covenants

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Covenants require extralegal agreements, or traditions of trust, even among their competing participants, as much as they require laws that are otherwise too easily undercut by their enforcers.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

The Word of Wisdom is a section of the Doctrine and Covenants, one of the church’s four volumes of scripture.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

The third law of nature is: “men performe their Covenants made.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2017

Mr. Lee worked as a manager at a community college in Taipei and was a volunteer for Covenants Watch, an alliance of human rights organizations in Taiwan.

From New York Times • May 29, 2017

Then, Mephostopholis receive this Deed of Gift; But set Conditionally, that thou perform all Covenants and Articles herein subscribed.

From The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by Mountfort, William