Example sentences of "[vb past] little sympathy " in BNC.
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| 1 | When elections were held in Maine to elect the state 's senators in 1978 , Hayes E Gahagan stood for office on a strong right-wing , no nonsense ticket : abortion , women 's rights and similarly liberal measures found little sympathy in his campaign . |
| 2 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 3 | Stolypin 's reforms found little sympathy in the Second Duma , which met in February 1907 . |
| 4 | The National Association for Staff Development ( NASD ) , for example , characterized it as ‘ a meagre preliminary to what should be an urgent discussion of a markedly neglected topic ’ , and the Regional Management Centres Association ( RMCA ) found little sympathy for the discussion paper on the grounds that it reflected a traditional approach to staff development . |
| 5 | However , Nottingham showed little sympathy and Pepper rubbed salt in their wounds . |
| 6 | The touring painters , however , showed little sympathy towards the quiet intimacy of the valleys and lakes which became so evident in the literature at the end of the 18th century . |
| 7 | When Jimmy Shine opened on Broadway on Thursday , 5 December 1968 , at the Brooks Atkinson Theater , the New York critics showed little sympathy . |
| 8 | Popular Athenian sentiment in ancient times showed little sympathy for aliens , deviants or whingers , and it could be rough on women as a species ; and there is a strong male smell of British-is-best among writers newly emerged after 1945 . |
| 9 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 10 | Other dealers felt little sympathy for this director . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 13 | Mr Justice Hawkins , in his summing up , certainly had little sympathy for Woolridge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such a reality had little sympathy for the training of character and the creation of citizens . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The doctor had little sympathy for the Imperial . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |