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covenant

[kuhv-uh-nuhnt] / ˈkʌv ə nənt /




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The property sits above the street on two lots which have been tied together through a covenant, and has 13,930 square feet of exterior space.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

“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

One of these said alterations had been "clearly shown" using Google Earth satellite imagery, which Mr Milne said was a "breach of the aforesaid covenant".

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

Immigrants who take the oath are pledging loyalty to the covenant.

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

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

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 Feb. 17, 2026

A clause placed in thousands of L.A. property deeds in 1902 restricted housing covenants at the time West Adams Heights and many other L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2025

Disney also agrees that a development agreement and restrictive covenants passed before the takeover are also not valid, according to the settlement terms.

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2024

What unknown covenants led her ultimately to this beach and this hour and this solitude?

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

From Salon 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 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 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

There are two cases wherein subjects are loosed from covenanted allegiance to their princes.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

But the king soon found, that the happiness chiefly of the allusion had tempted the preacher to employ this text, and that the covenanting zealots were nowise pacified towards him.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume

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

They need just what the ordinance of baptism, properly observed and fully carried out by covenanting parents, would do for them.

From Bertha and Her Baptism by Nehemiah Adams

Now these successful effects of covenanting well minded, First, May hint to us a satisfactory reason, in case peace comes not presently.

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

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




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