Sentence examples for By covenant from inspiring English sources

Another explanation is that the remedy given by covenant was inadequate.

(By covenant, the original Levittowners agreed to mow their lawns once a week between April 15th and November 15th).

After severe testing, believers were organized by covenant into a Puritan "church-state," and native teachers and evangelists were trained.

A lawn is an informer, which is why it is the preferred landscape of the America that lives by covenant.

In the 1890s, a descendant divided them up into 600 lots, restricting them by covenant to single-family ownership with the aim of attracting stable middle-class residents.

Fewer than 3percentt of couples who marry in Louisiana and Arizona take on the extra restrictions of marriage by covenant.

Many such loans are issued as senior-secured debt by stronger borrowers, making many of them safer than sub-prime residential mortgages.Buy-outs financed by covenant-lite loans are less likely to fail early (there are, after all, no covenants to break as the company deteriorates).

In that case, buyers must agree to abide by covenants and restrictions he is placing on the land, Mr. Schutz said.

One early factor was the emergence of a property market that was distorted by covenants which specified the race of the purchaser.

The municipality was contracting in behalf of its inhabitants by covenants intended to be enforced by any of them severally as occasion should arise.

Given the tensions in the forest recesses of Humboldt County, where loggers and environmentalists have been at war for decades, a lone tree, especially one that is an emblem of environmentalism, cannot be protected by covenants, only by perpetual guard.