Sentence examples for breaking the covenant from inspiring English sources

Perhaps that is why our culture risks breaking the covenant with the troops.

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.

When President Obama condemns the covert action activities of a previous government, he is breaking the covenant that exists between intelligence officers who are at the pointy end of the spear, hanging way out there, and the government that authorized them and directed them to go there.

He said the army was "running hot" because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; he implied that the government was breaking the "covenant" with soldiers by not providing adequate pay and conditions for fighting men; and he made little secret of the fact that he wanted more troops for operations in Afghanistan.Since his retirement in August, the wrangling has intensified.

Every week, one or two transgender Americans are killed, in a hate crime, for breaking the covenant of gender.

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.

Debegri attempts to subdue Tlanth under the pretense of unpaid taxes and for conspiring to break the Covenant.

He framed the complex question of the case as: "Can a racially restrictive covenant be enforced at law by a suit for damages against a co-covenantor who allegedly broke the covenant?" The Court decided the answer in the negative.

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".