Sentence examples for coveted power from inspiring English sources

Good listening skills are a quiet, yet coveted power -- and being a good listener also conveys positivity.

That Rupert Murdoch has always coveted power and money over ideology is best demonstrated by remembering that from 1977-85, he owned the Village Voice.

Today, researchers at Stanford University are reporting that they have found a previously unknown member of this chemical cascade, a hormone with a much coveted power: it sharply reduces the desire to eat.

But it is far from clear that legislators motivated by self-preservation will give up the coveted power to redraw district lines, even though a majority publicly pledged to New York Uprising, a civic coalition organized by former Mayor Edward I. Koch, that they would support an independent redistricting process.

Pachomius had explicitly forbidden monks to become priests on the ground that "it is good not to covet power and glory".

Mrs. Clinton, the letter states, "covets power and control and thinks she should be dictating how other people run their lives".

("So, Karol, you threaten us, eh?") The morally threadbare Russian ideologues who covet power have contempt for religion and secretly appreciate the perks of capitalism (their salient traits here) see a solution to this problem.

The truly powerless acting teacher really covets power.

The low-sulfur coal coveted by power plants exists in abundance beneath the green ridges near this central Alabama town, but to get it, miners must take the longest elevator ride in the country to a dark and risky office: 175 stories straight down, past cracks and crevices packed with highly volatile methane gas.

Mrs. Clinton, it says, "covets power and control and thinks she should be dictating how other people run their lives.

Imagine how much certain governments would covet such power.