The word "gratify" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to describe when someone is pleased or happy with something, or has one of their desires fulfilled. Example sentence: I was gratified when I heard about my promotion.
But he will no longer be required to stay for months at a time as previously expected.The ruling split the trio of trial judges and excusal was granted to accommodate the "demanding functions of his office" and "not to gratify the dignity" of the president.
"Honouring debts is not only a constitutional but also a moral obligation," Alejandro Padilla, the governor, told investors earlier this month.Yet politically it may be tough to gratify bondholders if police, doctors and teachers go unpaid.
For ENI to get hold of more gas to feed into its European distribution network, Mr Scaroni says, it will have to gratify Gazprom's desire to gain direct "downstream" access to customers in Italy.
Such moves would gratify at least one former Tory home secretary Robert Peel, who founded modern policing in the 19th century.
Tort-reform legislation may temporarily gratify Congress's need to solve all of America's problems but it will provide little change in health-care costs.Brad Wilks Wexford PennsylvaniaSIR - To keep corporations accountable, nothing stirs the conscience quite like hefty damages awarded.
Why not play it again when the child goes to sleep at night?" Eventually the tot will pick up its little violin and a version of perhaps "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" will emerge to gratify the ears of the parents.
The crises that have hit so many Asian economies were caused at least in part by cronyism: projects were approved and finance was provided not because the market called for it, but just to gratify some minister's son-in-law.
This Britain is designed to gratify a British audience and beguile Americans; it is self-delusion masquerading as self-deprecation.Its main exponent is Richard Curtis, the "romcom" maestro behind "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and other saccharine distractions (though Woody Allen has tried to muscle in).
They proceeded to the Farnborough station (South-Western Railway), which is sixteen miles from Windsor, where the Royal railway carriage was in waiting.The various stations on the line between Farnborough and Southampton were decorated with flags and laurel, and the inhabitants of the adjacent country and villages were assembled in great numbers to show their loyalty, and gratify their curiosity.
That hard work is to be thrown away, at horrible cost to the environment, to gratify the new president's contempt for environmental concerns, to feed America's gluttonous appetite for energy, and to hell with the consequences.
Indeed, back in February 2008, Mr Siegel said there would be no recession that year and that profits, the stockmarket and the financial industry would all do well.Companies are well aware of investors' biases and strive to gratify them.
