| May I never laugh at their mistakes, or resort to ridicule when they displease me. |
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| The routine aim is to disparage and stigmatize activities or sentiments that displease policymakers in Washington. |
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| And when you're the king, you can banish the insiders who displease you and you can try to buy off the outsiders. |
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| I could also extend effective protection to upright officers who happened to displease powerful politicians. |
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| Schubb's gag order extends even to the outside activities of interviewees that displease him. |
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| The room had become deathly quiet, each crew member standing erectly as not to further displease their captain. |
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| It is trying to please the Americans, while trying at the same time not to displease a number of other countries. |
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| The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. |
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| If you are negative to your neighbour because he happens to practise a religion that you dislike, you will be negative to all else who displease you one way or another. |
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| You can still do those things even if they displease your parents. |
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| This will not displease Marc, as the qualities of his monohull in this point of sail are widely recognised. |
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| House members, too, would be loath to displease industry donors unless pushed by the leadership. |
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| Since Mr Howard has been in office for a decade, that comparison might not displease Mr Harper. |
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| Back in their parishes, these timid priests perform linguistic miracles to write sermons that displease neither the wolves nor the sheep. |
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| The difficulties and inconveniences don't displease him. 20 years ago, something clicked for Stéphane. |
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| This originality gives a pleasant balance to the dial but can displease those who do not want to put forward the brands they wear. |
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| First the waiter attended to Simon and Nathan, not because it was their turn, but because this proved to displease the director. |
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| But if pressed, she'll admit the new digital ones displease her. |
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| Otto returned to Rome in 997, reinstalled Gregory and made Rome his capital, which would displease the Germans and entangle him in fierce Roman factional politics. |
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| This will displease only hawks who pray for large-scale U.S. air attacks plus lots of U.S. aid and ground-level advice. |
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| Davies said he disregarded these orders but did not want to displease a man he respected so much. |
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| He finished 29th out of 72 runners in 65.34 which, since earlier he appeared to be struggling to clip his bumbag round his expanded waist, did not displease him. |
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| With careers and raises often hanging in the balance, few instructors can afford to displease the growing number of disengaged students making evaluation forms. |
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| Do the Conservatives want to avoid a debate that might displease our American neighbours? |
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| Would the CBC go off air so as not to displease people who do not speak their language? |
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| The reason they have done that, of course, is that they are afraid to stand up and say something in the House that would displease the government. |
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| What makes for social danger does not necessarily displease journalists and politicians who benefit from media time and the effects of announcements. |
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| The latter phrase is certain to displease Moscow, which wants Ukraine to be part of a customs union that would rival the EU and bolster Russia's influence. |
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| For example, an increased use of advertising by TV5 QC to provide more self-generated revenues could displease viewers, who like the channel because of its commercial-free content. |
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| They told me not to displease my husband and to do as he bids. |
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| Too often, people within an organization will know that plans have gone astray but will not say anything about it, either because they fear it would displease their superiors or they do not know whom to tell. |
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| For example, in a more open, marketdriven economy, the government can no longer deprive independent newspapers of newsprint if they should displease the ruling authorities. |
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| Worst of all, his final conclusion is predicated on some questionable probabilistic hand-waving that will displease mathematicians and laymen alike. |
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| These reforms will not displease to African countries. |
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| The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. |
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