The state wanted to encourage people with children to continue working and are sympathetic in this way (as things stand).

Everyone at the camp was very sympathetic and understanding; infuriatingly so in fact.

Sure, everybody would be sympathetic, in the emotional sense of the word.

Does his devotion to Emma at this point make him seem more sympathetic in your eyes?

Washington, though, seemed less sympathetic toward one of its recent partners in China.

Whatever the reason, it is hard to imagine an administration less likely to be sympathetic to California's plight than the one currently in power.

He trusted me because I was sympathetic toward his interest in the occult.

If that is sympathetic in some people's view, so be it.

The words were sympathetic in themselves, but they conveyed her irritation.

"Well," he said, "I should judge you were rather sympathetic in your nature."