"We therefore thought she would be sympathetic to our message".
Your friend Norbert said that you would be sympathetic.
If we withdrew, the Iranians would demand redress, and the other parties would be sympathetic.
The violence is not coming from people who would be sympathetic to any such interim government.
She was sure her old friends would be sympathetic, but only if it wouldn't hurt their businesses.
You'd think Catholics, who watched with trepidation as J.F.K. battled prejudice, would be sympathetic to Mitt Romney.
This suggests she would be sympathetic to Mr Obama's claim of almost Bush-like powers over terrorist suspects.
He claimed the decision to keep them off the stand was deliberately taken because "the jury would be sympathetic".
PARKLAND, Fla .— After Manuel and Patricia Oliver lost their son in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, they assumed their neighbors would be sympathetic.
Seeing how upset church elders still were, even decades later, and suspecting that the new Government would be sympathetic, he began searching Pretoria burial records.
Meeting the families of IRA hunger-strikers in the 1980s, he would be sympathetic as ever, but would never let himself be swayed by terrorists or "crawthumpers".
