Aoun, a veteran politician in his 80s, has long coveted the post.
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People have long coveted ivory for its beauty, ductility and presumed magical properties.
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When just such a unit came up in the long-coveted building, the men hustled.
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While Formula One has long coveted the U.S. market the sport has never caught on.
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There was a mood nearing euphoria as, one by one, long-coveted foreign brands became available.
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Meanwhile, online shopping has finally enabled Walmart to make its long-coveted entry into New York City.
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He at last took the gavel of the Armed Services Committee, an assignment he had long coveted.
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Scaramucci lasted only 85033 days in a job he had long coveted, that of White House communications director.
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Mr. Murdoch has long coveted total ownership of Sky, a satellite broadcaster he founded in the early 1990s.
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Aoun, army commander during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, has long coveted the position his supporters deem rightfully his.
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American game hunter Brady Ellison claimed a long-coveted individual medal with bronze to go with his team silver.
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That, in theory, gives him the long-coveted supermajorities to present constitutional changes to voters for approval by referendum.
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And that means the long-coveted positions like Speaker of the House and majority leader will become less important.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has long coveted the Hammond Ranch for inclusion in its surrounding Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
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Ms. Munsel last performed at the Met in 1958 as Mimi in "La Bohème," a role she had long coveted.
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It has also given him what he has long coveted: Western acknowledgment that Russia is a force to be reckoned with.
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On July 26th Mr Trump at last got the deal he has long coveted: a safe-third country agreement with Guatemala.
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In 2018, when regulators were pressing Wells Fargo to reduce assets, Popular bought from it a long-coveted car-hire company.
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Concerns are mounting about falling home prices in Toronto and Vancouver, and the bank has long coveted a major U.S. acquisition.
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Finland's Kone, another lift-industry giant, has long coveted ET. Japan's Hitachi is also likely to have put in a bid.
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Mr. Lee is admired by the conservative base for his anti-spending positions, and Mr. Cruz had long coveted his endorsement.
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And after Mr. Baldwin won, he alluded to the fact that Mr. Trump had long coveted an Emmy but never won one.
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At the time, nearly all of the company's attention was focused on completing the acquisition, a long-coveted piece of Murdoch's future strategy.
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FIFA has long coveted a worldwide club competition that would be as popular as the Champions League, which generates billions of dollars annually.
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I had long coveted the PopSockets gripper I saw on other people's phones, but I had refused to buy one of my own.
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Turkey got long-requested American approval and air support to seize part of an area it has long coveted as a buffer zone.
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He is on the verge of acquiring a long-coveted prize, the British satellite and television company Sky, for his European media empire.
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A slender, bespectacled man who would become one of Africa's most notorious despots was about to secure a prize he had long coveted.
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At the same moment Trump was walking into Windsor Castle, news from back home threatened to overshadow the royal meeting he had long coveted.
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State-run companies from resource-hungry China have long coveted Reko Diq and more recently Saudi Arabia has shown interest, according to Pakistani officials.
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Johnson, 55, is the charismatic former Mayor of London and a product of the British elite, and has long coveted the role of Prime Minister.
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North Korea has long coveted diplomatic recognition from Washington, but sees its nuclear deterrent as crucial to ensuring the survival of its third-generation dictatorship.
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Several have long coveted the Tesco business, not least Charoen Pokphand Group's Dhanin Chearavanont, who sold the assets to Tesco during the Asian financial crisis.
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Notoriously pugnacious, Churchill is nobody's first choice, and even he realizes that the job he has long coveted comes to him at the worst imaginable time.
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Inside Energy Transfer, the fear is that the deal that was long coveted could now severely weaken the combined company if energy prices do not rebound.
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But its crown jewel is Gucci, a brand long coveted by LVMH, and Kering had helped McCartney develop her brand over a 17-year joint venture.
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For Facebook and Instagram, which have long coveted Snapchat's strong engagement among younger users, Threads could represent another effort to chip away at their rival's appeal.
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"Tulsi Gabbard is running for President of the United States, a position Clinton has long coveted, but has not been able to attain," the filing begins.
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In Britain, incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lost his majority, his long-coveted control over legislation, and even his attempt to call a new election.
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It also helped contribute to sweeping Republican gains in the 251 midterms — albeit gains that weren't large enough to give McConnell has long-coveted majority just yet.
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First it moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem — giving the right-wing Israeli government of Bibi Netanyahu a long-coveted prize — and asked for nothing in return.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, the paper is one the billionaire long coveted; some feared, at the time, that he would meddle in its editorial affairs.
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It also helped contribute to sweeping Republican gains in the 2010 midterms — albeit gains that weren't large enough to give McConnell has long-coveted majority just yet.
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Pitaro worked for Iger for eight years, running Disney's digital and consumer product divisions, before he got the chance to run ESPN, a job he had long coveted.
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This fall, his battle would have been with Democrats, who have long coveted Mr. Larkin's Hudson Valley district, the 39th, which has substantially more registered Democrats than Republicans.
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And that includes regulations around drilling in national parks that, if overturned, could give oil and gas companies easier access to leases on federal lands they've long coveted.
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But the decision is a blow for Chief Executive Rakesh Kapoor, who has long coveted the Pfizer operation as a means to bolster Reckitt's position in consumer health (CH).
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But Mr. Damon, one of the producers of "Manchester by the Sea," said that Mr. Affleck had long coveted privacy, especially after witnessing the relentless scrutiny aimed at Ben.
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Total, a French energy group, and Siemens, a German engineering outfit, were among those who have reluctantly had to forgo opportunities in a market which European firms have long coveted.
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The blocks that Mexico is offering could attract billions of dollars in investment from companies that have long coveted access to the deep waters on Mexico's side of the Gulf.
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Instagram's new Stories sticker lets you ask your followers to join a new group chat Instagram has long coveted the high engagement Snapchat gets from young people trading endless messages there.
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While Israel has long coveted sovereignty in the Golan, it is unclear whether the White House would take such a step now, given that it could further complicate the Syrian conflict.
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His church in Kotor, an ancient fortress town, is just a few yards from Kotor Bay, a deepwater haven long coveted by both Russia and the West for its strategic location.
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While he got the tax cuts he has long coveted, it became clear over the past 15 months that Trump simply didn't see the world the same way that Ryan did.
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For the time being, at least, the Turkish government seems content with the current status quo, through which it has succeeded in creating a long-coveted buffer zone on Syrian soil.
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A few moments of long-coveted solitude give way to a montage of Sam renting a car, picking up her girls, and taking them for a fun-filled day at the beach.
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He had long coveted the neighborhood for all the success that could be seen from that window: the luxury condos; the tech offices; the Salesforce Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the city.
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Murdoch and his family have long coveted full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt in 2011 when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone-hacking scandal.
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Spanish media and online reports said Sainz - a young talent long coveted by Renault - was set to move to the French manufacturer team as a sweetener for Toro Rosso terminating their engine contract.
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As a result, Washington's hair has been the subject of intense fascination, long coveted as a tangible, and once-living, piece of the man who, for many, embodied the United States' origin story.
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If approved, it will go to a vote of Sky independent shareholders, paving the way for the 86-year-old Murdoch to finally get his hands on a company he has long coveted.
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As Cersei surveys the destruction from a balcony, her bloody redemption plays out in her expression, cycling from cruel resolve to cool reflection to, finally, delight at claiming the power she's long coveted.
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It would have yielded Pfizer the huge takeover that it had long coveted — and, perhaps more important, given it the chance to finally relocate its corporate home abroad to lower its tax bill.
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Those include overhauling a Fox News culture that has been damaged by repeated sexual harassment allegations and pursuing the acquisition of the British satellite company Sky, long coveted by the family patriarch, Rupert Murdoch.
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The suit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, refers to Clinton as having "long coveted" but "not been able to attain" the presidency that Gabbard is seeking.
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Those include overhauling a Fox News culture that has been damaged by repeated sexual harassment allegations and pursuing the acquisition of the British satellite company Sky, long coveted by the family patriarch, Rupert Murdoch.
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Rupert Murdoch has long coveted total ownership of Sky, whose assets include broadband services, a Pan-European satellite television network and popular original broadcasting with rights to sporting events like the English Premier League.
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CIBC has long coveted a major U.S. acquisition and PrivateBancorp looked to tick all the boxes by providing CIBC a platform to expand into the United States and offer U.S. banking services to Canadian clients.
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Along with tapes of performances, fans have long coveted studio outtakes, illegal remixes, hip-hop mixtapes, live DJ sets, radio sessions, and other veritable field recordings from the legal grey area known as the real world.
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NEW DELHI — President Donald Trump will close out his 36-hour trip to India Tuesday without striking a long-coveted trade deal to ease tariffs — but that won't stop him from selling it as a victory.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Boeing Co is counting on a new kind of worker to help it reach a long-coveted target of rolling out 14 787 Dreamliners from its factories each month: half human, half robot.
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West of the river, Syrian rebels and their Turkish backers now control an area that Turkey has long coveted as a buffer zone, where displaced Syrians, protected from aerial bombing, could gather instead of flowing into Turkey.
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If Bank of America selects Paris that would mark a long-coveted victory for the new French government that has stepped up efforts to attract London banks to Paris after the election of Emmanuel Macron as French president.
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She has long coveted the state's governorship, having narrowly lost a bid in 2004, but on Tuesday night, she signaled that she had run her final race, though she said she would be unencumbered in speaking her mind.
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The move is part of a broader, holistic effort by U.S. Soccer to identify prospects and provide them the support and the coaching that will produce the kind of world-class talent the United States has long coveted.
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McCartney had long coveted his Beatles catalog -- he and Lennon lost out to ATV in a 304 attempt to purchase Northern Songs, their original publisher -- and he never forgave Jackson for what he considered a betrayal of their friendship.
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Murdoch, 86, and his family have long coveted full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt in 2011 when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone-hacking scandal which forced them to abandon that bid.
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Formula One has long coveted a New York race, with a Grand Prix in New Jersey listed on the provisional 2014 calendar before disappearing, but electric racing hopes to get there first with a quieter and more city friendly format.
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Murdoch and his family have long coveted full control of Sky, despite the damaging failure of a previous attempt in 2011 when their British newspaper business became embroiled in a phone-hacking scandal which forced them to drop the bid.
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The company also faces continuing regulatory scrutiny in Britain over its $15 billion bid to acquire full control of Sky, the European satellite giant long coveted by Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan, who control 21st Century Fox.
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In 25, Donald Trump won the office Warner had long coveted for himself, helped along by a Russian cyberattack and campaigning on a message about economic insecurity that raised many of the issues Warner had been talking about for a decade.
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That gives Saudi Arabian Oil Co (Aramco) a market value of about $1.88 trillion, comfortably making it the world's most valuable listed company and closing in on the $2 trillion price tag long coveted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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That gives Saudi Arabian Oil Co (Aramco) a market value of about $14.63 trillion, comfortably making it the world's most valuable listed company and closing in on the $214.6 trillion price tag long coveted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina looked every bit like a potential national ticket here on Wednesday, giving his supporters a glimpse of what many Republicans have long coveted: a multicultural new look for a party hungry to be competitive in November.
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"I feel good about my game but the biggest thing for me is to focus on trying to extend the lead," said the 28-year-old, who has long coveted a first Players title to add to his already impressive golfing resume.
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The state-owned Gulf carrier has long coveted the Indian aviation market, which is the fastest growing in the world, and in 2017 said it would set up a domestic airline, a year after India eased foreign investment rules for the sector.
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But the Republican recapture of the Senate in the 22008 mid-term election gave him a chance to rewrite the final chapter of his career, as he at long last took the gavel of the Senate armed services committee, an assignment he had long coveted.
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China's long coveted annexation of Congo finally went through — the repeated elevator scenes, perhaps a nod to John Woo's famous single-take hospital sequence in "Hard Boiled," were an ingenious way to provide a ticktock on the U.N. vote (and presumably cut between shots).
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But for Rudolph W. Giuliani, the bombastic former mayor of New York City, a wild year of being one of President-elect Donald J. Trump's most passionate surrogates did not, in the end, land him the high-profile administration job he has long coveted.
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The product range — available today in Walmart stores — features a few items we've long coveted (like lip balms that change with your pH and rainbow highlighter), plus a few we didn't know we needed until now, including marbleized lipstick and a full-spectrum palette of hair chalk.
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"The Mars community has long coveted the scientific value of sites such as Jezero Crater, and a previous mission contemplated going there, but the challenges with safely landing were considered prohibitive," said Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement.
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"The Mars community has long coveted the scientific value of sites such as Jezero Crater, and a previous mission contemplated going there, but the challenges with safely landing were considered prohibitive," said Ken Farley, project scientist for Mars 2020 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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The renewed interest in the circumstances surrounding the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles—long coveted by Ukraine as a way to fend off Russian aggression in the east—has been spurred by revelations about the Trump administration's dealings with the newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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But a 2017 tax overhaul signed into law by President Donald Trump included a provision requiring lease sales in the refuge's 1.5 million acre coastal plain, a region long coveted by the oil industry for its hydrocarbon potential but prized by natives and environmentalists for its wildlife value.
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There were other actors as well, like Harvey Keitel, who went there with a date early on, using the occasion to try out a long-coveted belted leather trench coat like the ones he used to see in movies about World War II but was nervous to wear himself.
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With frozen dirt road crunching under the car tires, my longtime fishing buddy (and paleontologist) Mike and I pull out of the driveway of my family cottage in New Hampshire for the hour drive north east toward the White Mountains , where an invite we've long coveted has us giddy.
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JERUSALEM — The only immediate consequence of the Trump peace plan — and possibly all that will ever come of it — was the green light President Trump gave to Israel Tuesday to expand its territory by effectively annexing vast stretches of land it has long coveted on the West Bank.
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It is a fanciful idea, certainly, and would take considerable chutzpah for the Yankees, who are on pace to win 107 games, to deal across town their best and most popular player, a long-coveted homegrown star who has done more than anyone else to energize a tired fan base.
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In exchange for Israeli flexibility, Arab countries in the Sunni coalition — notably Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — would extend privileges that Israel has long coveted, including overflight and perhaps some sort of diplomatic status, and offer lavish funding to prop up the Palestinian entity that signs an agreement with Israel.
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Watching longtime anti-Russia hawks — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton — shucking off everything they've said over the years and ignoring Trump's coddling of Putin and his trashing of the F.B.I. in order to grab jobs they'd long coveted is witnessing careerism, sycophancy and cynicism on an industrial scale.
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Sure, there was a certain romance in getting your most recent news of the world from a four-day-old International Herald Tribune in a dusty hotel on the edge of the Sahara, just as there was romance in finally unearthing a long-coveted out-of-print book in a secondhand bookstore; but T-Mobile and Amazon are unquestionably, objectively better.
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Though Democrats have long coveted Trump's tax returns, which the candidate and now president has refused to release, a cadre of Democratic operatives and lawmakers stressed the need to focus on the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, which the Congressional Budget Office says would cause millions to lose health insurance, lead to higher premiums in the short-term and decrease the amount spent on Medicaid.
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Two months later, he was in Saudi Arabia, meeting with Mr. Grine and the crown prince about business opportunities there, according to A.M.I. And by January, Mr. Pecker was confident enough about his growing rapport with Saudi investors that he sought their help bankrolling a possible acquisition of Time magazine, which he had long coveted, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks.
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