It was much more satisfactory to smile gently at him, making a visible effort not to roll my eyes, when he asked where we kept the spatulas.
On viewing their magnificence one cannot help but think that never has mankind arrived at a more satisfactory solution to the problem of decorating a church wall.
Navy researchers admitted that human test subjects would be "more satisfactory than animals, " but they worried about the public-relations aspect of using people, so all were turned down.
It was the final moment of danger - but the applause that rang out at the final whistle emphasised this was an outcome that was more satisfactory for Burnley than Arsenal.
It also features strategic arms control objectives which if incorporated into a U.S.-Soviet treaty would result in a more satisfactory strategic balance than that likely to arise under the START treaty currently being pursued.
To be honest, if Facebook can manage 50% revenue growth for any significant period from here out, that achievement would be extraordinary, be more than satisfactory to build one of the most valuable businesses on earth (more so than they are already one of those), and is probably a high-end scenario unless the company develops entirely new lines of business.
The U.S. administration repeatedly spoke about the more than satisfactory support it was receiving from Pakistan in battling the Taliban.
Beaten 7-0 over two legs in the semifinals of this year's competition by the eventual winners, Barcelona can at least reflect on a more than satisfactory league campaign.
But inspectors said in some areas the service could do better, saying practice was more often satisfactory than good, and that young people were not sufficiently challenged to do better.
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They have determined that assets under management are more important than satisfactory results to investors.
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He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
Occasionally, a satisfactory result is more important than an election that meets technical standards of fairness.
If the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional the plan for universal coverage through private insurance, the U.S. will continue to evolve toward a government-led system -- albeit one much more expensive, and much less satisfactory, than the government systems of other advanced democracies.
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In the modern era, pneumonectomies have traditionally been performed to treat lung cancer when other more conservative procedures cannot achieve comparable or satisfactory results.
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In fact, for some benchmarks deemed satisfactory there were warnings that more improvement was needed, or that progress was being made only with substantial assistance from U.S. forces.
But sometimes the answers and the words we use to phrase them with are less than satisfactory and in many cases hurt your business more than you initially think they will.
Even in Iraq, where conditions are much more favourable, sustained bombing has yet to produce an outcome satisfactory to the West.
We are prepared to invest the time and resources necessary to complete a transaction along an expedited timeline, and we would contemplate providing drafts of a definitive transaction agreement (which will include financing commitment letters), along with our more detailed proposal as soon as possible following the completion of satisfactory due diligence.
It is highly satisfactory to beneficiaries, and it is under budget, running more than 40 percent below its initial estimates.
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Slightly more than half told the Coller Capital survey last summer that a majority of GPs were making a satisfactory effort to adopt the ILPA guidelines for financial terms.
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If anything, the fact that his support was not more conditional on Yeltsin's actual performance on democratic and free market reform will probably contribute to a less satisfactory turn of events down the road.
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