Sentence examples for covenant which from inspiring English sources

It adopted the Solemn League and Covenant, which committed the Westminster Assembly to develop a church polity close to Scotland's presbyterian form.

He then shared a cup of wine with his disciples and told them "this is the blood of my covenant, which is poured out for many".

The great powers agreed to ban their use in the Geneva Protocol of 1925, a covenant which most other nations eventually signed onto.

American liberals hate a covenant which Anglican churches are being asked to sign, pledging to avoid provocative actions like consecrating openly gay bishops.

Consensus for net debt to EBITDA for 2012 is 3.2 times versus the covenant which requires it to be below 3.5 times and our forecast for 4.4 times.

Ironically, this was the same approach initially favoured in the case of the military covenant, which Fox was forced to ditch after pressure from armed forces charities.

The covenants, which act as a template, restricted the C.D.O.

They include affirmative covenants, which require the landowner to make payments, provide services, or render some other performance, and negative covenants, which require the landowner to refrain from doing something.

"They remind us of our covenants, which keep us safe and clean and pure from the world".

The F.H.A. supported the use of racially restrictive covenants, which barred the sale of private homes to buyers of color.

It will also need to recalculate its banking financial covenants "which will take some time to complete".