I sympathize with you.

I think anyone who's recently been a parent can sympathize with this mother.

We sympathize with the aspirations of the group of four to expand their representation on the Council.

We sympathize with all the Sudanese people on the tragic death of their leader and Vice President, Mr. John Garang, who did so much to advance the peace process.

The only winner when Germans vote on September 27 will most likely be the party of non voters. I do not sympathize with this group, but I do understand that non voters expect only one thing of Germany s political parties these days practically the same

But the more relevant question is whom Khodorkovsky's letter aimed to address. Vedomosti readers may sympathize with Khodorkovsky's plight, but they account for only 60 thousand people. The public at large was basically unaware of Khodorkovsky's letter, because the state television networks did not report it.

To be sure, we still sympathize with people who, upon reaching middle age or later, find themselves replaced by lower paid workers in another part of the world, if not by a computer or a robot. But are we really going to do anything about these risks?

As much as we may sympathize with young would be millionaire traders, does their story of oppression make any sense? Could it be true that huge government investors from Asia (not to mention Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East) have quietly taken control of world markets?

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

When Tony Blair swept to power in 1997, he was widely welcomed throughout Europe as the most pro European British Prime Minister since Edward Heath a quarter of a century earlier. He spoke French and seemed at ease with Britain s neighbors across the Channel more importantly, he seemed to sympathize with European integration.

In the case of Greece, some investors and commentators may sympathize with the authorities contention that austerity measures have only hampered its recovery. They may accept that a default could be part of a policy package designed to improve the country s economic fundamentals and thus its capacity to repay its debt in the long term.

And the more pleasant our thoughts about individuals or groups are, the more we tend to sympathize with them. The fact that the lifestyles of the rich and famous seem almost the abstract idea of a perfect and happy state leads us to pity that anything should spoil and corrupt so agreeable a situation!

This stagnation in policymaking has been heavily criticized by the media and the influential Wirtschaftsrat (Economic Council), an association of entrepreneurs who sympathize with the CDU. Even Germany s Christian Democratic president, Horst Köhler, has continually reminded the government of the need to press ahead with economic reforms in order to pave the way for sustainable growth.

In Iraq, there is some evidence that its momentum has been halted but the growing role of Iran and the Shia militias it backs all but guarantees that many Iraqi Sunnis will come to sympathize with or even support the Islamic State, whatever their misgivings. This is why outsiders should place greater emphasis on providing military and political support to Kurdish forces and Sunni tribes.