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covenant

[kuhv-uh-nuhnt] / หˆkสŒv ษ™ nษ™nt /




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Now, he’s suing USC for promissory estoppel, fraud, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing and negligent misrepresentation.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Jul. 23, 2026

“Any further increase in leverage or inability to service debt could result in downgraded credit ratings, and liquidity or covenant issues.”

From MarketWatch โ— Jun. 11, 2026

To do otherwise is to betray the covenant between California taxpayers and the UC system.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Jun. 1, 2026

“When physicians prioritize access to power over ethical judgment, they often break the foundational covenant of medicine,” she wrote.

From Salon โ— May 19, 2026

I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it’s against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from .

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

Some credit covenants have become “a little too weak,” there’s been a bit too much pump-priming of good assets — “a little too much pushing on it,” Dimon said.

From MarketWatch โ— Oct. 14, 2026

Other concerns include covenants in Paramount’s offer that Warner said are overbearing and would hurt its ability to operate the company prior to a deal closing.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Feb. 17, 2026

The order bans new restrictive covenants which prohibit land being used for a supermarket.

From BBC โ— Mar. 5, 2025

With few options to raise revenue for the tribe, individual Agua Caliente members had rented land to newcomers of color who were barred by real estate covenants from living elsewhere in Palm Springs.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Jun. 16, 2024

“I have made covenants that will place me in a position of unfathomable power. After biding my time for long years, I feel my hour of triumph at hand. The evening star is rising.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

A truly covenanted society cannot punish someone who hasn’t been convicted in such a process.

From Salon โ— Mar. 31, 2024

Falcicchio said units covenanted through the program must remain affordable for at least 15 years at or below 80 percent of the area median family income, with the incentive determined by affordability, among other factors.

From Washington Post โ— Dec. 16, 2021

They did not abandon the ideals of a covenanted people, but focused more on preserving their own colony than reforming all Christendom.

From Textbooks โ— Jan. 18, 2018

It held that the sovereign nation does not start with central government but with the local covenanted community – the foedus – which form networks to constitute the nation.

From The Guardian โ— Sep. 8, 2016

A fortnight after Sir Thomas Urquhart's appearance before the Commission of the General Assembly, Charles II. landed in Scotland, and was accepted, though at first not without deep misgivings, as "covenanted King."

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock

On the first leaf, the celebrated covenanting Earl of Glencairne has written,— "This is the copie of Johne Knox his Chronicle, coppiede in the yeere of God 1643.—Glencairne."

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing

Mr Witherspoon, I ken you weel; meikle sweet counselling I hae gotten frae you when ye preached for our minister at Camrachle in the time of the great covenanting.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

So here are the persons covenanting, the matter covenanted to.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr

The young Church of Scotland was based on the Word of God, anti-papal, free, reformed, and covenanting, and in that character acknowledged by the State.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr

There were three hostile armies to be dealt with, besides—ultimately—the main covenanting army far away in England.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various




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