Sentence examples for on a covenant from inspiring English sources

The ethical work of program evaluators is based on a covenant of honesty and transparency among stakeholders.

The Puritans' vision of America as "a city upon a hill" was based on a covenant with God.

When the player unloads on a Covenant enemy with a firearm, sprays of blue alien blood cake the walls and floor around the target and melee attacks hit home with an eye-watering 'crack'crack

But there are limits to all balancing acts.His hopes of holding together the Anglican Communion where, to put it simply, socially conservative Africans are at loggerheads odds with liberal North Americans have rested on a Covenant to which all member churches are invited to sign up.

The archbishop said the decision to seek agreement on a covenant while urging church liberals in North America to hold back on the openings to homosexuals was broadly supported in the small-group gatherings of about 40 prelates each that, together with smaller Bible study groups, constituted the main work of the conference.

Four simple stone plinths, each engraved with a biblical quotation, suggest basic explanations: a unifying tradition founded on a covenant with God, the shared ordeal of exile in Egypt, acceptance of a code of laws based on divine revelation, and the promise of the land of Israel.

Depending upon how Pricewaterhouse assesses the company's enormous amount of good will and other intangible assets on its balance sheet, Tyco could be in violation of a covenant on some recently negotiated bank debt.

If the Quakers used the stadium land for anything other then football, they would currently surrender 75% of profits generated to Darlington Borough Council, thanks to a covenant placed on the venue.

For the first time, the power of the state was enlisted on behalf of the ancient covenant and in obedience to a covenant document.

177, a sense of the Senate resolution against the Covenant on Human Rights, calling it "a covenant on human slavery or subservience to government".

Although the financial situation improved somewhat, the changes were not enough, and Sbarro breached a covenant on one of its loans last year.