verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a satisfied customer (= who is pleased with your goods or service )
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Satisfied customers will retun again and again.
fulfil/satisfy sb's expectations formal (= be as good as someone hoped or expected )
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The band failed to fulfil the fans' expectations.
meet/satisfy demand (= supply as much as people need or want )
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There are reports that the company cannot produce enough to meet demand.
meet/satisfy/fulfil a condition (= do what has been agreed )
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In order to get a state pension, you must satisfy certain conditions.
meet/satisfy/fulfil the criteria
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Does your experience meet the criteria for the job?
satisfy an urge (= do want you feel you want to do )
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He satisfied his urge to travel by going to India.
satisfy sb's curiosity (= find out something that you want to know )
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I decided to call him in order to satisfy my curiosity.
satisfy/fulfil a desire
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Companies aim to satisfy people's desire for variety.
satisfy/fulfil a requirement formal (= meet them )
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Our aim is to satisfy our customers’ requirements.
suit/satisfy/appeal to sb’s tastes (= provide what someone likes )
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We have music to suit every taste.
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The magazine caters for all tastes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
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Never sign anything until you are completely satisfied with every detail.
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Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
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No single product completely satisfies these requirements so the use of any particular agent is always a compromise.
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Then, when he was completely satisfied , he spoke to Hal over the radio circuit.
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If you are not completely satisfied , return it within 30 days for replacement or refund.
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I was not completely satisfied with these responses.
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Lamentably, none is completely satisfying .
entirely
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And as with all our offers we guarantee to refund your money if you're not entirely satisfied with your order.
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Clinton has been too protean to entirely satisfy either.
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But she wasn't entirely satisfied .
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The children themselves, 75 she continues, can be entirely satisfied .
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A similar structure would not entirely satisfy the Panel.
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And yet, am I entirely satisfied with my lot?
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She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned.
fully
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There was nothing particularly creditable in giving up an immoral life when you had fully satisfied that nagging curiosity.
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It can not fully satisfy both.
more
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Barrow's book is, to my mind, more satisfying , not just because he covers more ground.
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Neonatologist Susan Dulkerian says the technique makes the babies calmer and appear more satisfied .
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It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs, the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices.
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And, in the process, we can make the practice of law more satisfying and more fun.
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Daily we deal out our own justice in small ways that are more satisfying .
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In the long run, such methods may well be both cheaper for employers and more satisfying for employees.
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Patients in the x-ray group tended to be more satisfied with their care, however.
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There, people who chose low-fat restaurant meals were more satisfied than people who chose higher-fat foods in the same restaurants.
most
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His most satisfying role in television came with Question Time, 1979-89.
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He knew the sort of people he was addressing and he knew the sort of moral objections they found most satisfying .
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In many ways it should have been the most satisfying celebration of his years in public office.
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Some of my most satisfying work at Arky, Freed was done on behalf of Eastern Airlines flight attendants.
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Granted, watching without a plan, without a real show in mind, is not the most satisfying way to go.
never
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Does it not mean that preparers of accounts and auditors can never satisfy the market's reasonable expectations?
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At some point Rudi seemed to have accepted the fact that he would never satisfy his intellectual ambitions.
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But they can never satisfy desire.
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Aegisthus, of course, must die, but to kill him alone would never satisfy justice.
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She now knew that he could never satisfy her, but was not prepared to dislike him just for that.
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But saucer enthusiasts, it seems, are never satisfied .
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It never satisfied the White Paper's interest in another, shorter, flexible model of higher education.
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The money the family receives from the manufacturer for the wrongful death of a child will never satisfy them.
quite
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Despite it, I am quite satisfied that their evenings, their sleep and their general comfort were greatly disturbed.
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In the long run, I was quite satisfied , but only through my own endeavors.
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No-one moved until she had quite satisfied herself.
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Though Ferris' explanations are not quite satisfying , the questions are well worth trying to understand.
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Big Ron was never quite satisfied .
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It was quite satisfying to see them working their way up that hill.
very
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That means the customer gets the goods while still enthusiastic - and is very satisfied .
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It's merely guesswork and an abstract computation, not very satisfying .
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Looking at herself in the mirror, she was very satisfied .
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Overall, 54 percent are very satisfied , and an additional 36 percent are somewhat satisfied with their jobs.
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Purists might call it chiming rather than genuine ringing but Saint Mary's has some very satisfied customers.
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The initial research on Meurent is very satisfying .
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I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters, and great photos.
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Only four in 10 blue-collar, clerical and sales workers are very satisfied .
■ NOUN
appetite
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Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.
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The government is not some sinister monster gobbling up taxpayers' money simply to satisfy its own insatiable appetite .
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However, it will be unlikely that you could produce enough to satisfy the appetites of the Tangs on a continuous basis.
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First, there was the clear risk that particularization would feed rather than satisfy the appetite for further self-determination.
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Flake will not satisfy the appetite or requirements of a 10in Oscar.
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Obviously this would have some realistic effect in satisfying the appetite .
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These are designed to whet rather than satisfy the appetite - but short bibliographies help would-be students to delve further.
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I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
condition
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The parties will work to satisfy the closing conditions and launch the joint venture in the first quarter of 2000.
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However, to get any basic pension you must satisfy two conditions .
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It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition .
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It satisfies the five conditions on a metric.
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It is sufficient for the existence of a solution that the production function satisfies the Inada conditions and that.
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For our parse, we can choose the largest which satisfies this condition .
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They contain impulsive wave components, and therefore do not satisfy the conditions of Tipler's theorem.
court
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Such a description might well be enough to satisfy the court .
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But even these tests may be difficult to satisfy unless the courts are again prepared to be flexible.
criteria
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Female animal, on the other hand, comes close to satisfying the criteria .
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C., that it has satisfied 14 competition criteria spelled out by Congress in the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.
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This solution must satisfy specific criteria of outcome viability.
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For instance, we assume he would satisfy our behavioural criteria for being some one who knows the meaning of the word bank.
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If a local authority seeks a care order in respect of a supervised child it must apply under s31 and satisfy the relevant criteria .
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He must adduce sufficient evidence to satisfy the statutory criteria for the making of a particular order.
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Recruitment into the trials depended on patients satisfying the entry criteria and giving their informed consent.
curiosity
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If this is true, it seems an expensive way of satisfying one's curiosity .
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Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity .
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Foucard had once gone to that door, thrown it wide, given the room an all-embracing glance, satisfied his curiosity .
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You still haven't satisfied my curiosity .
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We too need to read the Bible in our hearts, rather than simply to discover facts or satisfy our curiosity .
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If you want to satisfy your curiosity about Bob's girlfriend, you ring him yourself.
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At least he had satisfied his curiosity .
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This seemed to satisfy the boy's curiosity .
customer
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Each individual uses the product of another supplier and his/her output has to satisfy a customer .
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Hence they tend to satisfy their customers while wasting far less.
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Purists might call it chiming rather than genuine ringing but Saint Mary's has some very satisfied customers .
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A happy and satisfied customer would tell five other people about the company.
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Fifteen separate routes have been made the responsibility of managers whose chief aim is to satisfy their customers .
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The desired outcome of most services, after all, is a satisfied customer .
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Employees at Yahoo! constantly experiment to improve their site and so satisfy more customers .
demand
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The consequence was that very few Yugoslav enterprises were established mainly to satisfy export demand .
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Minnebraker started manufacturing trikes to satisfy the demands of his aircraft parts business.
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The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.
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He needed to create junk bonds to satisfy the demand for them.
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Exacerbated by drought, water abstraction has increased by 70 percent over the past three years to satisfy consumer demand .
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To satisfy the demands of wealthier parishioners for more comfort during the often lengthy sermons, pews with cushions began to proliferate.
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But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand , and a technician is in regular attendance.
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Schools have to attempt to satisfy the conflicting demands of a whole range of individuals and groups.
desire
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It may well be that, throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs. 2.
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If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs.
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So when you become a woman, desire can never be satisfied , understanding never reached and escape never ever made.
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He can not understand that he is waiting only a matter of moments before his desire will be satisfied .
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The bottled woman arouses desire but does not satisfy it a function similar to modern advertising.
hunger
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Food, in our society, is used for many reasons other than simply to satisfy hunger .
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For example, boiled potatoes satisfied hunger seven times better than croissants.
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Perhaps the cat was killing to satisfy hunger .
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I had eaten four or five slices of bread without satisfying my hunger , so I reached for still another slice.
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Is it slowly savoured and really enjoyed, a splendid taste to satisfy the hunger pangs?
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When the others had satisfied their hunger he led the attack.
need
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At each stage of their individual development, a number of men stop and grow no further because their needs are satisfied .
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Thoughtful attention to needs of people for satisfying relationships leads to a comfortable, friendly organization atmosphere and work tempo.
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That need is most frequently satisfied by recourse to a nut or three.
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Only needs not yet satisfied can influence behavior; an adequately fulfilled need is not a motivator.
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Choice-the need to satisfy the wants and needs arising from socio-economic and demographic change.
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With the hen Jack could be content, since now all physical needs are permanently satisfied .
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If companies are going to prosper when economic conditions improve, how should these information needs be satisfied ?
reasonableness
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The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
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In other cases, liability can be excluded or restricted provided that the term satisfies a test of reasonableness .
requirement
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Next year one will be able to satisfy one's requirement by visiting Disneyland, Paris.
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We have found that a single hidden layer node per about 50 input nodes will satisfy our requirements in imaging applications.
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Much of what had seemed useless except for satisfying formal requirements , was now vital and important in the teaching situation.
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The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination.
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A specification for the computer system which will satisfy the user's requirements begins to evolve.
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The variety is enormous but many can be ruled out in not satisfying all the requirements .
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Beyond satisfying those requirements no specific grouping of subjects is stipulated.
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Flake will not satisfy the appetite or requirements of a 10in Oscar.
taste
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Is that enough to satisfy your taste for living?
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His works satisfied public taste perhaps better than anything else available at the time.
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Classes to satisfy nearly every taste and interest are available.
test
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The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
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In other cases, liability can be excluded or restricted provided that the term satisfies a test of reasonableness.
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The Vienna Sales Convention prescribes two alternative methods of satisfying the connection test .
■ VERB
fail
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Microwave oven danger list fails to satisfy critics.
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That alarmed the conservationists while failing to satisfy the engineers.
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New prototypes have so far failed to satisfy him.
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The presidential decision failed to satisfy either the originators of the law or its main critics.
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But even that failed to satisfy the council and, last week, a grovelling apology had to be broadcast.
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But it failed to satisfy opposition leaders, who announced they would continue their protests until all their demands are met.
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Schools will therefore be liable to lose pupils and funds if they fail to satisfy parents.
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They call for more research, and dismiss study after study which fails to satisfy them.
seem
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Cuthbert's oblique reference to Aldfrith in his reply seems to have satisfied her.
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Local officials sometimes complained about adverse decisions and strings attached to the grant but generally seemed satisfied .
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The customers seem to be satisfied already.
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But saucer enthusiasts, it seems , are never satisfied .
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Much of what had seemed useless except for satisfying formal requirements, was now vital and important in the teaching situation.
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The latter seems to satisfy them because it still gives them a little information they so desperately crave.
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This symbolic gesture seemed to satisfy them.
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That explanation seemed to satisfy plaintiffs attorneys.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(are you) satisfied?
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I'm here now - are you satisfied ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A compromise was eventually reached, but even this failed to satisfy environmentalists.
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Applicants will have to satisfy the committee that they are suitable for the job.
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Her explanation failed to satisfy the jury.
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I tried on dozens of wedding dresses before I found one that satisfied me.
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The changes I made seemed to satisfy Cooley.
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The cheapest products satisfy only minimum safety requirements.
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The police said that they were satisfied with his story and let him go free.
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What numbers will satisfy the equation 2x + 3 >13?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In addition more detailed information is obtained on occasion in order to satisfy the needs of adhoc detailed projects.
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We've already satisfied ourselves that it was an accident.
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When the others had satisfied their hunger he led the attack.