Example sentences of "had little sympathy " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can imagine the mordant amusement with which Sir Ian watched the poll tax legislation of a government with which he had little sympathy being hissed off the statute book amid public disorder to the alarm of its erstwhile supporters . |
| 2 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Hawkins , in his summing up , certainly had little sympathy for Woolridge . |
| 4 | Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes . |
| 5 | Such a reality had little sympathy for the training of character and the creation of citizens . |
| 6 | In addition , many local people , regarding the environment as something to be exploited in order to make a living whether as a farmer or as a fisherman , had little sympathy for the idea of landscape protection or conservation . |
| 7 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 8 | He further asserts that during the nineteenth century litigants did not understand the way courts worked and were in awe of their proceedings , and that the intermediaries between litigants and justice , lawyers , court officials and petition-drawers , had little sympathy with or understanding for the average Sri Lankan . |
| 9 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 10 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 11 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources . |
| 13 | For Tom Mann , who became the ITF 's first president , the organisation came to have an additional aim with which Wilson had little sympathy — that of advancing the cause of international socialism . |
| 14 | Though Polly had little sympathy for Clive after what he had put her through , this merciless dismissal of another man 's entire future made her skin crawl . |
| 15 | The doctor had little sympathy for the Imperial . |
| 16 | Military and naval attachés usually regarded their appointments merely as interludes in their service careers and often had little sympathy with the outlook and preoccupations of professional diplomats . |
| 17 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 18 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |