Sentence examples for This covenant from inspiring English sources

This covenant fulfilled the two great demands of the agricultural order: land and paternally certain offspring.

This covenant, present in almost every acquisition agreement, requires the target business to be run in the usual, ordinary and regular course consistent with past practice between the time of announcement of the deal and completion.

At a summit in Brussels this week, 25 European leaders pledged to observe this covenant and made burnt offerings of their economic sovereignty.

We expect further asset sales will keep this covenant out of concern.

At the time of closing, this covenant must not have been breached in any material respect.

Adam's understanding of this covenant was that these gifts were not to be tallied against his own achievement later.

I'm taking Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott (Oxford World's Classics £12.99) with me to reread after many years, as I love the setting of this covenanting tale and Scott is a consummate storyteller.

How can we all experience this faithful covenant with God and this sense of unity in our faith communities, even those who have sown hate and lies till now?

His words in chapter 31, verse 33, are a summation of his reform: "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people".

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.

And, as Miles argues, this new covenant represented a shocking rupture.