"It could also diminish popular sympathy and support for Hezbollah," he said.
It was a strategy to gain popular sympathy, and it worked.
M-19, which had a considerable following in the early 1980's, has lost many leaders as well as much popular sympathy, Colombian officials say.
Throughout the trial popular sympathy was on his side.
Such visions found only limited popular sympathy in the turbulent and divisive years immediately following the war.
Opinion polls, however, suggested widespread popular sympathy for his predicament.
All of these factors also influence the public and do much to determine popular sympathy and judgment.
But no one can rob them of popular sympathy towards them.
Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt.
In 1750, another uprising occurred as the haidamakas continued to receive popular sympathy.