Sentence examples for when gratifying from inspiring English sources

The problem for Johnson is that he has several times himself termed the charge a tax, including as recently as March when gratifying Tory members of the London Assembly by publicly ruling out any extension of congestion charging to outer London town centres.

Fifteen or twenty years ago, when writers like David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen argued, in the pages of The Review of Contemporary Fiction and in this magazine, about how novels should be written, they discussed difficulty versus pleasure, and when to gratify or foil readers' desires.

When you work in the corporate world, it's not always gratifying when you meet the challenges set in front of you.

It is gratifying when studies support the instincts of parents: that greater harm from parental absence occurs not when children are small and cuddly, but when they are large and surly ("Schoolchildren of Welfare Parents," by Richard Rothstein, Lessons column, June 5).

Making new words is fun, and it's gratifying when they catch on with others.

It's always gratifying when people come up and say how much they enjoy my work.

It is immensely gratifying when this new confidence transfers to their other subjects.

It really is terribly gratifying when science proves what one has been insisting is true for ages.

Joseph Margulies, one of Abu Zubaydah's American lawyers, said: "It's always gratifying when a court speaks truth to power.

It's also gratifying when people who were in Baghdad the same time I was there come up to me and tell me what I got right and what I got wrong.

"It's really gratifying when someone comes up to me and I can tell they're going to say, 'I was a Sassy reader,' or 'I was a Jane reader,' " she said.