But the courts, which have recently been unsympathetic towards executive privilege, were unlikely to swallow this.
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Conservative MP Martin Vickers said the planning process was unsympathetic to developers who needed to attract investors.
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Modern students, however, are often unsympathetic to the conformity required by the system, and to its expense.
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In all, his chosen roles amount to a rogues' gallery of unsympathetic predators.
"Given the notorious sentiment of the British public about animals, this could make the government look unnecessarily unsympathetic, " it said.
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But, because the Tories were seen as unsympathetic to disabled people, it was hard for them to launch tough reforms.
Judy Kuhn as sickly Fosca sings impeccably, imbuing her unsympathetic character with an almost-feral, obsessive, clinging ferocity that overshadows everything else.
While there have been quite a few lawsuits in the U.S. over embarrassing search results, U.S. courts have generally been unsympathetic.
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The first Bush beat the somewhat robotic and unsympathetic Michael Dukakis but he then lost to the younger, more telegenic Clinton.
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The Republicans do not want to sound unsympathetic to the reform that they propose to crush, since that might annoy voters.
Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson was unsympathetic to their claims, finding that their conduct was objectionable enough to warrant censure by the university.
And Hoffman takes an unsympathetic character and imbues him with a tunnel vision and an egotism that are equally touching and appalling.
Iain Duncan Smith, the welfare secretary, is not unsympathetic to these demands.
My boss, for the record, told the unsympathetic co-worker to back off.
But big net contributors like Britain, Germany and the Netherlands are unsympathetic.
Big global retailers were unsympathetic, showing their own greater knowledge of Chinese manufacturing by driving ever tougher bargains with small producers that desperately needed orders.
Few things can hurt a brand's word-of-mouth like a rude hotel desk clerk, a high-pressure stockbroker or a perpetually late airline with unsympathetic flight attendants.
But in the Supreme Court today, their argument got a distinctly unsympathetic reception, not that the justices gave an easy ride to the government's advocate either.
Tom House, the Legion's head of pensions, says this is not just about the war pensioners in Harrow and is unsympathetic over the council's financial dilemma.
The defense revealed inconsistencies in the testimony of the current accuser when he took the stand, and the teen's younger brother was a surly and unsympathetic witness.
They say Mr Brown's "attack dogs" are not afraid to brief against ministers or MPs seen as disloyal, and have bullied journalists who have written unsympathetic stories.
At least John Turturro, who shows up at the halfway mark as an unsympathetic government operative, seems to have understood that "manic" is the only appropriate response.
There have been lots of questions about bins, chimneys and slates and other loose debris damaging parked cars, and resulting calls to unsympathetic councils about their wayward property.
So far, Larry Summers, America's treasury secretary, has been unsympathetic.
The man responsible for the bus station, The Minister for Transport and Technical Services, Constable Mike Jackson, said he wasn't unsympathetic to the idea of opening the centre later into the evening.
Wary of alarming the many Egyptians, Christians, secularists or unsympathetic fellow Muslims who fear the Brotherhood, its spokesmen say it will neither run a candidate for the next presidency nor seek a parliamentary majority.
More broadly, if manufacturers are struggling to keep their handset launch schedules in sync with Google's in-house development, it's no wonder that Android skins seem so unsympathetic to the green robot's natural complexion.
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