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Jealously in sentence

23 examples of Jealously in a sentence

God himself was utterly familiar from his earlier manifestation as Yahweh, jealously insisting on no other gods.
That's when we find ourselves in endless, mindless repetitions of words that don't mean anything to us, rising and being seated because someone has asked us to, holding onto jealously guarded doctrine that's completely and wildly out of step with our contemporary reality, engaging in perfunctory practice simply because that's the way things have always been done.
John Knowles modern masterpiece, A Separate Peace, are one of many subtle, and subtly is the watch word, themes of love, hate, jealously, denial and regret.
They jealously of other workers probably made them try to make Karen really sick.
Her boyfriend is suspicious of the newcomer, and this suspicion turns to jealously when the Count and the heiress are married.
But they are far from being a monolithic group: enmity, jealously, anger over the past brutalities and injustices visited upon many of their kin may make some generals and colonels open to suggestions of a coup.
But, until now, it had to lend massive amounts to banks without being able to judge their soundness, because all of that information was in the hands of national authorities who guarded it jealously and typically denied problems until it was too late.
The increase in international cooperation that this approach requires would be difficult to achieve, because nations jealously guard their autonomy over police and security matters.
Both guard their social standing jealously – and may even punish a guest who attends the other’s party by withholding future invitations.
But this enraged Zeus, a merciless tyrant who jealously guarded his exclusive access to awesome technologies.
Such a dispensation is severely lacking in many parts of the EU, beginning with Germany, which, despite having regained confidence in its own future, jealously guards its resources.
Traditions are jealously guarded, like precious heirlooms, to be passed on as long as those dreams persist.
Typically, ministers fight jealously over these spoils, as their ability to leave a mark in their respective fields often depends on it.
They now jealously guard their power and band together to protect their prerogatives and perks.
There has been no sign of this yet, but these are areas that almost all EU national governments jealously guard, even though they lack the EU’s collective clout.
Unfortunately, existing international institutions, like the UN, are ill-suited to safeguard universal interests because they are associations of states, and states jealously guard their interests.
Instead, national and regional interests jealously track which EU member countries drive the economy, and which are the alleged slackers.
The EU, after all, is composed of sovereign states that jealously guard their prerogatives while occasionally yielding some aspect of sovereignty to central institutions for mutually agreed-upon purposes.
Taxes are under the jurisdiction of national and local governments, which jealously guard their tax prerogatives.
As the scion of a dynasty that has jealously guarded the North’s independence for 70 years, Kim, like his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the state’s founder, regards national self-reliance as sacrosanct.
(Labor-market rules remain a jealously guarded national competence, so the EU could not have ordered them to do so.)
We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these fields and carrying out our plans.
It seemed impossible that she should ever know the smallest part of the vast warren, or distinguish one pale face from another in the gloom, as the women led her through long lines of lonely chambers where the wind sighed alone under the glittering ceilings, to hanging gardens two hundred feet above the level of the ground, but still jealously guarded by high walls, and down again, by interminable stairways, from the glare and the blue of the flat roofs to silent subterranean chambers hewn against the heat of the summer sixty feet into the heart of the living rock.