"The chairman of the Fifa disciplinary committee was pleased to observe that Davor Suker, the Croatian Football Federation president, and Patrick Vieira engaged positively to work through the issue," added the world governing body.
"I was pleased to observe that police in the states I visited have a good understanding of the best practices of managing assemblies, and that they have the capacity to implement them, which they often do," he later added.
Assistant Judge Varrack Bassam seemed pleased to observe that he and the other judges could issue judgments without interference from the state.
MacMillan was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, the son of Andrew MacMillan, a former railway clerk, and his wife, Mary (nee McKelvie), in the same year (as he was often pleased to observe) that Charles Rennie Mackintosh died.
Towards the end of his life, when he was once again spending lengthy periods of time in Scotland, he was pleased to observe that his poem was less relevant than it had once been.
I may add that I am pleased to observe that the debate on tax havens initiated by the Washington summit has already begun to bear fruit, in particular in Europe, where several countries have recently announced their intention to introduce legislative changes in response to the expectations of the international community.
However, we were pleased to observe that the students were eager to contribute, and that their creativity and knowledge of biology were sufficient to fully engage with the program.
We were pleased to observe that the majority of the reagents showed comparable enrichment efficiency to 1 and that there was negligible background signal, as shown by the Myr control.
Thomas Gray in a 1768 letter gives over eight pages of instructions to Foulis Press about how to print his poems, but adds: "please to observe, that I am entirely unversed in the doctrine of stops, whoever therefore shall deign to correct them, will do me a friendly office".
Sarah Hale would probably be pleased to discover that these days, Americans celebrate virtually all their holidays indoors and that even Independence Day is generally observed around the safe confines of the patio grill.
("On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased," he has written).
