Sentence examples for satisfying desires from inspiring English sources

Grushin astutely nails the psychology of the consumer and the riddle of commodity capitalism: "If you don't know what it is," one onlooker asks, "how do you know you need it?" The machine is already at work, satisfying desires the consumers didn't know they had.

If an applicant would do better in a post by satisfying desires and choices of customers that are in violation of equality of opportunity, then hiring the applicant on that basis would also violate equality of opportunity (Wertheimer 1983).

But other views remain remarkably consistent: particularly the identification of passions as a kind of motion internal to the body and related to the will, the description of happiness, or "felicity," as continual success in satisfying desires in the future (rather than the satisfaction itself), the important place given to "glory," and the (rather curious) opposition between passion and reason.

Lying about whether you were a virgin was the standard way you dealt with the double-bind of satisfying desires and the resultant guilt and shame instilled by a repressive Confucian ethos.

14 Nevertheless, he does not fully discard satisfying desires or preferences.

12 In order to specify these goals, he considers and then rejects both 'basic needs' and satisfying desires.

It is sometimes necessary that a process plant operates over a wide range while satisfying desired performance and stipulated constraints.

Socrates may be the master of foreplay, of arousing desire, and may to that extent be a master of the art of love, but when it comes to satisfying desire, he is a failure.

Based on the PP, controller tuning satisfying desired robust performance may be derived what is illustrated by tuning simple integral (I) controllers for the simplest uncertain 2-parameter plant model.

Park and Aral (2003) presented a multi-objective optimization approach to determine pumping rates and well locations to prevent saltwater intrusion, while satisfying desired extraction rates in coastal aquifers.

Is it perhaps that the world tends to cause satisfied beliefs (true beliefs), while desires tend to cause there to be a desire-satisfying (desire-fulfilling) world?