| Her family apparently informed her they had agreed to the arranged marriage and that lobola of seven cattle had already been paid. |
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| Some vestiges of arranged marriage continue and many couples rely on matchmakers to find mates. |
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| It is understood that one of her difficulties related to an arranged marriage. |
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| On one end there is pure arranged marriage and on the other is speed dating. |
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| A young Asian mother who went along with an arranged marriage to keep her family happy took her own life after years of depression. |
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| In an effort to annul an arranged marriage, Apu tells his mother he wed Marge. |
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| I think there's a world of difference between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage. |
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| As an awkward, homely young woman, the Marquesa was forced into an arranged marriage. |
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| The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah is raised in great luxury, but balks at the arranged marriage her father has planned for her. |
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| Like many other crowned heads, Philip lived in a dynastically arranged marriage with a wife for whom he had no affection. |
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| According to Vietnamese law, arranged marriage and polygamy are illegal. |
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| Liz comforts herself by ferreting out an Indian teenager who's troubled about her impending arranged marriage. |
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| Even before her arranged marriage at the age of fourteen, Huma had been kidnapped, raped and abused by her husband-to-be, a Taliban fighter. |
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| It is clear that it was a love match and not an arranged marriage. |
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| If a girl refuses an arranged marriage, coercion may stop short of actual violence, but there is always the fear of ostracism. |
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| André has raised Mounir since childhood and is in a phony arranged marriage with his sister. |
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| A forced marriage is very different from an arranged marriage in which the free and informed consent of both parties is present. |
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| By 1988, the Forintek partnership had evolved enormously from the arranged marriage which the federal government had engineered a decade earlier. |
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| Those who had an arranged marriage would get together when they became of age. |
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| Even if a woman was screaming and crying because she didn't want a husband, she would be taken away for an arranged marriage. |
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| For example, an arranged marriage may appear at first glance to be a form of trafficking. |
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| Betrothed to each other in infancy, they flee their kingdoms instead of facing the prospect of an arranged marriage. |
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| In a society where arranged marriage is the norm, and deployed by families to maintain divisions of class and caste, romantic love is potentially highly transgressive. |
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| In preparation for her arranged marriage with Curlin, Rachel Alexandra will appear in a photo spread in the August issue of Vogue. |
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| The actress teamed up with detectives hunting the killer they believe claimed the life of an Asian teenager who turned down her suitor for an arranged marriage. |
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| Naz, who underwent an arranged marriage in Pakistan at the age of 15 and had two children, had returned to Britain and become pregnant by her childhood sweetheart. |
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| She became an overnight sensation in 1991 with her album Moussolou, which contained outspoken lyrics about female sensuality, polygamy and arranged marriage. |
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| The feminists who rail against arranged marriage and the veil. |
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| In 2004, the first conviction in a forced marriage case occurred when a father was sentenced to one year in prison for forcing his 15 year old daughter into an arranged marriage. |
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| Set in 17th-century Amsterdam during an age of Calvinism and repression, The Miniaturist was about a loveless arranged marriage and the eerie incidents connected with a dollhouse purchased to divert the new bride. |
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| He disapproved of arranged marriage and polygamy, advocated access to women education, he admitted some terrorist actions of the eighties... so the country opened up. |
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| The plaintiff was told that she must submit to an arranged marriage yet she repeatedly told her parents and friends she did not want to go through with it. |
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| It has also organised a conference on forced or arranged marriage. |
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| Though it was an arranged marriage, they were faithful and devoted partners. |
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| In 1905 he entered an arranged marriage against his will. |
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| The treaty would be sealed by the arranged marriage of John's son Edward and Philip's niece Joan. |
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| It was really weird – almost like an arranged marriage. |
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| In the third slice of cartoon action, Apu tells his mother he is married to Marge in an effort to wriggle out of an arranged marriage. |
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| People are still being forced into arranged marriage just about everywhere in the world, even though I have to say there are actually less and less arranged marriages in Senegal now. |
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| No, because it was a love match, not an arranged marriage. |
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| A forced marriage must be distinguished from an arranged marriage, where both parties fully and freely consent to the marriage, although their families take a leading role in the choice of partner. |
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| When John II learned of this arranged marriage he was outraged. |
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| The Arranged Marriage that Ended Happily Ever After Mira Jacob, Vogue How my parents fell in love, 30 years later. |
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