And an individual homeowner can be a more sympathetic witness before a property tax appeal board than can a lawyer or a professional appraiser.

Let them go out there and probably get butchered as a race without so much as one sympathetic witness to at least grieve?

Wounded but stoic, and exhibiting not an ounce of self-pity, she was the single most effective and sympathetic witness I have ever seen.

To emphasize that point, Mr. Ginsburg portrayed his client today as a witness more sympathetic to the President than was assumed.

Mr. Ginsburg also portrayed his client as a witness more sympathetic to the President than had been assumed.

Belk leaned over and whispered that Chandler was following a good guy-bad guy pattern by alternating police witnesses with her sympathetic witnesses.

McCarthy's real "victims" were not sympathetic witnesses, frivolous Hollywood screenwriters, or irrelevant blowhard college professors.

Before a third try, a sympathetic witness said, she cleared the room and proclaimed herself thoroughly humiliated.

I knew from the beginning we would have a tough time because she was not going to be a sympathetic witness.

They organized sympathetic "witnesses" as observers to record on video events at the boat landings, the sites of protests.