And I believe that a jury would be sympathetic to any person charged with perjury for dancing around questions put to them that demanded an admission of marital infidelity -- that is, unless the case -- the answers were essential to the resolution of a very substantial claim.

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However, in other cases, perhaps with less sympathetic claimants, it would be perfectly acceptable for respondents to return the volley with a withering salvo of counterclaims.

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The left flank of the party seems to think Mr Zuma will be more sympathetic than the current government with its liberal economic policy.

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At the moment, the foregoing appear to be advancing a common agenda with considerable sympathetic treatment from the international press: Israel's occupation of Arab lands helps legitimate Islamist terror against her ally, the United States.

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Money may be deposited first with a banker who is sympathetic to the cause.

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The one feeling he shares with other would-be-sympathetic Africa hands is disappointment.

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But in these recessionary times, even financial officers can be sympathetic underdogs, and instead the film contents itself with puerile cracks about his manhood and undeveloped hints that her bad influence might rub off in a good way.

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In the years since their first conversation, during the Compaq acquisition, Keyworth and Kawamoto had spoken often by telephone, and he had found her to be a sympathetic listener, especially while his wife was ill with terminal cancer.

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For instance, it could be that looking at females heightens sympathetic nervous system pathways which are associated with fight or flight impulses.

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In September 2002, al-Hanooti traveled to Iraq with three members of Congress whom he believed to be sympathetic to lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq.

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Even if healthy people use them, we can be a little more sympathetic to those who fool a partner for a few hours than to those who fool history with chemically enhanced world records.

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