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Struck under the Mongol Abaqa Khan | Il-Khan Abaqa who was sympathetic towards Christianity.
The Mongol Empire was known for its religious tolerance, but had a special leaning towards Buddhism and was sympathetic towards Christianity.
Riviera tries to kill Case, but Lady 3Jane is sympathetic towards Case and Molly, and Hideo protects him.
Many theatre works were sympathetic towards Marxist themes, or were overt experiments in propaganda, such as the agitprop theatre by Brecht and Weill.
* In American English: nigger lover initially applied to abolitionists, then to white folk sympathetic towards black Americans.
On the other hand, the zelanti – the pro-Jesuit party among the cardinals – believed him secretly sympathetic towards the Jesuits, and expected some reparation for the alleged wrongs they suffered under the previous reign.
The parties which do advocate a stance more sympathetic towards reunification often command considerable support for reasons that have nothing to do with cross-strait relations.
Frank Miller's 1998 comic book miniseries 300, and the 2006 film adaptation of the same name, portray Ephialtes as a severely deformed Spartan in exile who betrays the Spartan army after Leonidas, although sympathetic towards him, denies him the right to fight because he was unable to lift a shield high enough, thus compromising the integrity of the phalanx formation.
Woolley is sympathetic towards Hacker but as Appleby reminds him, his civil servant superiors will have much to say about the course of his future career, while ministers do not usually stay long in one department.
Although Pilate would prefer to crucify Barabbas rather than Jesus, he is not portrayed as being especially sympathetic towards Jesus.
" In Anthony Burgess's novel Man of Nazareth, based on Jesus of Nazareth, Pilate is portrayed as being more sympathetic towards Jesus, recognising the validity of his doctrine and even telling Jesus he is free to go, although Jesus tells Pilate he has to condemn him to death.
In the film, Pilate is portrayed as world-weary and somewhat sympathetic towards Jesus, but believes he has to die to preserve the local status quo.
The introduction Taylor wrote was fairly sympathetic towards the Bolsheviks but also pointedly tweaked the Kremlin's nose by pointing out certain contradictions between Reed's book and the official historiography in the Soviet Union — for instance Leon Trotsky played a very prominent and heroic role in Ten Days That Shook The World while in 1963 Trotsky was almost a non-person in Soviet historiography, mentioned only in terms of abuse.
Churchill emerged from the Sedgemoor campaign with great credit, but he was anxious not to be seen as sympathetic towards the King's growing religious ardour against the Protestant establishment.
The local German administrator, more sympathetic towards the town's Renaissance architecture, played for time by requesting what sort of German architecture was required.
The numerical superiority of the Western powers combined with the one state, one vote system meant that the Secretary-General would come from one of them, and would potentially be sympathetic towards the West.
Although he did not become a Buddhist in later years, he still remained sympathetic towards Buddhism.
He is sympathetic towards her and they discuss the possibility of taking a holiday to forget the recent incident.
The film is sympathetic towards the left wing revolutionaries and strongly critical of the U. S .- supported death squads, focusing on their murder of four American churchwomen, including Jean Donovan, and their assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero.
Occasionally, characters he would have known as a teenager are brought in and whilst they have all gone on in life and had some success, Granville has remained his uncle's errand boy — the ageing Granville is still treated like a child, in particular by Arkwright, but also by customers in the shop, even those sympathetic towards his predicament.
In support of his argument, Moore cites examples of notable figures who have become more sympathetic towards particular problems or situations when they have become personally affected themselves, including:
Francisco Goya's Charles IV of Spain and His Family references Las Meninas, but is less sympathetic towards its subjects than Velázquez's portrait.
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He publicly criticized some NGO's and figures in the civil society for being sympathetic towards the Maoists.
In spite of his Paisley Sheriff ’ s Depute job bringing him “ into the thick of military suppression of the Radical risings and civil disturbances around 1820 ; in 1818 he was knocked unconscious by an angry crowd and narrowly escaped being thrown in the River Cart .” he was extremely sympathetic towards both Tannahill and the radical poet Alexander Wilson in his introduction to The Harp of Renfrewshire.

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