Sentence examples for Coveting from inspiring English sources

Part of the glum view of Mr Brown is that his decade spent coveting his Downing Street neighbour's job has reinforced those habits.

But should we blame Mr Butt for coveting his peers' wealth?

Usefully, and originally, Mr Nugent has explained the connection between the two "habits", of coveting territory and of justifying expansion in the name of freedom.

Buddhist monks are prohibited from having sex or coveting money.Not only sex and drugs but also violence has infected the monkhood.

She is a racist and a junkie, coveting designer items and expensive labels.

Dissatisfied with Pizarro's leadership and coveting a governorship of his own, de Soto returned to Spain in 1536.

Although as part of the cession Frederick II agreed to recognize the election of Francis Stephen of Lorraine as Holy Roman emperor Francis I in 1745, Maria Theresa never forgave his "rape" of Silesia; at the war's conclusion she immediately undertook preparations first to deter Frederick from coveting more of her lands and then to take Silesia back.

Naturally, you can still be stoned to death for coveting your neighbour's wife in certain Muslim jurisdictions, but the steady decriminalisation of marital infidelity has been a feature of European and (latterly at any rate) American law for several centuries.

Soon afterwards Redford tells Paul Newman, whom he suspects of coveting his woman, that he can have her.

After 180 years of coveting the East wing of Somerset House, and after many false dawns, it has finally got its hands on it.

Anyone coveting a paired-back Scandi aesthetic in their home, should look up Danish brand Fuss's collections.