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covenant

[kuhv-uh-nuhnt] / ˈkʌv ə nənt /




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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 Jul. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Cooper said they are being especially selective about individual credits, choice of manager and covenant protection, but attracted by much higher yields potentially on offer.

From MarketWatch Apr. 10, 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

From the Pilgrims to the founders of the United States and continuing to the present day, the idea of a covenant involving people and God has persisted.

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

Hileman figured the need to invest all that capital would cause private-credit firms to make loans that offered their investors lower returns and came with fewer protections, known as covenants.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

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

From BBC Mar. 5, 2025

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

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

For example, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all refer to covenants made between God and people.

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

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

I felt humble, while I covenanted to dedicate myself to God, and to love and serve Him with all my heart.

From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. Whitney

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

As well might we find fault with Bruce and Wallace as with our covenanting patriots.

From Hunted and Harried by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Then it was that I wrote “Voces Fidelium,” a series of dramatic monologues in verse; then that I indited the bulk of a covenanting novel—like so many others, never finished.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mind, this covenanting with God is not a case of bargaining.

From Standards of Life and Service by Thomas Henry Howard

Under His gracious influence, the bonds of prejudice against covenanting are as green withs and the covenanter stands forth in liberty and in power.

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




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