21.   Iraqi dissidents have urged John Paul against making the trip, saying it would gain undeserved international sympathy for a regime guilty of persistent human rights violations.

22.   Seeking international sympathy, his former colleagues distanced themselves from Pol Pot and his genocidal policies by sentencing him to life imprisonment in a show trial in July.

23.   Sought to take advantage of the huge international sympathy toward Mandela.

24.   The quake led to an outpouring of international sympathy for Turkey.

25.   The rebellion itself has been stalled by a cease-fire, but the Zapatistas have tried to mobilize international sympathy and have organized conferences of supporters in the area.

26.   The vote cost Israel a measure of international sympathy it had gained for suffering a wave of suicide bombings.

27.   Violence against Serbs, however, has led to increased international sympathy for them and a cooling of support for the Albanians.

28.   France won that security battle but lost the media stakes with Greenpeace still getting intensive media coverage, and a lot of international sympathy over the tactics used.

29.   But his ambition of also winning international sympathy has not worked, Kommersant said.

30.   Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, who led the opposition to the bill, said toughening US sanctions against Cuba would stir international sympathy for Castro.