Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet COVETING

Definition av COVETING

1. presensparticip av covet

Exempel på hur man kan använda COVETING i en mening

• The story follows Ramza Beoulve, a highborn cadet placed in the middle of a military conflict known as The Lion War, where two opposing noble factions are coveting the throne of the kingdom.
• After three years of intriguing against his younger brother Demetrius, including accusing him of coveting the succession to the Macedonian throne and being allied to Rome, Perseus persuades his father King Philip V of Macedon to have Demetrius executed.
• Others point to a primitive idealist belief in a relation between bewitching and coveting, reflected in the occasional translation of the Tenth Commandment as 'Thou shalt not covet'.
• Hervey was Derry's most generous philanthropist, although some of the clergy in his diocese came to regard him as cheerfully sadistic, for such instances as when he instructed any portly priests coveting plum promotions to compete in midnight runs through bogs and marshland.
• Disposing of the Wyrdes, influencing Leng to send Forad Darre, and taking the forms of Yrsa the Troll and Igrid, the god of chaos plotted an elaborate coup against Krohn, coveting Fre and desiring rulership of the denizens of Axeoth for himself.
• Also on the scene are Kathie "Bubba" Ryan, a 22-year-old girl who has been coveting Olive and Nancy's risqué lifestyle from her neighbouring house almost all her life, and Emma Leech, Olive's cynical, irritable, but wise mother.
• He portrays Bellere and Willoughby as entirely legitimate targets: Willoughby's ransom is reduced to a less avaricious 90 marks, while Bellere becomes the aggressor of his killers, not only "heaping threats and injustices" on to his neighbours but coveting their "possessions".
• Nottage is attuned to the specific hardships of African American actors coveting fame throughout history, and her irony detector can’t help beeping as it surveys all the social progress that has been made.
• Cappello argued that Venetian hesitancy had only emboldened the Ottomans, and led to the loss of Constantinople, the Morea, and Bosnia; that the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II, was openly coveting Venetian territories; that Venice was decried in Europe for having sacrificed the eastern Christians to her commercial interests; that further passivity would lead to loss of both honour and territories; and that the only viable policy was to conclude an alliance with the Hungarians and attack the Ottomans from north and south, with Venetian forces capturing the Morea as a first step.
• Similarly, the chapters "Kindness of speech," "Self-control," "Not envying," "Not coveting another’s goods," "Not backbiting," and "Not uttering useless words", which appear under "Ascetic virtue" in Manakkudavar's version, appear under "Domestic virtue" in Parimelalhagar's version.

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