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give satisfaction
verb as in apologize
verb as in do
verb as in recompense
Strong matches
Example Sentences
He promised to facilitate a meeting between companies and unions “to give satisfaction to Italian railway workers, without, however, stranding hundreds of thousands of Italians who bear no blame.”
"But I was saddened. Now, the police... they said to me, 'Cardinal Dolan, you need to come out, look at the graffiti and hold a press conference.' And I said, 'You know what? I don't like to give attention and give satisfaction to the misguided people that would do something like this. I don't want to show people that it got to me, even though it did. I'll let it speak for itself.' And it did. We received volumes of expressions of solidarity."
Historian Jeremiah Garsha has found a letter Byatt sent just three days after the end of the war in November 1918, which lobbied to have the skull returned from Germany, saying it would give "satisfaction" to the Wahehe people, offering "tangible proof in the eyes of the natives that German power has been completely broken".
"Canelo beating Amir Khan on Saturday would give satisfaction to the Mexican fans."
"In the New Year, in order to give satisfaction to the majority of the people, we will continue to try to release political prisoners, political activists, and students facing trials related to politics," Htin Kyaw said in a nationally televised address to mark the start of the Buddhist new year.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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