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covenant

[kuhv-uh-nuhnt] / ˈkʌv Ι™ nΙ™nt /




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“Do we think that entering into negotiations with Google, Meta and Amazon are closer to making a covenant with God, or making a deal with the devil?” he asked the council.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

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 ● 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 ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

In law, a covenant is a contract or other agreement between people or groups, in which they agree to do or not do a particular thing.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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 ● Oct. 14, 2026

In a decision log, shown to the inquiry, Sanders recorded the need to liaise with the head of corporate communications, Matthew Jarram, to "ascertain what covenants can be imposed on the press".

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

Netflix has no such covenants seeking approval on business matters prior to the deal closing, Warner said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Such projects require that tenants play a meaningful role in running their properties, encourage tenant ownership and include covenants that keep buildings permanently affordable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

But Achilles answered, “Madman. There are no covenants between sheep and wolves, nor between you and me.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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 ● Dec. 16, 2021

Wright and King addressed covenanted congregations with an indomitable faith.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2019

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

From Textbooks ● 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 ● Sep. 8, 2016

He sacrificed Himself, in other words, in order to make possible, through His life and Spirit, a new covenanted society, in which men should have perfect fellowship with God and with one another.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore

Hence it was a custom upon the making up of covenants, for the parties covenanting, soberly to feast together.

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

Coming home, we had lots of fun: even George Brown, a covenanting old chap, caught its spirit.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

And now I will tell you," said I, "how it seems to me God's covenanting with parents for their children came to pass.

From Bertha and Her Baptism by Nehemiah Adams

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

"You covenanting, psalm-singing, tub-thumping old quill-driver!" he continued.

From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman


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