covenant
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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
If politicians, news outlets, and civic organizations adopted a “civic covenant for the AI age,” much like current journalistic standards, could we create a healthier public square?
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025
In 2020, pandemic-era covenant suspensions created the conditions for distressed companies to scrutinize their loan documents, uncovering the “liability management loopholes” that have defined the years that followed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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
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Dimon says creditors are making more aggressive and positive assumptions about future performance, covenants are weakening, there’s more use of payment-in-kind, more aggressive private ratings and more arbitrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
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
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
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
What unknown covenants led her ultimately to this beach and this hour and this solitude?
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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
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
“I think the ethically responsible thing for gay and lesbian Christians to do is to form lasting, covenanted partnerships,” Neff said in a statement to CT.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015
Whatever, therefore, shall be acknowledged to be the duty of the covenanted follower of the Lamb, is equally the duty of every individual who stands disconnected with the visible Church.
From A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing by John F. Mesick
In 1772 the nawab of Oudh made a treaty with the Rohillas, covenanting to expel the Mahrattas in return for a money payment.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Mind, this covenanting with God is not a case of bargaining.
From Standards of Life and Service by Thomas Henry Howard
On the first leaf, the celebrated covenanting Earl of Glencairne has written,— "This is the copie of Johne Knox his Chronicle, coppiede in the yeere of God 1643.—Glencairne."
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
The lands lying by the water side were granted to certain of the adventurers and merchants, they covenanting to pay rent and service to Gilbert, his heirs and assigns for ever.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
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 James Kerr
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