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Example sentences for: covenant

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It tells us that Abraham made a covenant with God which called for his descendants to conquer many lands.
1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
While we're at it, let's compare three kinds of marriage: a no-fault contract (where either party can obtain a divorce on demand), a mutual-consent contract (where both parties must agree to a divorce), and a covenant marriage (where even mutual consent is not enough).
In that sense, a covenant marriage is like the old nuclear-war Doomsday Machine: You are each on notice that you'd better work hard to preserve a good marriage, or you'll both be forced to live your lives in a bad one.
He would have a problem, of course, because most North American gentiles of my age bear the visible signs of the Covenant of Abraham.