One diplomat said the greatest risk of all in the current frenzy over Soviet food supplies is the danger that Western sympathy will be spent by the time it is needed.

Is he surprised and warmed, at least, by the sudden outpouring of Western sympathy in this bleak winter?

Brazenly jousting with his accusers, he also played to the Western sympathies he had spent so much time and money cultivating.

Ubuntu and tribal distinctions are not aspects of this dispute that the political leaders on either side choose to underscore in their appeals for Western sympathy.

Radio Free Europe, Washington's mouthpiece, egged on the uprising, declaring on Nov. 4, 1956, that a "practical manifestation of Western sympathy is expected at any hour."

Richard Landes criticised Hamas for firing from the midst of civilians leading to casualties that were then blamed on Israeli counter-strikes to garner Western sympathy.

A reminder of his own Western sympathies.

This article states that my father told his listeners that day that a "practical manifestation of Western sympathy is expected at any hour."

He has tried to generate Western sympathy for an arms treaty by stressing that domestic change in the Soviet Union depends on relaxing international tensions.

Longman casts the hijacker pilot Ziad Jarrah, for example, as a sort of fallen bourgeois who renounced his Western sympathies.