She dashes from her refuge to please her father by saving the butter from the debris falling from the shuddering ceiling.

BBC: The Iron Lady

But he also felt that he had to perform it as cleverly as he could in order to please his father.

NEWYORKER: Town of Cats

It motivates him to work even harder to please his father.

FORBES: India

By then, too, he had abandoned a career in dentistry, adopted to please that authoritarian father.

ECONOMIST: The writer of westerns

In the 35 years since, a lot has changed--but not nearly enough to please the cellphone's demanding father.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"If your friend says to bully somebody, please don't do it, " said the father of Luis, another of the seventh-graders.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

In one fairly typical encounter, a father asked his eight-year-old son five times to please go take a bath or a shower.

NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten