covenant

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While private-credit assets don’t trade on public markets, they’re valued regularly, typically by independent third-party agents, based on borrower performance, leverage, covenant compliance and deal structure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 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

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

Not as a shield from discomfort but as a covenant for the world we still have a chance to build for all of us.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2025

Similarly, the Pilgrims and the Puritans, the first groups from England to settle what became the United States, believed they had a covenant with God to take the land.

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