covenant
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“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
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
There’s no better leading indicator of market psychology than real-time covenant changes, which show where the smart money is quietly hedging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Article 6 of the covenant holds: “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025
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
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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
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
With the Covenant Homeownership Program set to launch this summer, potentially hundreds of families could realize the dream denied them, their parents or grandparents because of state-supported restrictive covenants.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
“We would forfeit the protection afforded by the foundational covenants of the treaty.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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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
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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
No sooner had Ellen covenanted “Thou shalt not!” than off she went on her first adventure,—a trifling one but bleeding.
From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton
It cannot be entered into at any time but by faith—an element essential in covenanting.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
But this leaves abundance of precious remnants, as the Shepherd's covenanting friends would have said.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
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 Kerr, James
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 Hume, David
"You covenanting, psalm-singing, tub-thumping old quill-driver!" he continued.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
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