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How to use the word satisfy in a Sentence?

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Anyone who wants to run for president or any federal office will have to satisfy that requirement or they won’t get the support of this movement, that healthy debate on that debate stage is where this will all be worked out in terms of who the candidate should be, and may the best man or woman win.

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on CNN
12 months ago

To satisfy their curiosity they ’ll begin to ask questions about babies and where they came from as a way of trying to understand why they are here.

Rebecca Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you really need to prepare yourself for a warmer future, you need a reliable water supply in your house for everyone, if you do n’t have that, you are more vulnerable to increase in temperatures. Bottled water will satisfy the thirst, but it will not provide a sustainable solution.

Vladimir Smakhtin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She approaches the male head-on and literally tastes the stuff, and she’s basically asking the question, ‘Can you put out? Do you have enough cantharidin to satisfy my desires?’ And if he doesn’t, she won’t mate with him.

Dan Young

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Samantha Markle does not satisfy the high standard required to stay discovery pending the resolution of a dispositive motion.

Samantha Markle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ultimately order something that is going to satisfy you and make you feel good when you walk out of the restaurant, so you didn’t spend like $20 on lunch and left feeling hungry still looking for snacks, the more satisfied you are with what you eat, the less you feel the need to mindlessly snack.

Natalie Mokari

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The show is not simply about the supernatural -- it presents hope, it shows that material things don't satisfy. That's why I think people in the world are so discouraged. It [ the show ] makes us think of things that do satisfy.

Michael Foust

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Recessions can be cleansing events for the economy as a whole, forcing inefficient behemoths out of business and making room for more nimble competitors who can better satisfy customer needs, this time around, the economy has changed enough following the pandemic that new business opportunities are bound to have opened up.

Lakshman Achuthan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First, I do believe most people don't want to leave home. They don't want to leave their grandmother. They don't want to leave the place where they worship and the community that they've always known, and so, when they do, it is usually for one of two reasons: They are fleeing harm, or to stay means they simply cannot satisfy their basic needs or the needs of their family.

Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

added by unochickie
1 year ago

Don’t sublimate your own freedom and desires in order to satisfy the invisible judgments of others against hypothetical wrongdoings.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

The changes we've made to the company and continued strong economic growth prospects make us feel good about how we are positioned entering 2022, but we also remain cognizant that we still have a multiyear effort to satisfy our regulatory requirements — with setbacks likely to continue along the way — and we continue our work to put exposures related to our historical practices behind us.

Wells Fargo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

added by Normando
2 years ago

We're not against vaccination, but we want to verify it, to satisfy our worries, because there have been many side effects, we don't think that the vaccine components are very safe. It's not a safe vaccine.

Neculai Miron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've got enough coal here to satisfy whatever the demand is, and yet we're giving approval to open more mines, i think the world will push Australia into doing the right thing.

John Krey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now you can get all the [ publicly-listed ] companies like ourselves out of the production of oil and gas, it will not have a single barrel of impact on the overall demand level, because all of that production will in essence migrate to many other countries — national oil companies — who will satisfy that demand.

Wael Sawan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They can not yet be called oppositionists, but the demand for change is growing, and the composition of the State Duma that will be offered to them will clearly not satisfy them.

Andrei Pivovarov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is an encouraging move. Certainly, it doesn't satisfy every concern with policing consent decrees, but an incremental move in the right direction, under Obama admin these consent decrees ballooned in scope exponentially and do a much better job at adding to monitors' personal wealth than anything else. They MUST be significantly more narrow and pragmatic to have any hope of realizing their stated goal.

Jason Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Speaker has structured this select committee to satisfy her political objectives.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He remains severely mentally ill at this point, and so I think it would be unlikely that he could satisfy the standard for competency for a new trial, in order to be sentenced to death, there would have to be a new sentencing proceeding a new sentencing trial, and I'm not sure that he would satisfy the standard to be competent for trial.

Jim Marcus

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Where clients knowingly sign up to such mandate designs, they are often implicitly permitting portfolio managers to pay a `greenium’ [green-based premium] for bonds that satisfy the relevant criteria.

James Athey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

A man is a man if he provide all his family needs and satisfy them.

Niliflash

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

I do expect that the Biden-Harris administration will take affirmative steps within the first day or so of taking office to satisfy their campaign pledges.

Alphonso David

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We don't want them to come with high expectations and then feel disappointed, we are not always the best food restaurant, but we try to do our best every day and to satisfy our customers and not oversell anything.

Feigang Fei

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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