Sentence examples for for covenant from inspiring English sources

Currently they are engaged in a clothing drive for Covenant House, a shelter for runaways in Manhattan.

The Oklahoma Legislature, controlled by Democrats, has all but killed the governor's proposals for covenant marriage and the removal of mutual incompatibility as grounds for divorce.

But Tamara Johnson, director of communications and outreach for Covenant House, said that efforts to prepare residents for those jobs are being sabotaged by the people themselves.

At the peak of the lending boom in 2006 and 2007, the fashion was for "covenant lite" deals which gave creditors fewer safeguards; traditionally, covenants were used to force debt repayment when the debtor missed certain financial targets.

Shares of the Covanta Energy Corporation fell 60percenttodayafterthe the power producer said it had limited cash available and was negotiating with its banks for covenant waivers.

Michael Bolles, a spokesman for Covenant, said lost items were often a result of passengers' distraction: last year 60,103 items were mistakenly left behind at San Francisco's security checkpoints (out of 40 million passenger screenings), but the company declined to say how many were returned to their owners.

They returned a total of 33 percent in the five years through January compared with 31 percent for covenant-heavy loans, according to Leveraged Commentary and Data.

The place to look for a decisive shift in sentiment is in the buy-out market, which has been fuelled by a trio of habits that in more sober times would have had lenders reaching for the Alka-Seltzer.The first of these lies in the burgeoning market for "covenant-lite" loans.

This is because the enforcement of covenants by means of injunction, the equitable servitude discussed in the next section, has largely taken over, as a practical matter, for covenants that run with the land at law.

In the early 1980s, after the rejection by the Church of England of yet another unity proposal, the Rev Kenneth Greet led the Methodist team at the final meeting of the Churches Council for Covenanting.

Historically, the ability to create servitudes with benefits in gross has been severely limited, but the need for transportation and utility easements that serve individuals and businesses and the need for covenants that serve conservation, preservation, and governmental purposes led to a relaxation of the limits in the 19th and 20th centuries.