Switzerland has long been a patriarchal society where women submit to the authority of their fathers and then to that of their husbands. |
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Spare a thought for all those wives, husbands and children who this weekend will be saying their goodbyes. |
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These women went against the wishes of their husbands to come to this meeting. |
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My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all the families who have lost sons and husbands, fathers, brothers. |
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The statuesque actress, who counts Sylvester Stallone among her previous husbands, has made her vows with her Italian boyfriend. |
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They, who had had careers and their own money, were reduced to baby-sitters and had to ask their husbands for money. |
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Women apply kumkum on the foreheads of their sons and husbands and send them to fight battles. |
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They were the husbands and sons of Sarah's neighbors, and in many cases were related by blood or marriage. |
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Widows seeking the restitution of their dowries after their husbands died, for example, frequently litigated in the secular courts. |
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Brides are expected to bring substantial dowries with them and to defer to their husbands in most matters. |
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There were also claims that husbands brought their wives to institutions just to be rid of them. |
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Strange how Karen wanted a house with a garden and yet, like so many husbands, I do all the work. |
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The woman who lost two husbands and two sons to violent deaths has now come across another formidable foe in this legendary police roundsman. |
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What about the countless German families who lost their sons and husbands during the conflict? |
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Grief and pride bind the families who lost their sons, fathers, brothers, or husbands to war. |
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Well, my two husbands were the sum of my love life and both of them were incredibly loving. |
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They have stayed stubbornly low-profile despite their high-flying husbands. |
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When the Sabines later attacked Rome, the women ran onto the battlefield and secured peace between their fathers and husbands. |
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In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice. |
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Because they're distrusted by wives and lusted after by husbands, single moms are usually pariahs. |
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It is in the next generation that Moore's story really comes into its own, with the maharanis, rather than their husbands, in the foreground. |
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Maidens and bachelors who want husbands and wives can dance for their mates. |
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The third supervises the tavern and the food and drink being served by her husbands. |
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Marriage as it stands is good for children, good for husbands and bad for wives. |
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The marital embrace is the culmination of the total self-giving of husbands and wives. |
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These then become extended families around a grandmother, her husband, and her married daughters and their husbands. |
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I have had no luck convincing my American women friends to divorce their husbands and marry me. |
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We interpret this as evidence that the desire for boys lead some husbands to marry another woman if his first wife delivers a girl. |
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For years they have enjoyed lives of luxury bankrolled by the illicit gains of their wealthy criminal husbands. |
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Conversely, husbands who were having extramarital affairs also tended to batter their wives. |
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A group dedicated to helping husbands stop battering their wives has re-opened its helpline. |
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A survey by the women's federation covering 384 families found that around 250 wives were being menaced, insulted or cursed by their husbands. |
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The Beguines were free to leave the beguinage and resume their old lives when their husbands returned from war. |
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Several examples provide illustration about how Methodist women recruited their husbands to the church. |
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In town, most women do domestic chores and child care while their husbands are at work. |
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Some of these men are looking for wives with traditional values, and some of these women are looking for husbands with economic security. |
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No murders or missing persons, though, because more than 90 per cent of his work was trailing wives or husbands suspected of having an affair. |
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A great challenge for the Beth Din of America were those missing husbands whose remains were not found. |
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On every page there are unhappy husbands, bewildered boyfriends, disappointed lovers and delusional relatives. |
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Apparently the first wives of bigamists did not always care to chase down their absconding husbands. |
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Aurora, given the chance to be true to herself, rather than to her trio of husbands, turns out to be a world-class minx. |
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They told police that a financial dispute between their husbands led to arguments that ended in the shoot-out. |
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These were more traditionally expected from mistresses, wives, and mothers than from masters, husbands, and fathers. |
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So there have been films with killer babysitters, killer roommates, killer mothers-in-law, killer husbands, etc. |
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Elegant ladies sported blow-up crowns, their husbands carried discarded necklaces and flags indulgently. |
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There are fathers, brothers and uncles and husbands and wives working for the company. |
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These messages often sink deep into our unconscious mind, waiting to pop up when we become wives or husbands ourselves. |
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These undivided properties are handed down to the girls but may be used by their brothers or husbands to provide for the household. |
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I must not use it to put curses on unfaithful husbands, or make a married man fall in love with someone. |
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The remainder continue their unmaidenly journey in search of husbands, whom they find waiting in cheerful readiness in almost any marsh. |
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The novel employs multiple narrators, including not only the three major characters but also their husbands, children, and parents. |
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My father, brothers, husbands, son, daughters and sons-in-law have all served or are now serving in uniform. |
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In this period women seem increasingly prone to protect their property rights against wasteful husbands, sons, or sons-in-law. |
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Lots of husbands and wives have their own special song that reminds them of each other. |
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Dave and Paula will be appearing on a show devoted to wives telling how their husbands have developed obsessions. |
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It is reassuring to know that the Scottish Executive husbands the expenditure it makes on our behalf so wisely. |
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Women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands and brothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare. |
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All the husbands started ganging up then and demanding the right to a voice in my column. |
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It is common for customers' husbands or wives to pick up pieces to surprise their spouses when they get home. |
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In Amsterdam, public notaries regularly recorded women's statements about the insulting maltreatment of their husbands. |
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Cartoons were once populated by henpecked husbands and conniving wives in hair curlers. |
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Dr. Das Dasgupta said that women are pressured and harassed by husbands demanding that their wives give birth to boys. |
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Unlike the threatened Stepford men, modern husbands are not turned off by women who can succeed at work. |
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My first thoughts were to advise all my single friends to stay away from careerist husbands. |
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They saw themselves not as independent thinkers but as helpmates and surrogates to absent husbands and fathers. |
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More than likely their husbands were perfectly decent, long-suffering, henpecked men. |
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These broads have been forcibly celibate for decades after their husbands dump them. |
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They had control of the home while their husbands were away, and were responsible for the keys to their property, strongbox and resources. |
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We have outlived all our brothers and sisters and their wives and husbands. |
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The demographics of participants in this study reflect current population demographics in which women outlive their husbands and then live alone. |
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I don't drink because I see a lot of people, they get hidings from their husbands. |
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Girls grew up knowing that they had to be hardworking and submissive so that they could find good husbands who would take good care of them. |
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To say that they left it to the husbands does not mean to say either they did not understand what was happening or that their will was overborne. |
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They continued to be treated as chattel, to be bought and sold by fathers, brothers and husbands. |
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And chivalrous men become burdened by feelings of guilt and shame when they hear stories of husbands who beat up their wives. |
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The place is chocka with embarrassed new husbands in ill-fitting dinner jackets. |
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Women achievers, however, find it difficult to find men willing to sacrifice their careers to become house husbands. |
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The custom ranges from puppy love cards given to kindergarten classmates to diamond earrings presented by husbands to their wives. |
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Just goes to show, you should never use your husbands name as a password to administer a poll. |
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Not to mention any number of grouchy patriarchal husbands and avid sugar daddies. |
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Women are often closet gamblers and their husbands and families are the last to know about the addiction. |
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Women normally adopt a deferential attitude toward men, especially to their husbands and fathers-in-law. |
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For the most part, this was also a group of family men, husbands and fathers, typically with several children. |
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I know women who have been told by their husbands that they no longer love or fancy them. |
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The children feasted on hot dogs, barbecued by their childminders' husbands. |
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Who we wind up with, the husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends and partners and longtime companions are the real heroes of the story. |
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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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In these smaller conjugal families, the roles of husbands and wives feature greater equality and more sharing of responsibilities. |
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But are we a little too warm-hearted when we think about sending wives and husbands behind the wall to defend conjugal rights? |
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The action for loss of consortium in a sense would become irrelevant so far as concerns husbands and wives. |
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In some cases, it was the first time that even wives got to know what their husbands were up to. |
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So husbands, don't groan next time your wife says the guttering needs fixing. |
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Because brides often converted to the faith of their husbands, all of the major religions within Lebanon competed for converts to their faith. |
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And wives don't find flatulence as entertaining or savory as their husbands believe. |
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With women finding themselves pushing their way up the social ladder, husbands are now okay with playing the perfect foil. |
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It does make her cross now when young women moan about their husbands being away for three months. |
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While he fears that all women will cuckold their husbands, Eliot's work answers such prevalent misogyny by revealing its other side. |
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Italian women who stay at home and work while their husbands ogle beauties on the beaches are increasingly cuckolding their spouses. |
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We need you to defend us against the barbs from these jealous frumps, and their unhappy husbands. |
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Then Geoffrey of London, a young gadabout whose taste runs to older women, and who has various angry husbands and boyfriends on his trail. |
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The accusations could involve prenuptial relations, bridal pregnancy, adultery and severe maltreatment of wives and husbands also. |
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The Irish in Australia did not occupy ghettoes, and Irishwomen were particularly likely to marry non-Irish husbands. |
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So are women who fight rich husbands for half their wealth gold-diggers trading on someone else's genius, or trail-blazers for female equality? |
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She often kept the gossip mill busy with stories of her publicly fighting with her various husbands. |
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Today, instead of sending hired gumshoes after cheating husbands and wives, we can turn our homes into high-tech surveillance staging grounds. |
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Wives of seamen could only visit their husbands when his ship docked at its home port. |
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Women who earn more than their husbands are said to be a threat to their spouses' pride and mental equilibrium. |
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Our husbands and partners, she declares, have been domesticated to the point of emasculation. |
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In macho country, here she was living under the same roof at the same time with three husbands, each of whom had fathered children by her. |
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In contrast to their male counterparts, female martyrs are not promised virgins, but reunification with earthly husbands. |
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There are also the typical DD telefilms featuring drunken husbands and harassed wives, or women collectors in district bungalows being leered at by local goons. |
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Members' husbands listed in city directories included lawyers and doctors but also grocers and dealers in dry goods, hardware, farm implements, and buggies. |
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The most obvious being their unfaithful husbands, but that really is the least of it. |
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How many husbands, wives, sons, and daughters have we lost to a broken system? |
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How monumental, though, that this wedding introduced us, for the first time as husbands, Mitch and cam. |
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Ever the charmer, Hice just thinks they should get the permission of their husbands before they do much of anything. |
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There is no need to describe in intricate detail the debilitating obstacle course Indonesian women and their foreign husbands must negotiate in pursuit of wedded bliss. |
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Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff. |
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Wives wear mourning for the relatives of their husbands precisely as they would for their own, as would husbands for the relatives of their wives. |
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Rural communities were exogamous, patrilocal, and patriarchal, with newly married women subservient in the families of their husbands until they had borne sons. |
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While many turn their paychecks over to their husbands, others rebel, demanding the family's few spare cents go to pencils for the kids rather than cigarettes. |
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Numerous people wept for their friends, husbands, parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, siblings and in some distressing cases, young sons and daughters. |
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Certainly it is very common for wives to have intimate knowledge of the work memo stylings of their husbands and can vouch for their reliability 30 years after the fact. |
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Wives help their husbands plant yams and harvest corn, beans, and cotton. |
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Do they see that we love our wives and husbands unfeignedly? |
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Before long, their husbands were too busy trying to seduce their wives to keep up clashes. |
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Although the Lapith women do not seek husbands, they are assaulted by the Centaurs at a wedding and are defended by the heroic, athletic Lapiths, overseen by the god Apollo. |
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Daughters who elope and dare to choose their own husbands are also considered dishonorable. |
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Recently I was idly passing my time waiting in a shopping centre car park, a favourite haunt of husbands on Saturday mornings while their wives engage in retail therapy. |
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When their husbands died in the battles and enemies invaded their forts, they would enkindle wood fire and jump into it to join their husbands in the next world. |
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Women in eye-popping African prints pose for pictures taken by their sisters or husbands. |
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In 35 years she has survived a suicide attempt, racism, an abusive father, a stalker, two unfaithful husbands and a series of disastrous relationships. |
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Women pawned their husbands suits every week just to get money for food. |
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She converted to her husbands religion about four years before she died. |
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Thirteen illegal husbands later, she divorced her real spouse, before another genuine marriage in 1995 just eight weeks after her decree absolute. |
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It's mothers drowning their kids and husbands shooting their wives. |
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Slot machines had always been the bottom feeder section of the casinos, the place where husbands sent their wives while they went and lost at roulette. |
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If the gov't wants to listen to me and my friends plan dinners and gripe about our husbands, go for it. |
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And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity. |
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If the wreath stuck, they were in luck and their husbands would be good. |
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Particularly as the children all came from families where the husbands were new men and did the cooking and changed nappies, and the women held down professional jobs. |
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Why, one might ask, are the matrons of this little village procuring the potions of a black-clad spinster to poison their lumpen, ruddy old husbands? |
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What heart without evaporating in sighs can ponder the burden of deepest sorrows and lamentations of parents, children, husbands, wives, kinsmen, friends. |
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The phones are registered only in the name of women but they are also operated by their husbands and sons and shared out in the village at a few taka per call. |
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The recession means wives are under pressure from their husbands who tell them a sitter is now a luxury they can't afford. |
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She said that women desire control and sovereignty over their husbands. |
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In such households husbands are often abroad for long periods. |
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My innocent pleasure in those evenings shattered when a local gossip spread the word that I was on the prowl for other women's husbands, one in particular. |
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What is it about this time of the year that encourages normally passive shoppers, like husbands and brothers, suddenly to descend on the shops in search of all kinds of gifts? |
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And most working wives, even career women, will tell you that they continue to do much more of the homemaking and the child rearing than their husbands. |
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Experts explained that Japan confronted the same problem during its period of rapid economic growth, with many husbands too worn out at work to satisfy their wives. |
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All three husbands had been drunk when they violated their wives. |
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If you view all cheating husbands as subhuman, her assessment is to be expected, but I found the comment startling. |
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Violent husbands offer excuses that range from the wife not doing housework, her frequent visits to her parents' home, or refusing the husband's request for sexual congress. |
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For most of history, the subordination of wives to husbands was enforced by law and custom. |
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The only time that Melville allows the three husbands something for themselves is the opening of the second act, when they discuss the prospects of matrimony with her. |
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Kara and Janet were only there as designated drivers, they usually popped around when they had thought their husbands would be needing a lift home. |
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Six wives said their husbands had threatened to do violence to their children or to their parents and five had been threatened by their husbands with lethal weapons. |
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We extend a welcome to all you women who constantly nag your husbands to complete those unfinished jobs, now is your chance to learn the skills yourself. |
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I wonder if IT support men really are house husbands who work from home? |
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I think my nag-a-minute methods are mild to say the least, because some women are now, apparently, attempting to house-train their husbands using dog training techniques. |
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Has Ramon considered the fact that more than a few of them might be very lonely people, frustrated housewives with psychotic husbands or just nutters? |
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In a true moment of TMI, Dash shared with Williams her penchant for sleeping with potential husbands on the first date. |
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The play tells the story of three widows who form The Cemetery Club, meeting every week to visit their late husbands, remember the good times and have a gossip. |
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Too much booze, pressure from friends as well as a sense of losing your freedom can drive many future husbands to stray on their stag nights. |
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Like in hundreds of homes husbands wait with trepidation for walk-wives to say, coming for a chukker of the park. |
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If God had wanted house husbands he wouldn't have made men look silly in aprons. |
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This may have been an accubitum with magical qualities of procreation for sterile husbands who slept on this stone. |
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In contrast, the report found that house husbands are generally much less happy. |
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Legal divorce, usually rare, was granted to Patriot women whose husbands supported the King. |
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In addition, many women contributed to the war effort through fundraising and running family businesses in the absence of husbands. |
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The women were all spared but their screams on seeing their husbands and sons butchered, were most painful. |
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The Married Persons Equality Act 2006 gives equal rights to wives in regard to their husbands, abolishing the husband's marital power. |
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And what about the husbands? Yes, these yearned-for women were, in many cases, married, but you never get these schmos' side of the story. |
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Fatima and Aisha have little choice but to obey their husbands. |
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel. |
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Or the husbands getting antsy about their women being too busy fighting to put dinner on the table. |
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At last he took a third york. She was a foolish young thing, but very fond of him... he paid her more attention than the generality of husbands. |
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However, men are not always tameable and wives keep cats to divert their attention when their husbands go wild. |
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This is because the law does not automatically recognise cohabitants as having the same rights as husbands, wives and civil partners. |
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We existed before house husbands, computer dating, dual careers and when a meaningful relationship meant getting along with cousins. |
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The women were on average ten years younger than their husbands and were employed as waitresses, domestics, and salesladies. |
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As Janet and Nicole got older, the penpals talked about everything from meeting their husbands to films and fashion. |
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Professor Rennie warned the strain of staying at home could take its toll on men who have no choice about becoming house husbands. |
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When elderly husbands are caring for demented wives, the experience of caregiving is paradoxical. |
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Thus, women in monogamous marriages tend to have many children intended to stop their husbands from being polygynists. |
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Members of civil rights group Let's Save Togo told their husbands there would be no nooky while Faure Gnassingbe was in office. |
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Yep, boyfriends and husbands, prepare to be shushed and shoo'ed away from the television every Saturday night for the foreseeable future. |
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In the throes of insatiable envy, they bullied their husbands into becoming effete cogs, Whyte's Organization Men. |
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Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. |
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Thus it can be presumed that ancient Germanic brides were on average about twenty and were roughly the same age as their husbands. |
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Their useful economic roles gave them a sort of equality with their husbands. |
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The power structure of the family is being shared by wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. Both hold the purse strings. |
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There existed destructive female demons called parik, whose husbands were known as kaj. |
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In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch. |
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Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves. |
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Fathers usually began seeking husbands for their daughters when these reached an age between twelve and fourteen. |
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A prayer was then offered for the husbands speedy death, the sorcerer earnestly watching the flower. |
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Goneril and Regan are to share half the island with their husbands, the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall. |
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Soon Goneril and Regan and their husbands rebel and take the whole kingdom. |
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The players' wives have also been a focus for the cameras, as they cheered or screeched on their husbands. |
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In this light also women may be regarded, the interests of almost all of whom are involved in that of their fathers or in that of their husbands. |
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What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day? |
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Among Puritan settlers in New England, wives almost never worked in the fields with their husbands. |
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The role of wives was to raise and nurture healthy children and support their husbands. |
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Wives and husbands often worked as a team and taught their children their crafts to pass it on through the family. |
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Therefore, along with their husbands, women used family meal times to discuss religious topics and to focus on prayer. |
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Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands. |
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Originally polygamy could work both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands. |
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Economic independence both improves self esteem and relieves the psychologic and economic pressure arising from her dependancy to their husbands or fathers. |
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Many husbands, like the wives-in-law themselves, were deeply divided and upset over a family life that could no longer be defined as a single unit. |
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That's not to mention a senior nurse who steals husbands, bonks surgeons in the medicine cupboard and has recently been attacked by a psychotic doctor with a drink problem. |
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Apart from the fact it has stopped countless women accusing their husbands of assault with a dead weapon, the famous love drug has also spawned a million jokes. |
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And within the Moliere canon, there aren't many hypocrites, misanthropes, suspicious husbands or would-be wife imprisoners that the Yorkshire-born Bedford hasn't sampled. |
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John Adams, whose relationship with Abigail Adams is supposed to be a shining example of spousedom, mansplained the need to make husbands the legal masters of wives. |
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New husbands are required to perform bride-service and maintain uxorilocal residence, at least in a formal sense, before bridewealth is completed. |
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In the meantime, their husbands are at work or idle with their agemates. |
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From the antics of adulterous lovers to the revenge of cuckolded husbands, the characters remain as engaging and recognisable today as they were in the 14th century. |
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In fact, it was not unknown for husbands and wives to collude in the wife's adultery, either to collect a large crim. con. settlement or to secure a divorce. |
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The two sisters have left home and live with their undomineering husbands. |
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Free and independent electresses might object to be set in the forefront of the battle to shield their husbands and brothers from consabulary buckshot. |
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They don't lie down before their husbands and let them walk all over them. |
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People should not marry too young, because, if they do, the children will be weak and female, the wives will become wanton, and the husbands stunted in their growth. |
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Before easy divorce, house husbands, maternity leave, disposable nappies, dual careers, computers, young men with earrings and old men with ponytails. |
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This paper explores the evidence of an early social custom, Skimmington, whereby husbands who had been beaten by their wives were publicly humiliated. |
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