What is "sympathizers"

Usage examples of "sympathizers".

Her barrister was the best available, paid for by sympathizers of the antiPSP cause, of which there were plenty.

Moscow, Sasanov had given the department details of the Soviet Intelligence network operating in the Low Countries, and a list of sympathizers in NATO, some of whom were already being watched.

By the time the United States and the West had interpreted what was happening, the whole bloc to the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz would be invested with Soviet sympathizers, and the seas open to the Red Fleet.

Both the Peruvian and Colombian diplomatic corps were riddled with defectors, either Sendero Luminoso sympathizers or on the Medellin cartel payroll, sometimes both, and performing their double-crosses for the large amounts of money which Latin American drug lords paid.

Sendero has sympathizers and informers in many places and one of them sent this recently, hoping I would broadcast it.

But what comparison, in numbers, have such bands ever borne to the insurgent sympathizers even in many of the loyal states?