What's the difference between covenant and express?

Covenant


Definition:

  • (n.) A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.
  • (n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant."
  • (n.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.
  • (n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.
  • (n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
  • (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.
  • (v. i.) To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
  • (v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A part of this service was a covenant in the form of a responsive reading between the new physicians and the public.
  • (2) Mecom also said that it had reached an agreement with its banks to amend its debt facilities including a trading covenant "holiday" until June next year.
  • (3) These covenants prohibit sellers from competing with buyers and employees from competing with former employers for a specified period of time.
  • (4) He was critical of the MoD for failing to help single servicemen and said that the post should be responsible for overseeing the military covenant – Britain's "duty of care" to its armed forces.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) While agreeing with Veatch's criticisms of unilateral ethical decision making by physicians, Kultgen argues that his contract model has only limited value--as a heuristic device for thinking about the principles underlying medical ethics--while conceptual difficulties preclude its serving to reconcile conflicting traditions in ethical theories or to achieve a consensus on a morally valid medical covenant.
  • (7) The Covenant itself is out of private reach, residing in the Public Records Office.
  • (8) Covenants come with caveats and ancient woodlands are fair game if there is overriding public interest.
  • (9) I can’t speak for members, but from the trustees’ perspective a defined benefit scheme, when combined with a sponsoring employer with a weak covenant, is almost the perfect storm for pensions.” The Pensions Regulator has the power to pursue parties that it believes should contribute to underfunded schemes, and experts believe that it is considering whether to pursue Green.
  • (10) "Revenue at the time was not generating the sufficient margin for us to be generating the cash needed, there was a risk that covenants could be breached.
  • (11) The report, From Right to Buy to Buy to Let , recommends a review and calls for mandatory covenants on all right-to-buy properties so they cannot be let through the private sector.
  • (12) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party, requires states that have not yet abolished the death penalty to restrict its use to the "most serious crimes".
  • (13) This is a covenant between me and God, and between me and the people of Pakistan," he said, under the new party symbol, a martial-looking falcon.
  • (14) 2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 12.
  • (15) Clock is ticking The company also told the stockmarket that it risked breaching its banking covenants by Christmas if it did not undertake an equity fundraising.
  • (16) He said the police had violated national policy by “causing nine Australians to be placed in danger of being subject to capital punishment”, 14 years after Australia had signed up to the second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
  • (17) "Jimmy Saville asked you about the length of time necessary for charitable covenants to qualify for tax relief," a prime ministerial aide noted.
  • (18) Surgical professionals enter into an unwritten covenant to keep an unspoken promise to discharge their unseen duties in the aseptic chain of events, with only their own consciences to monitor their responsibility to the patient.
  • (19) The most noteworthy threats to the traditional covenant are the changing values and erosion of trust emanating from the competition model of delivering and paying for medical services.
  • (20) "The government's treatment of Dieu Cay appears to be inconsistent with Vietnam's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to freedom of expression and due process," it said in a statement.

Express


Definition:

  • (a.) Exactly representing; exact.
  • (a.) Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement.
  • (a.) Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially.
  • (n.) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
  • (n.) A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.
  • (n.) An express office.
  • (n.) That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
  • (a.) To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.
  • (a.) To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble.
  • (a.) To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell.
  • (a.) To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively.
  • (a.) To denote; to designate.
  • (a.) To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (3) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (4) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (5) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
  • (6) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
  • (7) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
  • (8) These studies show that metabolic activation is necessary for the expression of the mutagenic activity of aflatoxins B1 and G1 in N. crassa.
  • (9) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
  • (10) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
  • (11) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
  • (12) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
  • (13) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
  • (14) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (15) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
  • (16) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
  • (17) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
  • (18) The possibility that both IL 2 production and IL 2R expression are autonomously activated early in T cell development, before acquisition of the CD3-TcR complex, led us to study the implication of alternative pathways of activation at this ontogenic stage.
  • (19) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
  • (20) This study examines the role of sex hormones in modulating the expression of autoimmunity in NZB x NZW F1 mice.