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Pleased in sentence

899 examples of Pleased in a sentence

John Snow would have been pleased.
So we are pleased that in 2013 diplomacy prevailed over threats of military intervention in Syria.
I am pleased to say that, on this front, BT is already taking a leading role, including by working with the British government on their Cyber Discovery program, a special initiative to attract schoolchildren into the cyber industry, and through our own apprenticeship programs.
Will they be pleased that London has stamped its collective foot, even though Cameron’s regulatory demands were not accepted?
Meanwhile, countries left out of European integration – such as Turkey – now seem pleased to have missed the boat, as they attempt to chart their own way forward (or, it often seems, backward) without external interests or responsibilities constraining their behavior.
Indeed, Yanukovych’s decision pleased many Russian speakers in Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions.
Barack Obama was plenty pleased with himself, with reason, but such was his dignity that no super-aide emerged during his presidency.
Some in Europe are pleased that the economy may have bottomed out.
Following his re-election, Obama’s first foreign visit was to Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia – a choice that cannot have pleased China, as all three are ASEAN members, while Myanmar was, until it began its democratic transition, a close Chinese ally.
But, I was also pleased from the point of view of a citizen, with a strong dislike of the herd mentality.
They will be pleased that Poland is standing up to Israel, Ukraine, and, indeed, the entire world.
Pleased with its success, Argentina began telling other countries to set up currency boards.
I couldn’t be more pleased for him – or for the profession.
When Stalin offered Hitler his friendship in the spring of 1939 – formally concluded that summer in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – Nazi aggression was assured of not being knifed in the back from the East and so was left with free hands to do as Hitler pleased in the West.
Two years later, near the very height of the bubbles in the equity and housing markets, he declared that, “We can be pleased that the economy is on a good and sustainable path.”
Shi Tao, in his jail cell, was undoubtedly pleased to learn that China is ruled by law, not by the Communist Party.
Valery Gergiev, the renowned conductor of the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Opera in St. Petersburg, was pleased by the President's direct interest in his new production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace; as was Nani Bregvadze, a legendary Georgian singer, whom Putin begged on his knees to sing for him after missing her concert at the Moscow Conservatory.
But contemporary accounts make clear that not all were pleased with Mecca’s management of the event.
We should be pleased about that – and perhaps the regulations that were introduced in response to the concerns expressed by environmental organizations played a role in that outcome.
For one thing, while the PiS was certainly pleased with Trump’s support for the Poland- and Croatia-led Three Seas Initiative for regional energy cooperation, if the project assumes a confrontational character, it could disrupt Poland’s relations with Western Europe.
Add to that America’s trade surplus with Egypt – which amounted to $2.4 billion in 2017 – and Trump is more than pleased with Sisi.
In that regard, I was pleased to hear food systems being mentioned during last month’s UN Climate Summit.
He warned of a civilizational threat facing the world, and thereby pleased the elites in attendance.
Yet had the Court sanctioned Johnson’s action, it would have left a gaping lacuna in the law, providing both this and any future government with the opportunity to dissolve Parliament any time it pleased, for as long as it pleased.
As the Washington Post’s editorial board pointed out, “The president has in essence conducted a shakedown, threatening a shutdown and then providing his blessing to a private business deal once it pleased him.”
Lagarde’s ECB ChecklistZURICH – The surprise nomination of Christine Lagarde to serve as the next president of the European Central Bank has pleased many observers, including me, and disappointed others.
Those who are pleased feel that Lagarde’s eight-year term as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund makes her uniquely qualified to forge agreement within the ECB’s Governing Council on many of the contentious issues it faces.
Although some people are pleased that the pandemic-induced halt to human activities has reduced pollution, the economic downturn is disastrous for millions of people.
Salvini could not be more pleased.
He further pleased the Trump administration by quietly banning the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from participating in building Japan’s 5G network.
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