Sentence examples for under a covenant from inspiring English sources

Gently pressed by the herbivorous Davis (where is Torquemada Humphrys when we need him?) about his views on violence, Choudary said "we live in Britain under a covenant of security" – and respect it.

The Acromas management also takes comfort from the fact that its debt was provided under a "covenant-light" regime.

But if we do not live under a religious covenant, then the question of what it is that should have authority over us is indeed thrown open.

In return, landlords who seek to legalize bootlegged units will have to provide some affordable apartments at those buildings — and guarantee that they remain affordable for at least 55 years, under a legal covenant documented with the county recorder.

He is brought aboard the Covenant cruiser Truth and Reconciliation as part of a mission under Orbital Drop Shock Trooper Major Silva to capture a Covenant vessel and return it to Earth intact.

The British people unconsciously have a covenant with British intelligence and it is under strain.

Such covenants were not rare; the Hittite King Hattusilis III made such a covenant with Ishtar.

The connection is more like a covenant.

In Puritan terms, Reagan had a "covenant of grace" with conservatives, not a "covenant of works".

A covenant binds; it also promises.

That was a covenant, a pledge.