Sentence examples for except to satisfy from inspiring English sources

Other animals never do it except to satisfy their hunger, or in the rage of combat ….

3. "Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital needs".

"They're going to have spent $2bn but will have achieved nothing except to satisfy their own vanity".

One danger for Brazil is that the new company will be a lucrative shell with no real function except to satisfy the avarice of politicians.

All students except AB seniors are eligible to satisfy their IW requirements with either advising style.

After losses by Bayern in the Champions League final in two of the past three years, nothing is going to satisfy Bayern except a European championship.

The governor's two-month selection circus process was needlessly drawn-out and seemed to satisfy no one (except Kirsten Gillibrand).

(John Staurt Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 1848) "The quantity theory of money thus rests, ultimately, upon the fundamental peculiarity which money alone of all human goods possesses – the fact that it has no power to satisfy human wants except a power to purchase things which do have such power".

But conditions and are difficult to satisfy in applications except some special situations.

Suppose I developed a desire to murder someone and would act to satisfy the desire except that I am deterred by the law's coercive threats.

Ultimately, we located some different cookies to substitute, which seemed to satisfy everyone... except one sweet little girl with a nut allergy.