0 an agreement between two people or two parties to do, or not to do, something -- pakt, avtale, kontrakt
The third category of grievances is connected with those restrictive covenants which we find in most leases of shops.
I am sure that as a result of the new concession many such covenants will now be made up to £100.
I believe it to be a rule applicable to all diplomatic practice that one should arrive at open covenants as secretly as possible.
The specific rights and freedoms codified in the universal declaration of human rights and the two international covenants transcend national, religious, cultural and ideological frontiers.
Corresponding statistics with regard to covenanted benefit are not available.
Whilst the author draws attention to diversity of forms in civil covenants, he is concerned to stress uniformity in the theology and structure of colonial church covenants.
Such a constellation of traits suggests that the statue personified oracular powers, the propitiation of which required covenants with humans in the form of prayers and offerings.
The better way to put the distinction is to say that colonial and early state constitutions were assumed to be the product of a people constituted by earlier covenants.
