Sentence examples for perhaps envious from inspiring English sources

Pentecostal pastors in Ghana, perhaps envious of his success, regularly challenge him to spiritual battles to prove who possesses greater powers.

However, he continued his pop music collaborations, even though some musicians in India, perhaps envious, criticised him for working with Western popstars.

He was loved by his clients but, perhaps envious of his undoubted success, in his early years at least, he was rarely welcomed by his fellow lawyers.

Perhaps envious, many members of Germany's financial establishment are suspicious of Walther's modus operandi.

Susan Farewell, a writer and former executive director of the Westport Historical Society, who recently renovated her kitchen -- honey-colored fir floors, granite counters, glass-fronted cabinets -- wonders if perhaps the envious might want to rethink matters.

This in turn means there's likely to be a very sudden and dramatic shift in the national mood - from bitter political divisions about where Britain is headed and who should take it wherever that might be, to a nostalgic remembrance, and perhaps an envious appreciation, of the very different feelings of unity, gratitude and patriotic pride that many people shared seventy years ago.

I was slightly tense, waiting to find out when I was going to be sent over, and I sensed he was perhaps a little envious.

He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.

General de Gaulle declared that Tintin was his only international rival — he was envious, perhaps, not just of Tintin's fame but of the defiantly positive attitude that he came to represent.

Intrigued — and perhaps a little envious of this brilliant young upstart — Hooke travels to Newton's rural home, challenging him to prove his theory that light is made up of particles, a radical notion at odds with Hooke's belief that it is a wave.

Relations with India remain marked by mutual distrust, despite a rapid rise in commercial links.In this section Feeling your pain Young China hands Going underground Can't buy me soft power ReprintsPart of the problem is the envious resentment perhaps inevitably felt for such an economic juggernaut.