"If it's a sin, then what is the difference between annulment and the divorce if it's separating two people?" asked Alan.
But, as the example of Henry VIII makes clear, the difference between divorce and annulment is too subtle to survive much contact with reality.
United's position is further strengthened since it helped its affiliated airline, Air Canada, to take over Canadian Airlines, a partner of AA.In Europe the annulment of the planned marriage between KLM of the Netherlands and Italy's Alitalia has caused the struggling Dutch airline to put itself up for sale.
This traumatic episode is supposed to underpin the most painful and serious of the novel's aesthetic meditations — about whether there is a connection between Billy's "sexual annulment" and his ability to create — but it feels like ten minutes of "American Pie" spliced into "The Agony and the Ecstasy".
Bagir Manan, head of the Supreme Court, said that even though the court overturned the corruption conviction in October, Mr. Suharto must be imprisoned for the time he would have served between the conviction and the annulment.
The difference between a divorce and an annulment isn't a difference without a distinction.
With the successful annulment, the buzz around an upcoming spectacular wedding between the rising politician and actress intensified.
The Egyptian-Israeli gas link was one of the most significant outcomes of the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, and its annulment clearly signals a period of greater discord; it may also cause energy shortages in Israel, especially during peak summer demand periods.
Increasing estrangement between the colony and England resulted in the annulment of the company's charter in 1684 and the substitution of royal government under a new charter granted in 1691.
After six years of increasing unhappiness and distance between them, Effie took the step of seeking an annulment, unusual at the time, which led to court proceedings that proved intensely embarrassing to them both.
