Now Julia deserves far greater sympathy than she has popularly won.
The owners, conversely, deserve little civic sympathy and no public subsidies.
If this were simply a matter of truth in packaging, they might deserve sympathy.
It therefore, in a certain sense, deserves sympathy, and looks to me for encouragement .
No one disagrees that victims of crime deserve sympathy and respectful treatment.
But the general rejected any suggestion that he deserved sympathy.
He was quoted as saying, "If somebody died, they deserve sympathy but not an apology."
This is not to say that pro athletes deserve sympathy.
"Its people cannot bear responsibility for the past developments; they deserve sympathy, compassion and support."
It's hard to know who deserves sympathy in the audience-vs.