Sentence examples for break the covenant from inspiring English sources
Debegri attempts to subdue Tlanth under the pretense of unpaid taxes and for conspiring to break the Covenant.
But any cuts will break the covenant under which workers have paid payroll taxes for a lifetime.
Galdran covets the Tlanth lands for his cruel cousin, Baron Nenthar Debegri, and also seeks to break the Covenant – an ancient pact between humans and the Hill Folk – by resuming the harvest of their valuable "colorwoods".
His objective was to disrupt trade between the English at Albany and the Iroquois confederation, to which the Seneca belonged, and to break the Covenant Chain, a peace Andros had negotiated in 1677 while he was governor of New York.
From inside the bubble, few performers broke the covenant by alluding to the world outside.
But the I.N.S., in a statement from Andrea J. Quarantillo, the district director, said the refugee service "broke the covenant that had been reached with I.N.S".
One of the worst disasters in recent British military history was the result of "incompetence, complacency and cynicism" by senior military figures which broke the covenant the country has with its soldiers, a devastating official report has concluded.
He suggested the government risked breaking the "covenant" between the nation and the armed forces: soldiers endanger their lives for their country, but expect respect and decent conditions of service in return.
Mr. Trump's faux pas was roundly mocked on social media, where he was criticized for breaking the covenant in which we have all agreed to deceive our children.
In the Mail interview he went further, criticising the defence secretary, Des Browne, for the "unacceptable" treatment of injured troops and warning that the government was in danger of breaking the "covenant" between a country and its army.
