The essential pitch to both New Yorkers and the IOC is that the facilities that would be built to please the IOC would also benefit New Yorkers, and indeed are things that New York should be building anyway, and would if the city could just get off its duff.
The Gothic north portal was said to have been built to please the landowner William Rhodes, who wanted to use one of the towers as a belvedere.
Like the general public, donors react to highly emotionally charged stories that in some cases are built to please them or are told at the expense of the same children they want to protect.
This philosophy could generally be extended to Strawberry Hill, which, with his characteristic humorous self-deprecation, Walpole referred to as a "small capricious house, built to please my own taste, and in some degree to realize my own visions" — a statement that hides the true importance of this unique enterprise and its ability to delight and amaze even today.
Alan Gilbert is in the final weeks of his first season as music director of the New York Philharmonic, and whether or not he thinks in terms of having something to prove — it's hard to think of a conductor who would not — his programs seem built to please.
Despite its origins, Fanhattan is built to please media companies and Hollywood studios as much as consumers.
"If you need the facilities you should build them," he says, and he wonders if a track-and-field facility especially one built specifically to please the IOC– is really New York's most pressing need.
Brian Souter and Rupert Murdoch have flirted with Salmond because they can sniff a small state coming that must, whatever its currency turns out to be, run surpluses and build reserves to please the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and, above all, a market that will punish the tiniest step away from neo-liberal orthodoxy.
He even dares to talk of new nuclear plants, emitting no carbon, which Cinergy could never have afforded but which the combined firm might build.Just guff drummed up to please the carbon crowd?
If I were the head of a religious community in New York, I'd simply turn to the governor and say, "Now, give me my money for the cultural center I want to build, please?" The "controversy" would arise quite naturally, from the very first press release complaining of "state-sponsored mosques".
In his old age, our ancestor Simon Finch had built it to please his nagging wife, but with the porches all resemblance to ordinary houses of its era ended.
