Sikhs, on the other hand, do not give or take dowries, and they solemnize their marriages before the Granth, their sacred book. |
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This is a marked fall from 1990 when over half of marriages were solemnised in a religious ceremony. |
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I would love to see more articles on maintaining marriages and relationships. |
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He emphasizes how these arrangements often led to romantic relationships and marriages. |
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I think it's the secrets that do destroy marriages and do destroy relationships. |
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Divorce is far more prevalent today, ending nearly half of all marriages compared to little more than a quarter back then. |
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There are no legal restrictions on who can marry except for marriages between close relatives. |
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For most perpetual conflicts in marriages, what matters is not conflict resolution, but the attitudes that surround discussion of the conflict. |
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For more than a hundred years legal loopholes have allowed thousands of couples to annul their marriages. |
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These are the areas where child marriages and dedication of young girls as devadasis continue to be problems. |
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The marriage of hip-hop with electronic dance music is well established, but most of this group's collaborations sound like shotgun marriages. |
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Arranged marriages in which parents negotiated spouses, dowries, and inheritance for their children were once common but have declined. |
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It's a useful illustration of the conflicting views surrounding both dowries and forced marriages. |
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In the past, marriages were arranged and women brought a dowry to the marriage. |
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The most successful mixed marriages are those between educated individuals who have been brought up liberally and with religious tolerance. |
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The family patriarch makes all decisions regarding living arrangements, children's marriages, and money. |
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Sometimes people in the public limelight after a few marriages go off and get married. |
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They'll enjoy truly egalitarian marriages, sharing both the responsibility and the reward that comes with caring for others. |
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He asked about her marriages and, when her memory proved faulty, had the court reporter read her interrogation into the record. |
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Gay marriages are increasingly common whether or not they are formally recognized by the state. |
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Polygynous marriages were permitted where the husband had the means to pay the lobolo for each, and to maintain them properly. |
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Both traditional arranged marriages and modern marriages involve the lobola, or bride-price. |
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In arranged marriages, as in traditional western love marriages, both parties ultimately have the right to say no. |
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Divorce among Lebanese Americans is less common in arranged marriages than in marriages based on love. |
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Even in societies with arranged marriages, relatives of the couple do the arranging. |
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In arranged marriages, contact may be initiated by the couple, followed by negotiation between the two families. |
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It was indeed mentally invigorating to enter into a debate on arranged marriages versus love marriages. |
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We shared our views on the merits of Eastern arranged marriages versus love marriages in the West. |
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They reacted by urging the researchers not to confuse forced marriages with the traditional practice of arranged marriages. |
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Some religious denominations and churches recognize and perform gay marriages. |
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Festivals occurred frequently at the square during the Old Regime, notably on the occasion of the birth of the dauphin and for royal marriages. |
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For years he seems to have been content to play the indolent lounge lizard, and as a passive partner in four rather bossy marriages. |
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The two men had cited example after example of astrologically arranged marriages, full of astral promise, turning disastrous. |
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Most marriages today are based on romantic attachments rather than the arranged marriages that were the norm in the past. |
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The 1990s brought a movement for legalizing same-sex marriages, but it initially enjoyed little success. |
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The sanction of the proposed union by official state-appointed authorities is still a prominent feature of marriages. |
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It acknowledges the sapience of country to the extent that country is figured as a registry of births, marriages, deaths and other events. |
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Monarchs disputed successions and made political marriages in a relentless campaign for empire. |
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Problems such as these, as well as drastic cultural differences, have limited the number of marriages between Saudis and Americans. |
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Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks. |
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I imagine that sort of thing ruins lives, destroys marriages, tears families apart, and so on. |
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However, now it is common to find more than two marriages being held at the same venue with most halls boasting of an additional mandapam. |
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Until 1982, all marriages occurred in churches, but civil marriages have been legal since that time. |
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Religious marriages were celebrated, but the state recognized only civil marriages performed by civil officials. |
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In this modern day we seem drawn to marriages of convenience, whether it be for a passport or money. |
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Well, some of these will be temporary marriages that are really marriages of convenience, that probably won't last. |
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Stricter requirements have also been imposed to discourage marriages of convenience. |
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I know I'm not alone in this and came across a number of marriages of convenience while in the States. |
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On the whole these are not marriages of convenience or cynical efforts to create cover. |
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And yet, many of today's romance novels deal with marriages of convenience. |
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Important occasions like births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths were carefully recorded in their big black family bibles. |
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These rituals would often lead to matches and marriages, either immediately in the coming summer or autumn. |
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This was still a country of matchmakers and arranged marriages, and much pressure was brought to bear. |
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Traditionally, marriages were arranged by the couple's parents through a matchmaker. |
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Traditionally, marriages are arranged, generally through the mediation of a matchmaker. |
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Dating is not allowed, and marriages are arranged by the families or by matchmakers. |
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She said that because same-sex marriages aren't sanctioned, it's as though our society views her son as a second-class citizen. |
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Tales were told of playing hopscotch, tig and gerallies, of home births, courting and marriages. |
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A common belief is that marriages within the tight-knit community are for the good of the children. |
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Since the 1960s we have witnessed a precipitous increase in the number of marriages ending in divorce. |
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Marrying the two in a mutually beneficial collaboration seems a sensible solution and unlike most marriages, it needn't be expensive. |
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People with serial nonsacramental marriages are still free to marry in the church and enjoy the benefits of full communion. |
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At the age of 35, Lopez has totted up more than her fair share of broken marriages and relationships. |
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Sibling rivalries can cast a shadow on adulthood relationships within families, marriages, even work. |
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This is true, he says, despite the fact that almost one in three marriages eventually ends in divorce. |
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Gays who were once considered deviants can now benefit from the security of legally sanctioned marriages. |
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The Beth Din holds a large collection of material relating to marriages, divorces and some other material. |
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Food is important at ceremonial occasions such as naming ceremonies, betrothals, marriages, and deaths. |
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A study has found that more than 70 per cent of new marriages ends in a split and the child is a main reason for the break-up. |
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I've heard it argued that it shouldn't be easier for a priest to leave the active ministry than it is for laypeople to end their marriages. |
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This guy had been in and out of the big house more times then a Elizabeth Taylor had been in and out of marriages. |
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He fought to grant legal recognition to the marriages of slaves and free people of color. |
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How can any serious examination of mixed marriages fail to compare them with other marriages and cultural norms? |
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A large percentage of respondents objected to mixed marriages between ethnic Chinese Indonesians and indigenous Indonesians. |
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Do mixed marriages differ in specific domains of relationship satisfaction from marriages in which both partners belong to the same ethnic group? |
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Cross-cultural misunderstandings and tensions within these civil-military shotgun marriages have led many on both sides to long for a divorce. |
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The same dress code applies to marriages and funerals and normally applies to morning and evening prayer on Sundays. |
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His marriages are often mentioned and described as troubled, difficult, but no great detail about them is given. |
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Destination marriages are popular now, and some of these places have bugs the size of flying mice. |
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Although there are polygynous marriages in some Oriente ethnic groups, monogamy is the norm. |
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In a legal sense, most 20th-century marriages involved monogamous, heterosexual relationships. |
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With the exception of the rare polyandrous societies, virtually all women are in monogamous marriages. |
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To those choosing to marry someone of a different faith, such marriages have flourished and will continue to do so. |
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Topics include mothering, fathering, marriages, family group processes, sibling relations, and families. |
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We track Hemingway through his four marriages and considerable globe-hopping. |
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Most religions tend to proselytize and to accept or encourage marriages with converts, resulting in quite large, genetically diverse populations. |
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The way you model the distribution of chores in the household provides a blueprint for your children's marriages. |
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The plan aims to teach young, low-income couples the interpersonal skills necessary for healthy marriages. |
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The government has already begun a crackdown on bogus foreign language courses and sham marriages. |
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Most were offered jobs in the city or tricked into bogus marriages by procurers promising them a new life in India. |
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Gossip was exchanged and embellished, births, deaths and marriages were discussed and the price of bonhams and dropped calves were dissected. |
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But she said that while both parties consented to arranged marriages, forced unions were made under duress. |
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When you must make decisions about marriages, you are obliged to be consistent and principled. |
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In the past, most people had arranged marriages to someone of the same social class. |
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As judicious middle class social climbers, they are intent on providing their daughter and son with a good match for their marriages. |
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He says there has been a sea change in the societal attitude to love marriages in the past 10 years. |
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We support gay marriages, decriminalising soft drugs and prostitution, and decentralisation. |
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Although a rabbi was not needed to solemnize marriages, the rabbis suggest that their presence at weddings was desirable. |
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Throughout their relationship, they had been the main parents to four sons, all of whom had been conceived in previous marriages. |
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As loveless marriages go, it is threatening to become the most soul-destroying variety. |
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He said he had wanted to ask me out on a date when he was between marriages, but nixed the idea because my job made me too intimidating. |
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Laws against adultery are a natural outgrowth of laws and customs insisting that marriages be monogamous. |
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The dominant residence pattern is virilocal, and marriages are frequently polygynous. |
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I suspect that few American women, for instance, would be that inclined to enter into polygynous marriages. |
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By the same token, the marriages performed by wali hakim appointed by the government were then accepted as lawful. |
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I have half-brothers and half-sisters from my parents' previous marriages, and they're all much older than me. |
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This might seem unusual, yet something similar may well be obtaining in many marriages. |
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In polygamous marriages, each wife has her own apartment in a large family house. |
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Such marriages do not last longer than a year and then the hapless girls return with a child. |
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Blended families and stepfamilies with children from former marriages are becoming more common. |
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The first case emphasised the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural marriages. |
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He is married to a former model, with whom he has a son, a daughter, and a stepson from one of her three previous marriages. |
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I believe many marriages fail because people pull in their own directions, and not as the one flesh God says they are. |
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Because, after all, our marriages and partnerships are far too important to manage on our own. |
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In polygamous marriages, wives cooperate in performing household duties, although each rears her own children. |
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Sadly, our relationships and marriages have also changed their form, embracing more openness, as part of modernity. |
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He's had 3 open marriages, in which he lived with his wife and other girlfriend at the same time. |
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In our puritanical world, where marriages were arranged, romance was off limits. |
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I have asked many married couples I know whether they would, if given the option, trade in their marriages for a civil union. |
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Most spectacular in this period, however, were the marriages of European nobles to the heiresses of American millionaires. |
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While the hellraising days of alcohol-fuelled larrikinism and broken marriages might be behind him, at 70 he's on the road more often than not. |
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In June 2005, it became legal for a humanist celebrant to perform marriages. |
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Moreover, there was a significant turn away from religious weddings to marriages performed by civil celebrants. |
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Most of such defects are hereditary and due to marriages between close relations. |
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Formal rituals of courting, chaperonage, and arranged marriages strictly governed relations between the sexes. |
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A systematic search of parish registers of births, marriages and deaths, wills, and other sources would undoubtedly yield many more. |
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The state already has a statute banning recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions. |
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There were a total of 592 church marriages recorded in the county as opposed to 126 civil marriages. |
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The 1836 Marriage Act allowed for civil marriages in England for the first time, with the exemption of the royal family. |
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Provisions in the Act govern civil marriages and require no religious ritual or ceremony of any kind. |
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Legal objections centred on the Marriages Act of 1949, which updated the 1836 Marriage Act under which civil marriages were first allowed. |
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Around 20 couples have already expressed an interest in the ceremonies which will cost the same as civil marriages. |
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Three different types of marital union include church marriages, civil marriages, and consensual or common-law unions. |
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Given that lengthy list, I ask how anyone can possibly say that civil unions are not same-sex marriages. |
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Individual churches, synagogues, and temples could make their own rules about which marriages they would bless. |
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These exogamous marriages introduced the possibility of idolatry and syncretistic practices into the community. |
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In a system of patrilocal marriages, being attached to the family of origin was seen as bringing pain to all women. |
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He conducted wedding services, and when some of the marriages hit clinkers, he was a patient, extraordinarily attentive family counselor. |
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It's all lifestyle and marriages and illegitimate children and tears before bedtime. |
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What matters most is that their close families and friends fully support their marriages. |
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In the meantime, my college friends have embarked on their careers, marriages and families at home. |
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Cousin marriages between two adults are not, of course, incestuous in this sense. |
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Despite all that solicitude for the privacy of would-be spouses, the prohibition on incestuous marriages stands. |
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They also involved themselves in incestuous marriages in a like manner of the Pharaohs. |
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There are six men in the squad, and five of them saw their marriages or relationships come under severe pressure. |
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Sometimes, marriages of politicians are contracted with this regional complementation in mind. |
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After her first two failed marriages and her ex-husband's infidelities, she could not go down this road herself. |
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Among Indo-Fijians, feasting is associated with marriages and religious festivals. |
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Most such marriages, however irregular their original arrangements, were sooner or later accepted and sometimes even condoned by the king. |
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In the future, fights and disagreements between husbands and wives will simply result in the immediate end of their marriages. |
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At the moment, few topics polarize local Methodist conferences more than the question of same-sex marriages. |
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When nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, he asks why women are still in a state of collective pixilation about weddings. |
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Educators at public schools near polygamous communities walk a fine line to encourage children from plural marriages to attend school. |
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Besides consanguineous marriages, there are other reasons for a baby to be born with a defective heart. |
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People generally marry within their own religious sect and ethnic group, although interethnic marriages are not uncommon. |
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Even our own faith is in turmoil internally, split over same-sex marriages, divorce, gay priests, and more. |
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Louisbourg women usually contracted their first marriages at less than 20, a couple of years earlier than eighteenth-century Canadian women. |
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For soon, empirical evidence about actual marriages will exist to potentially controvert the predictions. |
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Most marriages are monogamous, although fraternal polyandry is permitted and is even considered to be prestigious. |
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I suspect that even fewer American men would be inclined to enter into polyandrous marriages. |
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Few could afford polygamous marriages, although polygamy varies both between rural areas and urban centers, and between ethnic groups. |
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These family compounds accommodate the large extended families and polygamous marriages that are common among the Maninka ethnic group. |
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Chances are the older the woman is, the more she has lost hope, suffered failure in relationships and marriages and is put upon by life. |
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Five young Asians told us how they are adopting the tradition of arranged marriages to suit their modern needs. |
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She grew up in a rarefied world of private girls' schools and arranged marriages. |
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It has come out of the real situation that I see around me, where marriages are failing. |
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However it failed to reach a decision on what to recommend on marriages involving in-laws. |
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Among other material now available online is Scotland's statutory registers of births, deaths and marriages along with wills and testaments. |
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In 1970, I filed the first-ever suit against the state of California seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages. |
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A city alderman performed the ceremony, but it was not officially registered as at present, in Holland, single person marriages are not legal. |
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Just as in a marriage relationship, if we seek our own well being, our marriages are wrecks. |
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Records are obtained from the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages in each state and territory. |
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In the Netherlands, registrars are the officials who preside over marriages. |
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Seamus was a County Council employee and the local registrar for births, marriages and deaths. |
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A superintendent registrar of births, marriages, and deaths had the duty of registering all marriages. |
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Massachusetts in 1842 became the first state to commence comprehensive registration of births, deaths, and marriages. |
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It works by allowing people to find the index number for births, marriages and deaths so they can order copies of the certificates they need. |
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She believed that the elderly lady, who seemed to govern decisions about her grandchildren's forthcoming marriages, was usurping her position in the family. |
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He has only turned down a few weddings, claiming to perform around 80 percent of the prison marriages in the Los Angeles area. |
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The theme of a pushy mum endeavoring to wed her daughters to rich suitors fits naturally into an Indian setting where arranged marriages have much scope for comedy. |
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Edwards weighs in against gay marriages and school vouchers, in favor of affirmative action and against caps on jury awards in medical malpractice cases. |
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This Post-it note marriage would prove to be stronger than many of the real marriages on the show. |
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In the absence of directly comparing mixed and monoethnic marriages, it is difficult to determine if couples in mixed marriages actually experience higher levels of distress. |
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But he did not condemn the arranged marriages that our royal family go in for, or those marriages of the upper classes that make sure the inheritance stays in the right hands. |
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Many of the legal consequences of marriage have now been applied even to void unions, and virtually all marriages are open to dissolution even if only one spouse wishes it. |
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Her goal is to help women achieve healthy and long-lasting marriages, although the corollary implication is that women are responsible for failed relationships. |
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He also encouraged marriages between Hindu Rajputs and Muslims. |
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For most people, these changes are extremely liberating, and marriages that succeed can be much more rewarding and fulfilling than those of the past. |
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The four known marriages for this generation were at roughly the same age between 1790 and 1795, and in 1803 at least four of the five actors were working as cordwainers. |
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Marriage was a key issue in the last election, with Massachusetts' gay marriages becoming a symbol of alleged blue state decadence and moral decay. |
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Often slovenly and untidy, she dressed to draw attention to her figure, and the history of her love affairs and marriages provided a basis for much talk. |
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Half of all marriages will ultimately end in divorce, and a fifth of all marriages will end in five years, giving rise to the current popular term, starter marriage. |
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The influence of royal wives on their husbands' religious observances suggests the power that women exercised, even within the context of arranged political marriages. |
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This mixed marriages act posed yet another problem for us as our marriage was not recognised nor was our daughter recognised for inheritance purposes. |
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North Carolina resoundingly defeated a referendum to legalize such marriages on Tuesday. |
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In many European countries, such as Spain, cross-border marriages have become popular. |
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In India arranged marriages are very much the norm, and the joint family, where a man and a woman live intimately with his extended family, is still a powerful institution. |
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And yes, this sort of made Jason her stepbrother in both marriages. |
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The couple have been to Christchurch twice before and spent a great deal of time on the last visit researching marriages and death records, wills and shipping records. |
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He certainly secured advantageous marriages for his children and, despite a sometimes rough and ready personal manner, he attracted numerous clients. |
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Most marriages in the world are arranged by family members or matchmakers, and in many of these, partners somehow learn to love each other over time. |
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When marriages fail, the deadbeat dad is the norm in American society, not the exception. |
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His subsequent marriages were primarily to form alliances with his nearest and dearest as well as with more remote followers. |
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Marriages are usually arranged, and cross-cousin marriages are preferred. |
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Some of these provide rich discussions from which to draw, but many do not, In these cases, Rose reads discussions of related issues cleverly to infer about mixed marriages. |
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The Roman alphabet replaced Arabic writing, the state became exclusively secular, monogamous marriages were introduced, and education was secularized. |
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Yet the existence of cultural diversity did not lead them to view their own preference for monogamous marriages as a matter of opinion or local cultural taste. |
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No different from those who have open marriages are active swingers or cheaters. |
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The rate of mixed marriages increased, although they accounted for under 15 per cent of marriages by Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Algerians. |
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One learns of romantic attachments and failed marriages, of career successes and business failures, of committed lives and struggles with alcoholism. |
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This is somewhat problematic within the larger community because new generations and the non-Estonian spouses of mixed marriages have a hard time understanding Estonian. |
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So should we shelve the personal-empowerment movement if we want to have long and happy marriages? |
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Straight couples will see that their own marriages were somehow not sullied after all. |
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If the White Paper becomes legislation, paper certificates for births, marriages and deaths will be replaced in a few years by a central computerised database. |
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A further reason is that the Church claims jurisdiction over such mixed marriages, institutes diriment impediments to them, and grants dispensations. |
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Several other works allude to the importance of family connections among artists in Rome that were made through workshops, collaborations, friendships, and marriages. |
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The clergyman participates in marriages chiefly as a witness. |
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The key consideration in war-torn Gaelic society was that marriages should seal important political and military alliances between the chieftains' dynasties. |
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In case you've not seen it yet the story focuses on a group of middle class middle American housewives and their marriages, affairs, divorces and neuroses. |
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But then we think back again to the parish register, a source of information on christenings, marriages and burials going back to the 16th century. |
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The sanctity of heterosexual marriages has not been destroyed. |
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The children of these mixed marriages are not a homogeneous lot. |
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Mixed race marriages are less common than many like to think. |
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They conveniently ignore the fact that there is a distinct difference between religious and civil marriages and that California recognizes common-law relationships. |
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In contrast, older people living in stable marriages are prevented from taking communion simply because their union has not been blessed in church. |
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The women are punished for refusing arranged marriages, or if their family fails to produce a promised dowry, or who in some way bring dishonour on their family. |
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General Eric Holder announced that the DOJ will recognize same-sex marriages in all jurisdictions. |
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The landmark decision sets an important legal precedent and will send shivers down the spine of wealthy entrepreneurs whose marriages are under threat. |
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Of course this is notwithstanding that failure to receive dispensation from form invalidates marriages where diriment impediments are not present. |
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The code prohibited polygamous marriages and forced marriage for girls, established a minimum age for marriage, and required judicial divorce rather than repudiation. |
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I got updates on their love life, and learned whose marriages are on the rocks. |
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All this furore about same-sex marriages seems a storm in a teacup to me. |
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A clear reading of the law shows that these are sham marriages. |
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Official marriages, officiated by either religious authorities or by municipal clerks or judges, must be dissolved by the legal procedure of divorce. |
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This degree of control over the inheritances and marriages of the wealthiest people in the kingdom meant that the king's powers of patronage were immense. |
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With a media blitz on who's dating whom, broken engagements, new engagements, marriages, and annulments, the world has seemed to turn its focus on love. |
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Comes word that the National Cathedral, an episcopal Church, will start to perform same-sex marriages. |
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In order to ensure her ability to earn a living, she must relocate, abandon her children, and deny her previous marriages, all in order to secure her marketability as a wife. |
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It is anyway a false distinction to divide marriages into the happy and the unhappy, and to say that when they are happy, ownership is unimportant. |
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We've all heard the statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce. |
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Polls have indicated that support for legally recognizing gay marriages has grown in Canada to include approximately 50 per cent of the population. |
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Many marriages today are experiencing severe strain but that does not mean that the only solution is to eventually put an end to it by resorting to divorce. |
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Many of these unions grew into happy and successful marriages. |
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It's only a matter of time before societal ills, unhappy marriages, unsightly fatties and the concerns about those concerns, are a thing of the past. |
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I danced into the morning to celebrate the coming-of-age of young men and fell asleep in a dark hut while marriages and deaths were commemorated in song. |
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In principle, one should not marry a blood relative, but in small communities marriages between kin more distantly related than first cousins are common. |
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And then there's the conflict avoider marriages, where it's just too punishing for them to disagree on anything so they just tiptoe around the subjects. |
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She is compulsively driven to arrange marriages for her two nieces. |
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What this means is that in the next generation, many marriages made by Orthodox Beth Dins that employ governmental pressure on a husband to give a GET will produce children. |
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That is, family lines should be known well enough to prevent marriages within the forbidden degrees and to determine blood and family obligations. |
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Underlying all of this legal maneuvering is the social fact that marriages are hard to undo. |
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Absent magic, we get conniving politicians, close-minded scolds, flavorless marriages, and the occasional heroin junkie. |
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Almost no marriages in the two data sets, however, represent the actions of a confidence man or woman who maintained several households simultaneously. |
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So football imitates life and the healthiest managerial marriages are those that stick together in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer. |
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Thus, just as in the American South, Cherokee lawmakers would prohibit legal marriages between slaves and free people to preserve the institution of slavery. |
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Gone are the cheerful sham marriages held up as totems for the rest of us to emulate. |
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It makes feasible the analysis of multilocus data observed on general pedigrees containing possibly consanguineous marriages and missing information. |
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The American Presbyterian Church recently approved gay marriages. |
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With three consanguineous marriages of monarchs in only five generations, it could be said that the royal blood was running a bit thin in Britain. |
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The move to use Windsor guildhall also met with problems when it emerged that, under the rules governing civil marriages, members of the public must be allowed to attend. |
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Given the size of the Hispanic population and the forecast for growth in the coming decades, interethnic marriages are expected to increase as well. |
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I know there are those amongst you who are in marriages of convenience. |
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With 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, monogamy may seem like impossible ideal. |
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Like all marriages of convenience, I'll give it two years, tops. |
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No other Labour minister could have got away with challenging arranged marriages without being accused of unwarranted intrusion into the customs of Asian communities. |
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In the space of only a generation, the family had gone from the world of oxen and arranged marriages to the world of cell phones and multicultural love matches. |
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Prosecutors have said that they investigated Green's marriages only after seeing him on several national television programmes talking about plural marriages. |
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This led him into a succession of alliances that were often marriages of convenience, as he tried to make his cooperative movement central to whatever form of society emerged. |
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Specifically, arranged marriages take place in societies where the extended family is both the basic social unit, and the basic economic unit, of the culture. |
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The fact that more marriages fail than what actually succeed seems to show that marriage, and monogamy, is fast becoming an outdated lifestyle choice. |
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In 1904 church President Joseph F. Smith presented a second manifesto that disciplined those who continued to practice polygamy or perform plural marriages. |
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One in ten women live in polygamous marriages, although the practice of polygamy was banned under the Civil Code of 1926 modeled on the Swiss Civil Code of that time. |
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Many matches and marriages came out of working in the factory. |
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Haryana panchayats are known for many notorious decisions related to inter-caste marriages. |
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In total, there are 84 synagogues in Northern England registered for marriages. |
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And two-thirds of the marriages in Fairfield County end in divorce. |
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After three failed marriages I realised that I may have been barking up the wrong tree and should abandon the search for the perfect wife. |
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Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst. |
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Late in 1997 the entire family returned to India to arrange the marriages of Nimrat's brothers and cousin-sister. |
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Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society. |
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In Goa, a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption. |
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William and his barons also exercised tighter control over inheritance of property by widows and daughters, often forcing marriages to Normans. |
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Several marriages are attested between Norman men and English women during the years before 1100, but such marriages were uncommon. |
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Most Normans continued to contract marriages with other Normans or other continental families rather than with the English. |
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Meanwhile, Henry was attempting to act the part of a legitimate king, witnessing marriages and settlements and holding court in a regal fashion. |
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Henry is best known for his six marriages and, in particular, his efforts to have his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, annulled. |
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Interracial marriages are getting more common these days thanks to globalization. |
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Throughout Mary's childhood, Henry negotiated potential future marriages for her. |
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At court, while her father was between marriages and without a consort, Mary acted as hostess. |
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He was the youngest of five sons born to Catherine Champernowne in two successive marriages. |
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According to the Pew Research Center, the state has the highest concentration of black and white interracial marriages. |
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The marriage question was settled in 1837, by allowing local government registrars to handle marriages. |
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With capital accumulated from his two marriages and his inheritance from his father, Boulton sought a larger site to expand his business. |
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An exception to her independence was the right to choose a marriage partner, as marriages were normally arranged by the clan. |
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Similarly, civil law may give force in its field to canon law, but only by specific enactment, as with regard to canonical marriages. |
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All clergy, whether deacons, priests or bishops, may preach, teach, baptise, witness marriages and conduct funeral liturgies. |
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The church conducts 75 percent of all marriages and 99 percent of all funerals. |
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The British then opened up their schools to children from English mixed marriages, or to those with English descent. |
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Her parents had each been married previously and been widowed, and, consequently, the household contained the children of three marriages. |
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After the affair ended, her love for him continued, though she had two subsequent marriages, both to gay Englishmen. |
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