6 sentences with 'sympathetic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sympathetic and other words derived from it.
• « Luther was quickly placed in the custody of a sympathetic German prince, Frederick the Wise of Saxony, who took him away and allowed him to continue his work writing anti-papal propaganda. »
• « In general, Protestant governments and elites were more open to the idea that God could reveal himself in nature itself, not just in Scripture, and therefore sympathetic to the piety of scientific research. »
• « In that, they found a surprisingly sympathetic audience among some conservative aristocrats who also feared social disorder and were nostalgic for the idea of a reciprocal set of obligations that had existed in pre-revolutionary Europe between the common people and the nobility. »
• « Thus, even nominally sympathetic male politicians repeatedly betrayed promises to push the issue of women's suffrage into law. »
• « In short, the Christian-dominated Balkans that had been part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries slipped away on the strength of modern nationalism and the military support they received from sympathetic European powers. »
• « Court officials sympathetic to his politics gave Hitler and his followers ridiculously short sentences in minimum security prisons, a sentence Hitler spent dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), to Nazi party secretary Rudolf Hess. »