Sentence examples for give him satisfaction from inspiring English sources
Does that give him satisfaction?
Iran's president has challenged Barack Obama to join him before the media for a "man to man" debate on "world issues" when the two attend the UN's General Assembly in New York later this month.Mr Obama is unlikely to give him satisfaction but Mr Ahmadinejad's opponents fear any sign that the Americans regard him as a possible interlocutor, thereby raising his prestige at home.
At first I was also seeing Jeremy, but in late June, straight after finals, he moved to Edinburgh, to work on a Ph.D. My life became less fraught, though it still troubled me that I hadn't cracked his secret by the time he left and couldn't give him satisfaction.
This was a particular hazard of my job, but it is also something every adult endures — every self-aware adult — as was noted by my great hero, Samuel Johnson, the person I most quoted in the column: "He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction".
Only this can give him satisfaction"[ 31] (Jaspers' italics).
It gave him satisfaction, though nothing else did, to tell us the harrowing stories of his life.
Building in New York gives him satisfaction "because my father was there as a kid and he never really experienced me as an architect".
Teaching gave him satisfaction, along with a perch and a paycheck, but he was impatient with academic debates over "whether to drop a footnote or not drop a footnote," said Abner J. Mikva, a mentor whose own career has spanned Congress, the federal bench and the same law school.
It should not give him that satisfaction.
