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
I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it’s against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from .
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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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
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
Walmart and other major retailers have made the situation even worse by including restrictive covenants in the deeds of old buildings, which prevent other retailers from using the space for competitive purposes.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2024
“We would forfeit the protection afforded by the foundational covenants of the treaty.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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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
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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
Colchester and the Convent covenanted to observe the Bishop's obit—September 18—which we know they did to the last.
From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Pearce, Ernest Harold
Hence it was a custom upon the making up of covenants, for the parties covenanting, soberly to feast together.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James
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 Kerr, James
There is no reason to suppose that, seeing that sacrifice and covenanting for a vast length of time, were observed together, they were not coeval.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
And the same reason carries it in covenanting, tho' it were only about the maintenance of our outward estates and liberties, forasmuch as therein we have to do with God.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James
Since Charles II. had come to play the sorry part of a covenanting king in 1650 no sovereign of the country had set foot on Scottish soil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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