How To Use Satisfactory In A Sentence

Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
_clear, fair_, and _satisfactory_, not in our being always ready to offer an explanation, whether satisfactory or not. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course.
They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in. Times, Sunday Times
Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.

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We might or might not be able to suggest a satisfactory solution.
Do moral arguments provide an unsatisfactory basis upon which to prohibit insider dealing?
I have this satisfactory stereotype in my mind's eye, all broken veins and Mittel Europa. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
This answer, you'll see by the enclosed news paper, was unanimously voted to be not satisfactory to the Town, and the next day, on Mr. Hutchinson's sending into the Town Meeting an answer of the same purport, both his and ours were voted to be daringly affrontive to the Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
Adding to this problem is increasing pressure on teachers to demonstrate that their students are performing at satisfactory levels in the standard subjects.
Without timely feedback from the relevant stakeholders and interested parties, it's next to impossible to find satisfactory solutions.
Mr. Masson's discussions of Milton's English are, it seems to me, for the most part unsatisfactory He occupies some ten pages, for example, with a history of the genitival form _its_, which adds nothing to our previous knowledge on the subject and which has no relation to Milton except for its bearing on the authorship of some verses attributed to him against the most overwhelming internal evidence to the contrary. Among My Books Second Series
Day after day I have obtained more satisfactory results, and now I look upon Apis mellifica as the greatest polychrest, next to Aconite, which we possess. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
Add to this Lilium auratum; eucryphias - ‘they flower late in August, which is very satisfactory’ - and hoheria, ‘a lovely little tree with the most beautiful honey-scented flowers’.
A satisfactory and lasting result in the water context cannot be achieved and should not be attempted by wholly divorcing consideration of the overriding conflict.
The cultural practices and fertilization practices recommended for wheat are satisfactory for triticale.
The sock we designed is extremely, compliant and elastic, making it possible for the electrodes to make satisfactory contact with the epicardium.
They were both pretty ordinary, lived normal lives, made satisfactory grades and were decent looking.
This crosslinguistic asymmetry has not received an entirely satisfactory explanation, despite the fact that resultative predication has been widely discussed from a variety of perspectives.
This measure would keep its creditors at bay until it can find a satisfactory solution to its troubles.
The building work had not been completed to a satisfactory standard.
There seems to be no satisfactory explanation.
What was sought by the application for security was an order that the defendants provide security for the costs of the appeal to the prothonotary in a form satisfactory to the prothonotary.
Antituberculous treatment combined with surgical debridement is mandatory to obtain satisfactory results with therapy.
For those individuals committed to a daily roughage allotment, the Manchester cobb salad is a more-than-satisfactory dish.
The aircraft's behavior was satisfactory on its first test flight.
Normal turns may be made with the use of ailerons alone and satisfactory turns may be made with rudders alone, although yaw developed may be unpleasant to passengers.
When Arthur Young wished to ascertain the relative proportions of cultivated and uncultivated land in France, he cut up a map of the country, and weighed them one against the other; but the platometer would have helped him to a more satisfactory conclusion. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852
We may let in cripples, say a man who has lost an arm, on condition that he give satisfactory evidence that he has an occupation or an art, and is not likely to become a public charge. Civic Responsibility and the Increase of Immigration
But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Today was highly satisfactory on both those counts. The Sun
The dispute was brought to a satisfactory termination.
That is so, in the same way that if after a verdict of guilty an appellate court concludes that the conviction is unsafe and unsatisfactory it quashes the jury's verdict.
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In the meantime it is sufficient to note that the position where the rules are barely enforced at all is far from satisfactory.
As noted above, creationists do not have a really satisfactory explanation for the increasing modernness of fossils.
Test team, but an exciting climax to the story ought not to overshadow some of the less satisfactory elements of the chapters that have preceded it. Times, Sunday Times
The steel and the heat treatment process of fine heavy load drift was determined by means of production tests. And the satisfactory result was obtained.
Their belief that this was a satisfactory outcome filled me with horror. Times, Sunday Times
Their belief that this was a satisfactory outcome filled me with horror. Times, Sunday Times
Payment shield's attempts at explaining the delay were unsatisfactory. Times, Sunday Times
His answer was essentially that the discovery of a species of which individual members had zero chance of survival would be a satisfactory falsifier of natural selection. Demarcation as Politics
The law says your used car must be of satisfactory quality, as described and reasonably fit for its purpose.
This may be satisfactory as long as you are content to bury your dead in shallow pits inserted into the desert sands.
This jibes with research showing that women are physiologically and emotionally more sensitive to unsatisfactory relationships.
Results were extremely satisfactory. Times, Sunday Times
Until results of the biological test are satisfactory, the sterilizer should be quarantined.
The harder parts gave a much more satisfactory finish with clean shiny cutter marks even in the interlocking grain.
Hypsicles relates that his father and Basilides studied a treatise by Apollonius on a dodecahedron and an icosahedron in the same sphere and decided that Apollonius's treatment was not satisfactory.
I think we should think of leaving the Convention if we can't get a satisfactory arrangement. Times, Sunday Times
Wasn't the point the SUGGESTION that women should "experimentally" try having sex although they may not be torn up with desire at the time?. .to see if the results were satisfactory. Newmatilda.com - Comments
But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. Daniel Deronda
Such interest, however, does not provide a morally satisfactory justification for violently repressing the Pullman strike.
The treatment is necessarily operative; cystic tumours may be tapped and injected with iodine, but the more satisfactory procedure, both with the solid and cystic forms, is to incise freely the overlying thyreoid tissue and enucleate the tumour. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Neither method is entirely satisfactory since apparently homologous muscles may change their sites of attachment during evolution and alter their functions.
We are not trying to box anybody in, we are trying to find a satisfactory way forward.
It will come as no surprise to those who view Mr. Speaker Martin as incompetent, chippy and partial to the Government to discover that he is at the heart, yet again, of an effort to conceal from the public gaze something which appears to be unsatisfactory and discreditable about the conduct of the democratic affairs of the House and therefore the nation. Archive 2007-10-28
We need to ensure that there are enough doctors on duty at all sites to comply with the law and guarantee that caseloads are such that training and supervision of junior doctors will be satisfactory.
This is unsatisfactory as my urgent issues remain unanswered.
He had been prepared to cancel an engagement at London's Victoria and Albert Museum if a satisfactory outcome was reached.
Though no great penwoman she sends satisfactory reports.
A wholly unsatisfactory first half was followed by a much better second. The Sun
The handling of the Regensburg address and of the recent lifting of the excommunication from the SSPX bishops was unsatisfactory. Pope Benedict XVI, the ecclesiastically incorrect" pontiff
Where a device or software has lawful uses, it would obviously be unsatisfactory to ban its sale.
Of the methods of sampling which avoid melting the bars, that known as sawing is the only one which is thoroughly satisfactory. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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The various sections of the report fail to cohere into a satisfactory whole.
Competition is keen and candidates must offer a minimum of an upper second class honours degree together with evidence of satisfactory financial arrangements.
But several areas, notably nuclear magnetic resonance, are less satisfactory.
The satisfactory color match between digital proofing and simulative proofing can be achieved by using this model to analyze and modify the color reproduction of map digital proofing.
Despite initial reservations, they also played a major part in devising a satisfactory structure within which West Germany could be rearmed, and included in NATO in 1955.
It need not be the optimal strategy in any future; it will, however, yield satisfactory outcomes in both easy-to-envision futures and hard-to-anticipate contingencies.
The lights for the ends of the house may be "butted," that is, placed edge to edge, if you happen to strike good edges, but as a general thing, it will be more satisfactory to lap them a little. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
Nevertheless a mixture containing coarse sand and bulb fibre or peat moss should be quite satisfactory.
Half of the 47 lessons observed were deemed unsatisfactory or poor and some teachers were found to have low expectations of pupils, giving them undemanding tasks such as colouring in.
She stared levelly at me, demanding a satisfactory answer.
Under the Sale of Goods Act retailers must sell goods that are of a satisfactory quality, are accurately described on the packaging and are fit for their purpose.
The facts of what we call gravitation are obvious, and any attempt to disregard them would result in disaster, yet no satisfactory explanation of gravitation has yet been discovered: many theories have been suggested, but no theory has yet been proved to be true. Hormones and Heredity
Lurid and Eridsen used a sodium acetate buffer with some samples, but could not obtain satisfactory results.
Nevertheless some of the patients with an intact pouch have had a relatively satisfactory short term outcome.
We must now change gear somewhat, and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations.
As we have mentioned, the other consistent proposal, at the nonrelativistic level, of a conceptually satisfactory solution of the macro-objectification problem is represented by the Collapse Theories which are the subject of these pages. Collapse Theories
An unsatisfactory version of it appeared in 1928, without notes and edited by a descendant who "softened Cresswell's opinions and actions," according to historians Harold B. Gill Jr. and George M. Curtis III, who give us Cresswell in decidedly unsoftened form, complete with the improvisational spelling and punctuation of the time. Revolution Road Trip
Nevertheless, the pouch operation failed in only three patients, the other seven having satisfactory functional results.
Where other levels of work are being done they will be given up as soon as satisfactory alternative arrangements can be made.
The company has satisfactory title to all assets and there are no liens or encumbrances on the company's assets, except for those that are disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.
If the government would order the Capitania – General of Caracas to be carefully examined during a series of years by men of science, well versed in geognosy and chemistry, the most satisfactory results might be expected. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
This term is pure A. - Saxon, _mæth_, the mowing; the former word _fog_, and _eddish_ also, are to be found in dictionaries, but their derivation is not satisfactory. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
You have not produced satisfactory evidence of your identity, nationality or lawful basis to be in the United Kingdom.
Opposed by Chief Coiner Franklin Peale and Mint Director Robert Patterson, Longacre produced double eagle patterns and die trials in 1849, none of which were deemed satisfactory. Liberty Head Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1849-1866 : Coin Guide
If affordable, car owners should have their own officially licensed emission test devices to ensure against possible police accusations of unsatisfactory results.
What seemed a satisfactory temporary arrangement now looks deeply bedded in. Times, Sunday Times
The result of his first experiment seemed highly satisfactory to him, and he determined to go on and make things lively all round. Three Men in a Boat
This, though a more realistic standard of judgement, was also not entirely satisfactory.
They did various brain scans and heart scans which proved satisfactory. The Sun
If the glutin is provided to prevent birds consuming the kernels, then the object is perfectly served; otherwise no very satisfactory reason is apparent why the tree should be invested with the means of destroying even humble forms of life. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
One of the chief means by which the drainage would be improved would be by the development of a more satisfactory means of disposing of sewage.
The deposit earns interest and is generally refundable once you establish a satisfactory credit history.
In fact, Haldane gives two examples where the evolutionary rates accord with his calculations average rate of speciation in the carnivora, and mammalia on page 522, his conclusion: “the agreement with the theory developed here is satisfactory”. Haldane's non-dilemma - The Panda's Thumb
Without the word, we are left with far less satisfactory means of protest.
A field effect transistor utilizes an oxide film to obtain satisfactory performance characteristics and ease of manufacture.
A life endured in total immobility is, though conceivable, wholly unsatisfactory.
Moat patients of supinator syndrome often get satisfactory effects after conservation treatment, and the ones who are failed can get the improvement from surgical treatment timely.
In the north of England they have discovered holes in stone walls as satisfactory nesting places. Times, Sunday Times
For those individuals committed to a daily roughage allotment, the Manchester cobb salad is a more-than-satisfactory dish.
I resent your implication that my work is unsatisfactory.
If affordable, car owners should have their own officially licensed emission test devices to ensure against possible police accusations of unsatisfactory results.
The aircraft's behavior was satisfactory on its first test flight.
These protocols provide satisfactory early to intermediate-term allograft survival, and constitute an important advance in transplantation. Naturejobs - All Jobs
Your conduct leaves a lot to be desired , ie is extremely unsatisfactory.
Another satisfactory method is to broadcast the seed followed by a shallow disking or harrowing and cultipacking.
Against these general considerations, the justice of which no one can dispute, one argument is adduced, which is regarded as furnishing a satisfactory demonstration from the fact. The Critique of Pure Reason
They demand a refund on unsatisfactory goods.
This is a partial answer, satisfactory to explain my own suffering.
The experimental results indicate that the present OLM system is capable of identifying both the location and magnitude of load with a high precision and has the satisfactory fault-tolerance.
The results of their follow-up medical check-ups in January and March are satisfactory.
After consistent, continuous research he successfully formulated a principle to describe the nature of catalysis which is satisfactory for the present state of knowledge, namely that catalytic action consists in the modification, by the acting substance, the catalyst, of the rate at which a chemical reaction occurs, without that substance itself being part of the end-products formed. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 - Presentation Speech
Her condition after the operation was described as 'satisfactory'.
Our densely-crowded slums, the far too large percentage of unemployed, the gigantic revenues which are expended by all classes of society in intoxicating drink, the huge crowds which throng to the places of public amusement to watch our matches, simply because they have something on the event -- I say these are not satisfactory features in connection with British social life today. Modern British Liberalism and the Empire
It is hoped an agreement will be reached that is satisfactory to most people but there will complaints and criticism.
He had been prepared to cancel an engagement at London's Victoria and Albert Museum if a satisfactory outcome was reached.
We are left by the master without a satisfactory answer to our question.
Again, neither the affirmative nor the negative answer is really satisfactory.
I hefted it by the barrel, finding the weight somewhat reassuring: at least it'd make a satisfactory club.
Then, if the general economic conclusions are considered unsatisfactory, a fiscal adjustment can be considered.
To accommodate that change, it also means a knock-out, rather than round-robin format, which is never exactly satisfactory.
A third disability lay in her constitution: Sparta had no satisfactory apparatus for decision-making and the formulation of strategy.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm
This was just another flaw in a deeply unsatisfactory experiment. Times, Sunday Times
The proportions of gum and water to be added to a fixed oil, in order to produce a satisfactory emulsion, will vary according to the oil used.
The text is a decent size; leading satisfactory; and it's longish - nearly 400 pages - but not too long.
Step Into Liquid is a surfing documentary that offers a satisfactory amount of thrills within a tsunami of platitudes and hyperbole.
As last season stuttered to its unsatisfactory end, Leicester seemed to be a symbol of changing times. Times, Sunday Times
If we do not get a satisfactory response from you by 15th September 2002, we shall be constrained to launch a nation-wide satyagraha.
It was a thoroughly unsatisfactory way to concede the three points but entirely in keeping with a game that never threatened to catch fire.
Tiahuana as perfectly satisfactory; but on the other I think there is reason in the objection raised by my Lord Huanacocha that the aspirant is a white man. Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
gasohol" and can also be blended to give satisfactory performance in machinery on the farm. Chapter 9
This is not a terribly satisfactory outcome. Times, Sunday Times
The shagbark is a slower growing tree than the pecan, but when properly cultivated shows a very satisfactory growth. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911
The Savoyard rulers never managed to find a satisfactory compromise between these different demands.
The simulation results show that: for a class of MIMO uncertain bilinear system with unmodeled dynamics, it can not obtain satisfactory control results only by using adaptive decoupling control law.
All in all it's been a boring, unsatisfactory day and, at the end of it, I'm not in the least reluctant to apply head to pillow.
There were very few there who knew what "tete" meant, but the poem was very satisfactory, nevertheless. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Moat patients of supinator syndrome often get satisfactory effects after conservation treatment, and the ones who are failed can get the improvement from surgical treatment timely.
It has been applied to the determination of clove oil and essential balm with satisfactory results.
User's attitudes also had to be examined in order to assess whether the approximations in the animation were satisfactory.
It is very satisfactory to be able to state that the torpedoes have been removed and that six of our gunboats are at the present time lying off the Foreign and Colonial News
Their inadequacy apart, this is totally unsatisfactory as it takes several minutes to cross from one platform to the other.
Any method of heating -- open fireplace, stove, hot air, furnace, hot water, or steam -- which will keep a room _with the windows open_ comfortably warm in cold weather is satisfactory and healthful. A Handbook of Health
According to Chesney, the Military Board and its system of control was so unsatisfactory that he began to plan a replacement for it on his arrival in India in 1850, whilst a very junior subaltern.
This should have been a satisfactory outcome. Times, Sunday Times
The Crown in that case submitted that the confessions were rightly admitted and that the convictions were safe and satisfactory.
The smoothing recipe described below generally gives satisfactory results and involves only a limited amount of computational effort.
If the rivet is too short, there is not enough material to form a satisfactory blind side (shop-formed) head.
But it is much more satisfactory to angle the basic release to suit the readership or audiences of the various media groups.
My morning routine consisted of a somewhat less satisfactory wander round the golf course paths. Times, Sunday Times
There seems to be no satisfactory solution to this problem. Times, Sunday Times
His answers were not satisfactory, and it appeared that he may well have been referring, not to the hazard lights, but to an internal warning light telling him that there was an open or insecure door.
I, however, gave him no satisfactory answer, being apprehensive that, if I unbosomed myself, I should become as much an object of horror to him as I had long been to myself. Lavengro
Payment shield's attempts at explaining the delay were unsatisfactory. Times, Sunday Times
We are left with an unsatisfactory situation. Times, Sunday Times
The origin of their name is involved in great difficulties, but the most satisfactory conjecture is that the Sadducees or Zadokites were originally identical with the sons of Zadok, and constituted what may be termed a kind of sacerdotal aristocracy, this Zadok being the priest who declared in favor of Solomon when Abiathar took the part of Adonijah. Smith's Bible Dictionary
Propitiatory, expiatory, remissory, or satisfactory, for they signify all one thing in effect, and is nothing else but a thing whereby to obtain remission of sins, and to have salvation. Sermons on the Card
Having broken up with a long-term girlfriend, he embarked upon a series of unsatisfactory relationships.
At the end of the play he praisingly accepts the role of Providence in his life, as having provided a more satisfactory answer to his dilemmas than he could have devised for himself. Shakespeare
Hopefully a satisfactory solution can be reached without much blood letting.
Godard was lost in Plato's cave from the outset, so he should not be surprised when this illusory ersatz world of film proves unsatisfactory - as a replacement for life, it is indeed a very unsatisfactory substitute.
Another steam car proved to be more satisfactory and was approved for use alongside horse power.
Ends of phrases were slightly ornamented, probably from quite early on, to provide satisfactory cadential suspensions; it is unlikely, at least in choral performance, that general ornamentation was introduced. Archive 2008-02-01
Gigot: So that kind of a stalemate, if the opposition takes--retakes half of the country, say, and some of the oil assets, and Gadhafi sits in Tripoli and maybe some other parts of the country--that outcome for you is unsatisfactory and would be seen by the world as a defeat for the United States? To the Shores of Tripoli
Not everyone finds this approach satisfactory, but the industries themselves have a strong business incentive to protect their systems from physical attacks and cyberattacks.
Helmut's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady.
The published drawings are not very satisfactory: and the two depicting the vessel do not match.
I cannot, however, think that botanical evidence of such a nature is sufficient to warrant a satisfactory reference of these Indian coal-fields to the same epoch as those of England or of Australia; in the first place the outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera, and much more so of fossil fragments: in the second place recent ferns are so widely distributed, that an inspection of the majority affords little clue to the region or locality they come from: and in the third place, considering the wide difference in latitude and longitude of Himalayan Journals — Complete
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
Both of these seem to me matters which need resolution, and may not be capable of satisfactory control by conditions.
Perhaps we'll stumble upon a mutually satisfactory solution for price later on.
Adequate though not ideal for earlier times, they are thoroughly unsatisfactory in an era of intense competition.
The most satisfactory mode of cultivation is that of a half-hardy annual. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
It was an unsatisfactory situation because a man can have the job in name but not in reality. Times, Sunday Times
If present trends continue it is possible long-term adequacy will also be satisfactory. Purchasing - Top Stories
Suddenly the Major declared his intention of putting the whole of Ross's establishment (including bicycle) on what he called a satisfactory basis by Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917
I remember suggesting that a satisfactory place for such a demonstration would be a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. Sheldon Drobny: God Damn America's Media: Rev. Wright's Comment On Hiroshima
I attach hereto draft documents which I hope will form a satisfactory agreement in respect of services on the above Estate.
The treasurer presented her financial report and it proved very satisfactory.
He had been prepared to cancel an engagement at London's Victoria and Albert Museum if a satisfactory outcome was reached.
In few areas, however, have satisfactory alternative agricultural uses for the land been found.
Her condition after the operation was described as 'satisfactory'.
For MacIntyre, moral questions can only be answered in a satisfactory way from within moral communities.
I grant that precaution is necessary in dealing with them," Joan agreed; "but I believe that more satisfactory results can be obtained by treating them with discreet kindness and gentleness. Chapter 7
It is not improbable that he was succeeded in the priorate by Julian about 1009, but there seems to be no satisfactory evidence that he was ever Bishop of Gubbio. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
But American officials argue that it is proving unsatisfactory because they cannot extradite terror suspects from Britain because they are protected by human rights laws. Times, Sunday Times
an unsatisfactory truncated conversation
If one iota is wanting in the balance of any of these three factors, let her cast her love aside as a spurious article – she will love again; but if the investigation is satisfactory, let her hold it fast, and let nothing take it from her. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
Then Zhang Yingying, the minister of technology part, made a good summary She reviewed the past and prospected the club's braw foreground, drew a satisfactory full stop for this pageant.
The new technology was satisfactory under test conditions but was by no means uniformly beneficial. Science, Technology, and Social Change
It is a wholly unsatisfactory situation and requires urgent action. Times, Sunday Times
Both are brief and although the criticisms of Hegel are clearly intelligible, the statements constituting the “new philosophy” are often rhetorical and aphoristic, which is one of the reasons they are often judged to be unsatisfactory as philosophy. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
This should have been a satisfactory outcome. Times, Sunday Times
The most satisfactory solution is to persuade a friend to call in and look after them while you're away. Times, Sunday Times

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