Sentence examples for covenant in which from inspiring English sources

Now we have Scott's "Alien: Covenant," in which the crew of another spaceship, the Covenant, go through the same experience, and make the same mistake of importing the thing in question onto their craft.

Meanwhile, Defence Minister Mark Francois has launched a new corporate covenant, in which businesses and charities sign a written commitment to help improve the lives of serving personnel, their families and veterans who are working for them, or using their services.

On the other side, the Judeo-Christian account adds God's love to the notion of God's command, so that the covenant in which the commands are embedded is a covenant by which God blesses us, and we are given a route towards our highest good which is union with God.

In 1928, landlords in the subdivision signed the covenants in which they agreed that they would not rent to non-whites.

Efforts to promote Covenant Marriage, in which couples sign an agreement before marrying, making it harder to divorce, largely failed there and in other Southern states.

The boys went through a bonding ritual, known as a "covenant ceremony," in which Bishop Long gave them jewelry and exchanged vows with them while quoting from Scripture as ceremonial candles burned, according to court complaints filed against the pastor.

On the historical and social level, it seems quite certain that the community of the formative period in Islam was based on covenant acts, in which persons or groups formally proclaimed their acceptance of Muhammad's message and swore an oath of loyalty, accepting the obligations outlined above.

The bonds were backed only by sewer system revenue, but there was a covenant in them in which the Jefferson County commissioners promised to keep rates adequate to meet the system's obligations.

So-called covenant-lite contracts, in which creditors give up certain rights but impose conditions on a borrower's balance sheet, are harder to come by, while banks are slowly forcing down leverage ratios.

So the deal that defined modern society was a covenant between humanism and science in which the latter provided the means for achieving the ends specified by the former.

The basis for its observance is found in the Torah of the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis chapter 17, in which a covenant of circumcision is made with Abraham and his descendants.