11.   Children, churches, city halls and entire small towns have offered sympathy and pledged support.

12.   Committee chairman Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, offered little sympathy to the failed companies.

13.   Even Irwin Kosover, a lawyer who represents the insurance companies that pay out the awards in personal injury cases, offered his sympathies.

14.   Even if it is your fault, they could have offered sympathy.

15.   Families of the prisoners appealed this week for help to the speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karroubi, but he was able to offer only sympathy.

16.   For those with stubborn cats, I can only offer sympathy.

17.   From the White House to City Hall, officials offered sympathy for the victims and outrage for the gunman.

18.   Former President Bill Clinton visited a grief counseling center at the Armory on Lexington Avenue, shaking hands and offering sympathy.

19.   He does not offer sympathy to people in Lincoln Towers, saying that new shopping and parks promised with Riverside South will improve their quality of life.

20.   I listened and offered sympathy, but I also tried to distract her, to be a counterbalance to the concerns that weighed her down.