(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.
Pact
Definition:
(v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, under the Faustian pact we have witnessed a double whammy: fiscal policy being used to reduce government spending when the economy is already depressed.
(2) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(3) The EU and Ukraine are scheduled to sign the political part of their association pact at the summit on Friday.
(4) The Hollande team maintained that all topics were on the table and also held open the prospect that France could refuse to ratify Merkel's fiscal pact compelling debt and deficit reduction in the eurozone unless eurobonds were recognised as a possible tool.
(5) More than half of Ukrainians oppose Poroshenko’s peace plan, according to a recent poll Second, Poroshenko appears to have made a “non-aggression” pact with Svoboda, the radical Ukrainian nationalist party .
(6) A political official, who asked not to be named, described a pact between elite white and black residents: “There’s an unwritten deal in place,” she said.
(7) Russia Aligned to the Warsaw Pact bloc Sometimes you just have to applaud Russia's diplomatic genius.
(8) The row has weakened Martine Aubry, who declared her presidential bid last week, but had a pact with Strauss-Kahn and could be pressured to stand aside for him.
(9) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
(10) But the Turnbull government has muted its public support for the trade pact since Donald Trump won the US presidential election.
(11) At the time, Christie called the pact “gimmicky” and harmful to business interests.
(12) These parties, with an electoral pact, could win an election to form a one-term coalition to introduce a fair form of proportional representation, after which they could disband.
(13) Despite their crimes, Sharif’s faction of the Pakistan Muslim League has been accused of striking electoral pacts with them in his heartlands of Punjab province.
(14) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(15) The Green party’s only MP, Caroline Lucas , has called on Labour to support multiparty politics by entering into “progressive pacts” with other parties in certain constituencies.
(16) A Tory win could deliver an EU referendum which Ukip has always wanted – potentially through a pact between the parties – but destroy its raison d’être if the UK decides to stay in.
(17) "The party will fight the next general election in Great Britain as an independent party without any pacts or agreements with any other party and presenting our manifesto as the clear and distinct basis for liberal government."
(18) He spoke about his "responsibility pact" to reduce charges for business and cut red tape in exchange for promises that they will employ more staff.
(19) A series of Tory figures have canvassed the possibility of a formal or informal pact, including leading backbencher Nicholas Boles, former prime minister John Major and leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde.
(20) She says that frontbenchers started selling the idea of a pact with the Tories to MPs this morning.