No other profession has been so acidly ridiculed and at the same time so hotly envied as the legal profession. |
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Their demonstrated skills and competence are envied by other servicemembers. |
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Men may well have envied the social and economic parasitism of middle-class femininity, despite the Victorians' idealization of home life. |
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Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her. |
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The people she envied were men, the merchant venturers, the buccaneers of capitalism. |
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I've always envied people on those TV shows where everyone knows each other. |
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She secretly envied the maid for her ability to remain so sly and untouched by pain. |
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So many people envied me, but they didn't realize that I was just a pretty bird in a gilded cage. |
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What I envied most was that they could write when and what they wanted too. |
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Modern architects, he writes in his foreword, envied the freedom of those artists. |
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I've always envied the girls on TV with the nice protective older brothers. |
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She just envied Sam because of the view of New York from his building's roof deck. |
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People envied her for her blue-blooded, patrician beauty and her ability to keep her cool under the toughest of situations. |
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I envied the animals for their absolute lack of pretense and their unwillingness to intellectualize. |
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Annabelle felt sorry for the pitiful sight a death had caused a girl who used to be attractive and envied. |
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Moore was admired and envied by 40-year-old women around the world for capturing the heart of an energetic beau 15 years her junior. |
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Panting, I fleetingly envied a couple being carried on litters like lords, an expensive yet terrifying option. |
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He couldn't count the amount of times he had envied those slim hands of hers, with their lily-white grace. |
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I envied how Jake and Noah looked rested while they sat at the breakfast table eating their cereal while I looked like crud. |
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Shawn went on to say that he always envied the animals of the canine family for having this ability. |
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I envied how the material was so malleable compared to wood and that one could get so close to it. |
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Tyndareus envied her for he would love nothing better than to follow his enraged child. |
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Taken as a whole, then, the amount, quality and method of financing health care in Canada, while still improvable, is one to be envied. |
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The diversified economy that placed Canada among the most envied of nations has come undone. |
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He was cleverer than most everyone else, but he envied the carefree affluence of the rich and fatuous. |
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There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity. |
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He changed his old horse with a much more strong and healthy, his friends envied him and his wife felt better when I was at his side. |
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He envied English intrepidity in the discussion of religious and philosophic questions and was particularly interested in the Quakers. |
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He envied his good looks, his talent, and the amount of attention he got. |
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City visitors delighted at seeing lorikeets and possums in Brisbane gardens and other cities envied Brisbane's title of the world's most biodiverse city, he says. |
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Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith. |
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A privileged layer, many of them the sons and daughters of the bureaucracy, envied the indulgences of their counterparts in the West. |
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Canada is seen as one of the wealthiest countries in the world and one of the most envied societies floundering on a rock of its own creation. |
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DragonForce they love or they detest, their virtuosity is envied where they doubt their talent. |
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Think of him as a poor wretch who is to be pitied rather than envied, for he is very near death. |
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I have always envied Zoe three things: her figure, her taste and her eye for a good bit of schmutter. |
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Chairman Mao's radical colleagues, if not Mao himself, envied the popularity of the then prime minister, Zhou Enlai, and made Zhou suffer for it. |
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Jim Al-Khalili is president of the British Humanist Association I've always envied France its insistence on a society that is secular. |
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Canada's economy and financial system during this challenging time was among the strongest and the most envied in the world. |
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Nomads are envied for they can travel, but they are also feared for their travels may bring along new and dangerous things. |
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Our manufacturing record is one of the most envied in the world, with many of our factories considered the best in their country. |
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A setting not only envied but also sought-after in the heart of a magnificent region, proud of its preserved natural and historical heritage. |
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This is a hallmark of an open democracy-one that is envied by citizens of many countries throughout the world. |
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The acquisition of Levinoff-Colbex is a genuine collective success that is envied by many Canadian producers. |
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Everybody talks about it, it is envied outside the European Union, and it is a source of endless discussion within the EU itself. |
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A long time ago, when we first became friends, I had envied that ability. |
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I've always envied the royal family ever since they came into power here. |
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To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied. |
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Maybe at one point I would have envied these students who grew up in privileged families so often laden with trust funds. |
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As the years passed, I envied women who nonchalantly mentioned their periods as nothing more than a minor irritation. |
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Only 2 percent of the globe enjoys this benign weather pattern, envied by the rest of the world, where warm, dry summers follow mild, wet winters. |
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Nobody envied the Secretary of Fine Arts, either his cabinet position or his portfolio. |
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Ever since Plato, philosophers have envied geometers their certitudes. |
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The spirit of a jealous person is one of impurity, which takes on an evil quality that provokes real, perceptible damage to the envied person, animal or property. |
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If our country is envied throughout the world in many respects, it is at the lowest rung of the ladder when it comes to the protection of the most fragile human beings, those who are not yet born. |
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Innis sought to explain how an empire became as powerful as it was or how, despite its perceived and envied strength, it could crumble to the ground. |
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The women billeted in huts at Woburn Abbey envied the women closer to Bletchley who could join in the nightly concerts, lectures, dances and choirs at the manor. |
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It's ironic that everywhere I go around the world, I learn that Canada is envied for many reasons, and one of those is because we are joined at the hip with what is the largest economy in the world. |
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As a 17-year-old midshipman, I envied your audacious style, senator. |
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This blue glass eye is worn to protect the bearer from the effects of jealousy, which may cause the loss of what is being envied or illness or disaster. |
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I always envied girls who could sashay into a crowd and have everyone's attention. |
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It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully. |
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Over the past decade, going back to the 2005 Ashes series, England have used reverse more effectively than almost any other side, something other teams have not just envied but attempted to replicate, or alternatively spike. |
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The garden to the rear of the property forms an actual balcony right at the top of the headland dominating the valley, giving a view which is surely one of the most envied in the region. |
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I had become one of the people I envied, and I now envied a higher level of sharpers and highbinders. |
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Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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Admiral Alfred Tirpitz had also often visited Portsmouth as a naval cadet and admired and envied the Royal Navy. |
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Here, we find the charmer, the charismatic performer idolized by women and envied by men every time he appeared on stage or in elegant drawing-rooms. |
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The urban and interurban networks operated by Transdev are envied in 7 countries: France, Germany, Australia, Spain, Great Britain, Italy and Portugal. |
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Canadians have been able to live cheek by jowl with a mighty military nation in a degree of political independence, security and prosperity that would be envied in many parts of the world. |
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If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander the Great, and likely Alexander envied Hercules, who never existed. |
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Europe has no reason therefore to be ashamed of its performance, because in the meantime, she has maintained her social model, so highly-prized by those who benefit from it and so envied by the others. |
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Fanning was a star, sought out at a tech conference by two little-known developers, Larry and Sergey, who told him how much they envied what he'd built. |
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The women at the manor in turn envied the ones at the abbey with the run of the beautiful park, and those who kept their own ponies in the stables and went hunting. |
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Furthermore, we are envied throughout the world. |
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Well, get on the captain's chair and visit planets and stations to pile up kronigs, meet aliens from all over the cosmos and become the most envied creature of all. |
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How you envied her, set yourself up in opposition to all that. |
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For someone who has earned an envied reputation for his eagle-eye and conscientious approach during a non-controversial career it was something of a nightmare. |
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My brother is a professional artist, and I always sort of envied him. |
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The idea of becoming a judge was spawned on a sunny Pyrenean Sunday in May 2000, in Tarbes, when I envied what I thought was the retirement hobby of one who was to become one of my judge-trainers. |
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Become a man envied and feared by all, you are forging a reputation as a fearsome henchman in your quest for respect and power within the Salieri Family. |
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History is replete with examples of poor and illiterate, but at the same time wise people with little or no formal schooling who became admired, envied and respected leaders in their societies during their times. |
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Canada is envied around the world for its wealth of natural resources. |
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Eckstein was the type of pianist who is often envied by both classical and jazz musicians: he was skilled in classical piano technique, while able to perform convincingly in popular styles. |
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Welcome to some of the world's most envied destinations across the globe. |
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Weavers were to be envied at the end of the eighteenth century for weaving had developed into Scotland's first industry, the counterpart of the woolen industry in England. |
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The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm. |
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