61.   Government officials have charged that Estrada is trying to politicize his graft trial by playing the martyr in order to win public sympathy.

62.   His campaign has also won sympathy from ordinary South Africans who accuse politicians of profiting from their positions.

63.   However, the beleagured skipper does win the sympathy of Roy Hattersley, who accuses the media of blowing the affair out of proportion.

64.   Afghan asylum seekers are mutilating their children to try and win sympathy in their fight to stay in Australia, officials alleged here Wednesday.

65.   Underdogs always win crowd sympathy unless they are so bad as to devalue the spectacle.

66.   Such behaviour, while grabbing headlines for the reporters themselves, won little sympathy from many of their colleagues.

67.   The Bosnian government has yet to win sympathy in western capitals for the lifting of the arms embargo.

68.   The Dunblane parents have won wide sympathy across the country for their campaign for total handgun prohibition, and their message was unlikely to fall on deaf ears.