Sentence examples for claims to please from inspiring English sources

Although it has been suggested that local people were inventing claims to please Maple, many of which were based on older tales regarding the Essex cunning man James Murrell, subsequent research by historian Ronald Hutton has confimed the folklorist's original accounts.

McCaffrey also claims to be pleased with the World Anti-Doping andncy, and its chairman, Richard Pound of Canada, praising the new I.O.C. testing for EPO, the hormone that creates extra endurance.

Yahoo claims to be "pleased" to hold onto more of its stake, post-IPO.

Lacking the boisterous companionship of other boys they could not acquire manly traits; governed by women, they never learned to dominate women themselves, which, the pamphlet claimed, was requisite to please a wife.

Many authors claim to write fiction to please themselves, without worrying about what any reader might think.

Claiming they were trying to please an Internet character named Slender Man, whom they believed was real, two 12-year-old girls allegedly attempted to murder their classmate this June in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

The Yuan has been caught in a see-saw, with one side claiming manipulation to juice China's export earnings while the other claims it is propped up to please the IMF and placate the West.

But Callicles also claims that he argues only to please Gorgias (506c); and in the end, he opts out of the discussion altogether, retreating into surly silence.

"The claim that they were trying to please public opinion is too cynical and cruel.

He claimed: "I, in my overeagerness to please her, either sustained the pressure just too long or just gripped too tightly".

She also told me that my father had great" erections "and was a homosexual; later she claimed she'd said that to please me".