1.   A second group of provincial delegates arrived in St Petersburg just after his appointment and provided him with a sympathetic audience for his opinions.

2.   And he underscored his longtime and occasionally teasing friendship with Brown before a sympathetic audience.

3.   Addressing a sympathetic audience, Putin boasted that he would neither participate in televised debates nor debase himself by preparing campaign commercials.

4.   After intermission, changed into a red velvet gown, Peters explained to her sympathetic audience that she was fighting a cold.

5.   By all accounts she made her plea with much eloquence, and a sympathetic audience warmly applauded.

6.   Done by Giuliani, it makes even a sympathetic Republican audience jump before laughing.

7.   Having a main character who has lost a parent assures a sympathetic audience, especially if the target group is young children.

8.   It was also a chance to test his plea for redemption among a sympathetic audience, largely of black people, who remain his most reliable supporters.

9.   McCain had clearly expected to find a more sympathetic audience Sunday.

10.   She had a sympathetic audience.