How To Use Ratify In A Sentence

Being with my patient over an 18 month period was not always easy, or gratifying.
Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
I continue to object to being read as someone who wants to "stratify" the Gospel of Thomas. The Forbidden Gospels
The European Union and Japan ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change, binding themselves to cut greenhouse-gas emissions - by eight per cent from 1990 levels by 2008-12 in Europe, and by six per cent in Japan.
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863

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Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers. Times, Sunday Times
Doing so would smash parliament's claim to ratify or reject treaties.
As soon as we encounter rules, it seems to be human nature to start to get very clever about finding ways to gratify our desires even within the parameters of the rules.
The most gratifying thing about starting this blog has been the opportunity to get acquainted with so many smart and charming people.
We stratify by income anyway (via housing costs), and get the same thing you claim not to like. Matthew Yglesias » School Competition
Method of De of account limitation check and ratify is differ send.
There are about 220 students following the courses and the epistolary relationship with the students is both edifying and gratifying.
The implication of this is that the INEC chairman might have some sympathy for the PDP since both his appointor and majority of members of the ratifying body are PDP members. Undefined
As a young man, St. Augustine was well practiced in gratifying the desires of his fallen nature.
Fourth, the original understanding of the Constitution by the public and the men who voted to ratify is clear that Constitution was to be secular, promote tolerance, and granted no powers in matters of religion. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Judge Strikes Down Statute Providing for National Day of Prayer
Is there anything more gratifying than accepting a wrongdoer's humble apologies with Queenly dignity and good nature? Times, Sunday Times
It is gratifying to learn that you were a revolutionary in your youth. Times, Sunday Times
On the grounds of Disneyland itself, the food is the instantly gratifying kind - loaded with fat, like hot dogs, potato chips and deep-fried chimichangas, or sugar, like the ubiquitous soda pop and ice cream treats.
The reality of this peril is apparent in the failure of the United States and Russia, until now, to ratify either the START 2 agreement or the Chemical Pugwash Conferences - Nobel Lecture
Those scruples and that refinement against which he warned her, she herself thought might be overstrained, and to gratify unnecessary punctilio, the short period of existence be rendered causelessly unhappy. Cecilia
If you read this article, you'd assume that Russia was on the verge of ratifying the Kyoto protocol.
And the people who are back here now are mostly eally determined to make this work, despite the obstactles, a certain gratifying stubborness at work. Hip Hip Hooray!
Housing associations are to do a U-turn and ratify a new deal that allows tenants to buy their homes at a discount. Times, Sunday Times
As a gratifyingly sheepish look passed over my hairdresser's face, I basked in my brief moment of triumph.
But when the smoke cleared, the government got enough votes to ratify the deal. The Sun
It was gratifying that people in the district were appreciative of the services that Pride Zambia was providing and that they were playing their part by repaying the loans.
As Ashley had prophesied hell to pay since the legislature to ratify the amendment.
The gratifying aspect of this was that each position was contested and resulted in the following being elected.
I had thought it should apay [gratify] her to know the same; but my words had the contrariwise effect, for she looked more frightened than afore. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
Not only a commanding physical presence, the former WWE wrestling champion brings a gratifying level of depth and humanity to the role first seen on the screen in 1973.
What consoles gratifyingly , the government Department responsible for the work will have established even more, the consummation emergency communication mechanism to propose the agenda.
It's character-building, and gratifyingly cheap. Times, Sunday Times
However, Singh has also long been seen as an enfant terrible, an incorrigible roué. There is something gratifying about such an image, and I don't particularly judge him for cultivating it.
In the end, the reversal of fantasy and reality propels the narrative mystery of Mulholland Drive, and sustains the central character's obsessive - but gratifying - worldview.
It's not true, but it was gratifying to hear it said like that. The Times Literary Supplement
It was while the shadow of this calamity, unparalleled since the beginning of British rule in India, was over the land that the most gorgeous "durbar" ever held in India was ordered for the purpose of gratifying a whim of Queen Victoria, who had induced Round the World
The US doesn’t ratify a treaty but since a court whose jurisdiction the US also does not recognize says that the failure to ratify is irrelevant, all backed up by more cases from, of course, said court, then the international law binds theUS! The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
In Sydney, ice sculptures of kangaroos and koalas melted during a protest by green groups over Australia's refusal to ratify the pact.
This was unfamiliar music to them, and to show such a spontaneous reaction was very gratifying.
Russia has yet to ratify the treaty. Times, Sunday Times
Shall do a courtesy to our wrath] _To do a courtesy_ is to gratify, to comply with. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
The support was considerable and very gratifying.
The original objective of the Federalist Papers was to convince New Yorkers to elect to their state ratifying convention delegates who would support the Constitution.
The failure to ratify the New Deal, as well as other important aspects of the contemporary constitutional system, through amendments has created an ongoing issue within American constitutionalism. Balkinization
Both houses must pass an amendment by a two-thirds margin and three-fourths of the states then must ratify it.
In the end, however, he found a most gratifying resolution.
I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity.
The initial categories were created by stratifying lesions into quartiles according to size.
In other news, it's oddly gratifying to take a Belle and Sebastian CD out of your changer and put in Poison's greatest hits, but that's a story for another time…
The Federal Government will not ratify the protocol until the economic impact of doing so is fully assessed.
He only gave his consent in order to gratify her wishes.
The gospel of Christ is not accommodated to the fain fancies and lusts of men, to gratify their appetites and passions; but, on the contrary, it was designed for the mortifying of their corrupt affections, and delivering them from the power of fancy, that they might be brought under the power of faith. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Her expression would ratify the truth of my words. Shortcut Man
Washington particularly regretted what he called the “extreme malapropos” effect on Virginia, where the bad news from New Hampshire arrived in March just as delegates to the state ratifying convention were being chosen. Ratification
Lord Acton's erroneous idea, that Ridolfi was employed by Pius V to obtain Elizabeth's assassination, seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of Gabutio's Latin Life of St. Pius in the Bollandists Cecil eventually discovered the intrigue; Norfolk was beheaded, 2 June, 1572, and the Puritans clamoured for Mary's blood, but in this particular Elizabeth would not gratify them. Mary Queen of Scots
As we digest the probability that the House of Commons will vote to ratify the EU Constitution without a single shred of democratic legitimacy, even the Guardian, which can normally be relied upon to peddle the Party Line in as psittacine a manner as it can manage, has felt moved to object to the present undemocratic outrage being perpetrated by Labour. Archive 2008-01-20
If you read this article, you'd assume that Russia was on the verge of ratifying the Kyoto protocol.
Both houses must approve by two-thirds margins, and 38 state legislatures must ratify such fundamental changes.
Rather than risk a second referendum, the government and rebels decided to ratify the new deal in Congress. Times, Sunday Times
He would have struggled to ratify a treaty without a referendum, but he would have struggled to keep his Government together if he had held one. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than risk a second referendum, the government and rebels decided to ratify the new deal in Congress. Times, Sunday Times
In the series, the southerners are portrayed as wussy appeasers and the South Carolina representative, Edward Rutledge, is especially played as a priss which is somehow gratifying after campaigns in which the South is portrayed as the home of martial and American values. Matt Cooper: John Adams: Good for McCain -- and Kerry, Dukakis
But how refreshing, and gratifying, to hear it treated in loftier fashion. Muti and Chicago Rekindle the Flame
the performance was at a gratifyingly high level
Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in despite of the sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he had never seen the young fellow since the first morning. Waverley
Taking advantage of whatever techniques were already available, Porter and I worked out enough improvements in microtomy and tissue fixation to obtain preparations which, at least for a while, appeared satisfactory and gratifying. George E. Palade - Autobiography
And it's doubtful that decisions to ratify international covenants on the subject involve much public consideration either.
It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
We believe that argument to be absurd and fallacious, and hope that defenders of liberty will recognise that it is exactly this kind of panic-stricken measure that will most gratify the killers.
He adopted their methodological starting point, the assumption that rational actors ‘seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.’
Lucullus, Catulus, and Hortensius, to Cato and Brutus, he finally adopted the suggestion of Atticus to gratify Varro by giving him a share in the dialogue together with Atticus and himself (_ad Att. _ xiii. 13, 1, 'commotus tuis litteris, quod ad me de Varrone scripseras, totam Academiam ab hominibus nobilissimis abstuli transtulique ad nostrum sodalem et ex duobus libris contuli in quattuor'). The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
It is gratifying too that the link between school and university is strengthening. Times, Sunday Times
With a razor-thin Senate majority, Allin says the Democrats might face Republican opposition in ratifying the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. World Watches US Election Results
I liked the challenge of suiting the garments to the women who wanted them, of making a fit, of gratifying harmless desire. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
My sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn.
Whilst thus the world will be whole and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example, to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character. V. Essays. Compensation. 1841
Few other paediatric illnesses are as gratifying to diagnose and as uniformly responsive to treatment.
I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every former will, testament, legacies, bequests and exaction by me in any way before named, willed or bequested in ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
Stratify teaching to be one to plant in lower individual - rization collective teaching form teaching tactics.
This is why the film is "apolitical" - it doesn't take a stance on the Iraq war, which means in practice that (in the absence of critique) it can only be read as ratifying the war (or, at least as ratifying the late-Bush-surge and Obama-post-surge versions of the war, if not the idiotic Cheneyism that got us involved in Iraq in the first place). Warren Ellis
The global outcome was analysed with logistic regression, with and without adjustment for the two stratifying factors.
Being offered several times, refusing politely, then at last "Maybe just one, they look soooo good!" was supposed to gratify the hostess into thinking that she really was such a good cook, she'd managed to overcome the ladylike appetite ( "I only exist on air") of the visitor, and the visitor maintains her rep for not being greedy. Mrissa: It gets early early here, too.
The parliaments of Australia and Indonesia have yet to ratify the treaty.
The third reason, inevitably, is the failure to ratify the constitutional treaty.
I have given my consent, intending to gratify her wishes in this respect only for a short while.
And who will ratify any coalition agreement? Times, Sunday Times
After I broke it off, I got involved in an incredibly unhealthy on-again off-again thing with my only neighbor that was so, so sexually gratifying specifically because it was unhealthy.
We believe that argument to be absurd and fallacious, and hope that defenders of liberty will recognise that it is exactly this kind of panic-stricken measure that will most gratify the killers.
A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, “Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards,” found that charter schools stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country. Matthew Yglesias » Obama is Succeeding
Yes; you will no doubt be astonished to hear that the plain "seedsman" at the town end, who sells you your roots and bulbs and seedlings, keeps in his pay a staff of plant-hunters -- men of botanical skill, who traverse the whole globe in search of new plants and flowers, that may gratify the heart and gladden the eyes of the lovers of floral beauty. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
And Italy is wondering if it was too hasty in ratifying it.
(26 May) was thought a fitting opportunity for asking for a further loan of £100,000 to enable her majesty to pay and "gratify" the seamen who had so gallantly warded off invasion and to refit the fleet. London and the Kingdom - Volume II
There was the sound of water lapping - a pool, a jacuzzi - the sight of a coffee shop; gratifying smells. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Method of De of account limitation check and ratify is differ send.
There is much, too, of his brother's marriage; and in a separate letter to the sisters there are individual acknowledgments of each article of the equipment, gratifying the donor by informing her that the 'cutaway' coat was actually to be worn that very evening at a dinner party at the Chief Justice's, and admiring the 'gambroon,' which turned out to be the material of the cassock, so much as to wish for a coat made of it for the islands. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
We don't need much inducement to eat, wash, beautify ourselves, or gratify our needs, but for many of us, honoring other people doesn't come easily.
Is it unwise for me to gratify a desire for beautiful things, which will be a constant joy to my friends and my children as they grow to appreciate them, as well as to myself, when it is done in so quiet and unostentatious a manner? The Splendid Spoils of Standard Oil
He said a state has to ratify and finally deposit instruments of ratification to the institution specified in the treaty, following signing or declaring accession to a treaty.
Gratifying for activists, but Murray found herself disengaged from the discussion, including the very large Facebook group that formed, Fair Copyright for Canada. Archive 2009-04-01
These are the Commission as a dynamic technocracy, with the Council as the body required to ratify Commission action.
Anyone who abuses young girls in order to gratify their sexual desires can and must expect custodial sentences to mark the public abhorrence of this type of behaviour.
It might seem non-egalitarian, but consider that for the past two years we've been trying to ratify the succession of one of two political dynasties - neither of whose scions has had a non-political aspiration since birth.
To gratify my curiosity, do tell me what it is.
So far, most polling (no matter how it is spun by the financial press) shows that support for ratifying is solid.
This may not always be easy but it is certainly very gratifying and you will emerge at the end as a more confident and self-assured person. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
Technically, as all 25 member states must ratify the treaty for it to take effect, it is dead.
Members of the corporate services board are expected to ratify the budget at a meeting later today.
Any sensible pro-European would ratify the deal. Times, Sunday Times
Both houses must pass an amendment by a two-thirds margin and three-fourths of the states then must ratify it.
If a treaty is a more grave thing (since it can entangle the country with European machinations) it stands to reason that ratifying should be subject to a large supermajority. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
We took a chance and we've won. It's very gratifying.
It was very gratifying to see his dark side unleashed for purposes other than butlery or pure rescue missions. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
He will ask the British government to ratify an international convention guaranteeing tribal ownership. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than risk a second referendum, the government and rebels decided to ratify the new deal in Congress. Times, Sunday Times
The roar of the crowd was gratifying as the ball soared through the hoop, upping the score to 90-59 in our favor.
This urged states to sign and ratify the convention and to make domestic legislation and administrative procedures compatible with it.
Under the Vienna Convention (also unratified, but recognized as codifying interpretive principles of customary international law), states that have signed a treaty are not to act so as to undermine it until it has been ratified or rejected by the ratifying body (i.e. unsigning is not contemplated). The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted
Economic cooperation to mutual benefit made gratifying progress and yielded concrete results.
Housing associations are to do a U-turn and ratify a new deal that allows tenants to buy their homes at a discount. Times, Sunday Times
Their victory over difficulties affords the most rational cause of triumph, and the attainment of new ideas leads to incalculable riches, such as gratify the glorious avarice of aspiring and comprehensive minds. The Borough
It was somehow gratifying to know that this brilliantly original writer had chosen to live in South Africa. The Times Literary Supplement
Thus, it may be that you would want to stratify by both faculty and gender or faculty and whether students are undergraduates or postgraduates.
It is gratifying for ambitious Asians to examine the FT's new masthead on the page opposite.
A straightforward trivia game with plenty of questions to challenge novices (was Dwayne Wade an All-American...in the '60s?) and gratify experts (did Sam Perkins play at UNC or Memphis?) plus bonuses and achievements to spur you through them, iQ gives you the motivation you need to memorize your NCAA arcanum and show your buds who's boss—or at least finally understand all the fuss about John Wooden.$1, available on iPhone Your iPhone's on Fire, Baby!
In addition to enriching our knowledge of the culinary art, we shall be doing our share of gratifying our gustatory lusts.
It was of these luxuries that Margaret was especially fond; and her grandmother, with an instinct that those tastes of Margaret's proved her indeed a lady -- and made it impossible that she should marry, or even think of marrying, "foolishly" -- had been most graciously generous in gratifying them. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another, -- though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting. Youth and the Bright Medusa
Any sensible pro-European would ratify the deal. Times, Sunday Times
We had a fire incident in late October in the early evening and the assistance we received from the public in extinguishing the flames using fire extinguishers at our building was gratifying.
He warned their entry to the EU depended on member states ratifying the accession treaties.
He is, without doubt, England's cricketer of the year and I expect Wisden will ratify this come the spring when it the venerable almanack selects its Five Cricketers of the Year. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved.
He would have struggled to ratify a treaty without a referendum, but he would have struggled to keep his Government together if he had held one. Times, Sunday Times
The linoleum in front of the washstand is very gratifying indeed, my lord, if you will excuse my mentioning it. Whose Body?
Hell not three weeks ago Mitt was running radio adverts denouncing the stem cell bill in terms gratifying to any witch doctor. The Chimes at Midnight
For my own mother, the baleful daughter of Tyndareus, hath cast me forth from her house to gratify her lord; for since she hath borne other children to Aegisthus she puts me and Orestes on one side at home. Electra
Whenever he came into a new territory, he established what he called his chamber of claims, a most convenient device, by which he inquired whether the conquered country or province had any dormant or disputed claimsany cause of complaintany unsettled demand upon any other state or provinceupon which he might wage war upon such state, thereby discover again ground for new devastation, and gratify his ambition by new acquisitions. IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
What is more calculated to gratify a carnal mind than a strong delusion leading one to think himself a Christian, and yet not disturbing his lusts?
This film is enjoyable and visually gratifying.
It appears that art as an activity contributes nothing to the upkeep of the individual; it rarely obtains for him a sufficiency of money for rent and food, and does nothing to gratify sexual requirements.
The US will not ratify the 2003 treaty. Times, Sunday Times
After the difficulties of birding in deep forest, these were gratifyingly co-operative creatures. Times, Sunday Times
If you are drawn into a commitment to how you will vote, you'll only be ratifying the corruption of the confirmation process.
All he saw in me was a way to gratify his greed and voracity.
Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
There was a fresh easterly breeze blowing when the double canoe -- or raft, as they agreed to term her -- cast off from alongside the _Mohawk_, and under its influence the craft, with one leeboard down, slid across the Javari at a speed that was as surprising as it was gratifying. In Search of El Dorado
Over 60 countries have yet to ratify the climate convention.
It is advisable also to interstratify the dung with dry soil, so as to absorb any liquid which may tend to escape from it, and it should also be covered with a well-beaten layer of earth, in order to exclude the rain. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
A failure to ratify by Slovakia would throw a spanner in the works, since the arrangement requires unanimous ratification. Times, Sunday Times
Another mother described herself as 'constantly upset', but making a Herculean effort to gratify her year 14-year-old daughter anyway. Susan Shapiro Barash: Our Daughters at Holiday Time
Cold and moist conditions are necessary in order to stratify and break the seeds' dormancy.
stratify seeds
In fact, fewer options automatically stratify such students further by funneling them into the Cal State University and California Community College systems. José Luis Santos: A Watershed Moment for the UC System
That local authorities seek to formalise such choices shows their curious understanding of democratic engagement, as complicating, regulating and ratifying simple day-to-day decisions.
Therefore, he lives each day at a time, gratifying whatever desires turn up.
The influence of punk is quite sweet and gratifying.
Your bumbling is particularly gratifying because times were tough before this happened. Times, Sunday Times
He knew exactly what would happen: Dervishton and Falkland would spend the entire ride to the Snaid trying to outjockey one another, which would gratify Caitlyn Hurst’s vanity to no end. The Laird Who Loved Me
The key to what makes this novel so gratifying is character. Rabid Read-Along: "The Shining" by Stephen King
Over 60 countries have yet to ratify the climate convention.
Journalism is short-term and gratifying in a fast way, and inherently interactive.
Technically, as all 25 member states must ratify the treaty for it to take effect, it is dead.
And who will ratify any coalition agreement? Times, Sunday Times
They will certainly stratify who gets what, when and how. Incoming AFL-CIO pres again draws the line on a public option
I will find joy in indulging the moods and gratifying the desires of all the poor who suffer. Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
One of the things that we find most gratifying is that everyone who hears about BillMonk immediately “gets it”; social money – informal debts between friends – has always been a thorn in everyone’s side. First mention in the press « Notes from the BillMonk
But seeing as you asked in such a gratifyingly timorous manner, I'll give you a three word clue: Topshop gift certificate. What should I get my 14-year-old niece for Christmas?
Its task was to ratify not only the annexation of the new territories, but the cession of Nice and Savoy, which had been decided by treaty on 24 March 1860 and endorsed, under the eyes of French troops, by plebiscite.
Emotionally, such an attack would doubtlessly be gratifying - fulfilling a general desire to ‘do something’ and a clamour for action rather than words.
So, whether a person is traveling for the first time or for the nth time, it is still best to keep in mind safety traveling tips so that the experience will be a gratifying one.
It is most gratifying for me to know that my work has been useful.
If the only reason not to ratify is to deny Obama a "victory" ... Digg.com: Top News
Your good marks gratify me very much.
We are beholden to those of our mothers who wanted to keep a beautiful home (no matter how much or how little money they had) and to Martha Stewart and also to Cheryl Mendelson (and her wonderful and very informative book, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House) to a new understanding that housekeeping is a gratifying and civilizing activity. January Organizing and Housecleaning
Trim, smiling, pretty girls, all looking rather like French maids in a play, happily plied their light agreeable tasks; and, in especial, the cheeks of poor Miller (who had stoutened gratifyingly) were observed to blossom like the rose. V. V.'s Eyes
In a rewardingly international week, this was as gratifying as anything. Times, Sunday Times
Their purpose is to encourage countries to ratify the Kyoto protocol on reducing carbon emissions.
But when the smoke cleared, the government got enough votes to ratify the deal. The Sun
Russia has yet to ratify the treaty. Times, Sunday Times
So when you've had so many ups and downs, it makes it all the more gratifying when something special like this happens. Times, Sunday Times
But these statistics, although gratifying, have proved also to be unsettling for many homebuyers. Times, Sunday Times
Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way.
Both houses must approve by two-thirds margins, and 38 state legislatures must ratify such fundamental changes.
We hope that the republics will be willing to ratify the treaty.
He would have struggled to ratify a treaty without a referendum, but he would have struggled to keep his Government together if he had held one. Times, Sunday Times
In a gratifyingly short time she demonstrated how allomorphism might be banished from the Haluk genome. Perseus Spur
Most gratifying of all is the price. Times, Sunday Times
His asymmetries make the kind of gratifying sense that symmetry makes in classical art.
Rather than risk a second referendum, the government and rebels decided to ratify the new deal in Congress. Times, Sunday Times
It has been gratifying to observe staff volunteering information on incidents involving medical devices, rather than simply trying to hide the event.
Nor does she depict adolescence as a period of mental instability, characterized by mercurial moods and impulsive, self-gratifying actions.
The outpouring of support that I have received in this effort has been a truly gratifying experience.
It's instantly gratifying and extremely addictive. Times, Sunday Times
How gratifying it is to be working with analogue, manual controls—to see the mechanics at work, rather than trust to invisible and incomprehensible quantum wizardry.
On the other hand, it would be gratifying to assume the disappearance indicates that those responsible for the current series have decided to acknowledge that though much separated the upper and lower classes in English society during the period covered, the classes by dint of living under the same roof were inevitably intertwined. David Finkle: First Nighter: Upstairs Downstairs Makes Sparkling PBS Return
Since we are able to diagnosticate with the utmost precision the various affections of the heart, and since the discovery of certain specific medicines which exert most beneficial effects, we are enabled to treat this class of maladies with the most gratifying results. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Let it be shown what this monstrous notion really meant, what herds of strange creatures and shoals even of vermin it would permit in England; and would England ratify the monstrosity, or the Independency consociated with it, even for twenty Cromwells, or ten Marston Moors? The Life of John Milton
Four courses of food so invigorating and so gratifying, and yet you leave feeling lighter than your lime semifreddo.
The US will not ratify the 2003 treaty. Times, Sunday Times
And my husband will be happy in the enjoyment of every expensive taste which a poor man call gratify, for the first time in his life. Little Novels

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