History has shown that competition between States seeking to satisfy energy needs can instigate conflict, particularly in regions where tensions already exist.

Due diligence is commonly defined as “diligence reasonably expected from, and ordinarily exercised by, a person who seeks to satisfy a legal requirement or to discharge an obligation”.

Importantly, States must, as a matter of priority, seek to satisfy core obligations and protect groups in society who are in a particularly vulnerable situation.

The fact that we subscribe exclusively to a focus on minimum needs, such as that presented in the MDGs, carries a high risk that in seeking to satisfy our consciences we limit the aspirations for social change.

It was good for information to circulate, but it seemed that, in seeking to satisfy important internal users, the Department was depriving itself of resources that would enable it to carry out its essential function, namely external communication.

The programme service provided by the association must reflect a particular social, cultural, religious or spiritual movement within society and must seek to satisfy current social, cultural, religious or spiritual needs.

The main directions of implementation of the Strategy are to improve the legal system and seek to satisfy, as effectively as possible, the special needs of the disabled by supplying them with technical aids; to asses and improve the quality of the currently available services by setting up local offices in individual counties; to ensure a more efficient use of state budget recourses.

Indeed, most of the thousands of people who streamed across the border were merely seeking to satisfy the basic needs of their families for food, medicine and fuel for survival and, for many, to satisfy the need for freedom of movement, even if for a short time, following months of imprisonment in a very small space in the Gaza Strip.

In so doing, it had been impressed by the scope and degree of complexity of the Commission's work on the draft legislative guide on insolvency law. It could not be otherwise, given the range of legitimate interests which an insolvency regime must seek to satisfy, the various methods which might be used to arrive at compromise formulas, and the deep differences between the legal traditions of various countries.

When a judgement creditor's attorney issues a restraining notice, he forbids, with the full force of the law, the transfer or use of the specified property until the underlying judgement it seeks to enforce is satisfied.