When the condition is not satisfied, we write.
"Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied," Zadie Smith wrote in her rules for writers.
The White House and the Federal Communications Commission say consumers should be free to unlock their phones once contracts are satisfied, Edward Wyatt writes in The New York Times.
"More is necessary to make out a claim that the statement of opinion was false than a quarrel with whether these standards have been satisfied," he wrote.
I'm still drawing my own comics everyday though, if I didn't have that I don't think I would be satisfied purely writing for others.
The US government's top development official, Raj Shah, head of the US agency for international development (USAid), warned last year that his agency was "no longer satisfied with writing big checks to big contractors and calling it development".
In 2011, USAid administrator Rajiv Shah warned that the aid industry "is full of incentives designed to prolong our efforts rather than reduce them or enable transitions" and said his agency would no longer be satisfied with "writing big cheques to big contractors and calling it development".
Don't miss "Suddenly This Overview," an installation of scores of small, unfired-clay sculptures whose subjects range from the Biblical to the cultural to the banal: the parting of the Red Sea, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones feeling satisfied after writing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," a wedge of cheese.
"I am satisfied," he wrote, "that when the Almighty wants me to do or not to do a particular thing, he finds a way of letting me know it".
"I shall never now be satisfied", Anne wrote to her sister Mary, "whether the child be true or false.
