Sentence examples for broken covenant from inspiring English sources

(Atheneum/Reader's Digest Press, $10.95). The poet of our quadrennial electoral power struggles turns to a quasi‐religious theme: Richard Nixon's broken covenant.

In recent months, the issue of armed forces welfare and the "broken covenant" has received unprecedented media attention and a good deal of public sympathy.

Paramount chair Sherry Lansing called the incident "appalling and unconscionable", while Walt Disney Studios chief Dick Cook raged against what he called a "broken covenant between producers of motion pictures and the press".

Professor Bellah's best-known books include "The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial" (1975), "Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life" (1985) and "Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age" (2011).

Bellah's book, The Broken Covenant, points to three "times of trial" in America's past when the very existence of the nation hung in the balance.

Ultimately, the crisis is a religious one, and that is the point that Bellah's book, The Broken Covenant, helps us to see.

Based on our previous explanations, we expect companies to be dependent on key figures and ratios such as net income or equity ratio, since they are relevant when raising external funds and, additionally, capitalizing R&D costs may avoid breaking covenants.

The schools have broken a covenant with students, and with society".

The senator said Mr. Bush, his words notwithstanding, had broken that covenant.

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant".

"We believe this church has broken a covenant with us," said Randy Miller of San Francisco, addressing the convention on behalf of the protesters.