutors suggested, was trying to provoke the jury into ignoring the facts and acquitting out of sympathy -- in effect, encouraging an act of civil disobedience.

Comments like these reinforced the belief that the Duke and Duchess held Nazi sympathies and the effect of the abdication crisis of 1936 was to force off the throne a man with extreme political views.

It is the moment when she lived with anxiety about her husband, her daughter and herself, and when she was surrounded by the hate of the Jacobin revolutionaries and the members of her class who reproached her for her treason, that Sophie vaunted the sweet effects of sympathy!" [my translation]).

The gift for sympathy Saunders exercises to uneven effect in the reported pieces finds apt outlet in a superb essay about "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".