Sentence examples for that would displease from inspiring English sources

We would not have dreamed of doing anything that would displease her.

Non-claimant Cambodia, coopted by China into becoming its client state, vetoes ASEAN statements on the SCS that would displease Beijing.

The agent describes various places where the woman & her husband could vacation, but in each case the woman finds something that would displease her husband.

Second: there is growing reliance on financial intimidation and economic incentives by governments to induce 'privately owned' media outlets to 'spontaneously' self-censor content that would displease the authorities.

Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, is a loyal lieutenant of the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and is unlikely to agree to any compromise that would displease him.

There was no such thing as a mid-Atlantic Quaker who couldn't recognize the man, not just for his unusual height, little short of seven feet, but for his moral intensity that was exceeded only by his haunting fear that he would displease God with inadequate efforts on behalf of black Americans.

Mr. Chocola and others said that the votes he cast in the past that would now displease the club simply demonstrate how much the issues of debt and deficit have increased in the public consciousness.

A close result will surely propel them into a mega-rematch and you get the impression that would not displease Jones - or, once the figures are laid out in front of him, Calzaghe.

None of the proposals in his address this week angered his backers, but a panel of internationally known economists commissioned by a former finance minister, Trevor Manuel, who now heads a powerful planning commission, last year recommended approaches that would probably displease trade unions and the black political and business elite.

He knew that he would displease Barnum by losing and he had his race at stake: "There was another thing about this match-dance that made Diamond want to win.

As I reported recently in The New Yorker, public-television officials abruptly withdrew financial support for the film amid growing worries that the project would displease David Koch, a billionaire industrialist and longtime public-television funder, whose political activism the film cast in harsh light.