0 a formal agreement or promise between two or more people -- 盟约；契约；协定；承诺
The contract contained a restrictive covenant against building on the land. 该合同包含严格的限制条款，禁止在这块土地上建筑施工。
Leases contained complex covenants to ensure the maintenance, and if possible the improvement, of agricultural conditions on each farm.
Legislation passed in 1791 barred persons of mixed blood from civil, military or maritime employment as covenanted civil servants.
Availability of project-lending documents with policy covenants that are complementary to adjustment loans and/or government policy reforms would be preferable.
Another possibility is that the rise in environmental covenants in adjustment loans since 1987 results from a broader topical coverage of such loans.
Breaking these covenants led to stern warnings from the agent, and on occasion to fines, court cases, or eviction.
Many international covenants and conventions mention the inherent dignity of human beings in their preambles but become largely silent about dignity as soon as matters of application arise.
There is also the possibility of a simultaneous increase in environmental covenants in both adjustment loans and project loans, or in programme loans with project loan covenants left unaltered.
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.
