Sentence examples for formal covenant from inspiring English sources
There is no formal covenant holding those churches together.
The Tory backbench MP Philip Hollobone tabled an amendment to the Bill which would grant formal recognition to the covenant – a potential focus for rebellion.
Covenant came to mean a formal executory contract under seal.
The Palestinians promised to crack down on the Hamas and Islamic Jihad military infrastructure, arrest 30 wanted terrorists, reduce their police force, collect illegal weapons, prohibit incitement against Israel, and complete the formal annulment of clauses in the Palestinian Covenant calling for Israel's destruction.
In 1774 the Berkshires issued the Lenox Covenant, one of the first formal acts of defiance against the Crown's taxation without representation.
The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, announced a consensus to seek the pact, known as a covenant, in the absence of a formal vote at the Lambeth Conference, which meets in Canterbury every 10 years.
The reading of the book (probably Deuteronomy), followed by a national covenant ceremony, is generally interpreted as having constituted a formal act of canonization.
9 February 2011: military covenant.
"The Holcroft Covenant," 1985.
