Sentence examples for as annulment from inspiring English sources

Patriarchy survives in the flock that Henry VIII appropriated from Rome in 1534, having shed a menopausal wife without benefit of the papal nod known to Catholics with connections as annulment, in order to marry Anne Boleyn, who had promised him a son a year — and was herself dispatched to the executioner's block for producing a girl instead.

Does using the word "chaste" put people off? (Guy: "Chaste just sounds so Amish-Catholic. Why not just say, 'I'm going to remain a virgin till I get married'?") Mike did not win and was unceremoniously dispatched with a loud buzzer, followed by a suggestion by Mr. Rulli that he "get that annulment" as soon as possible, "even if it's a big pain".

Based on Riehl's story who married maid in Hall household, and suing for annulment, as said wife confessed she knew about murder and Mrs. Hall gave her $8,000 to keep quiet.

As long as an annulment was possible, she had to cultivate an "appearance of credit" with the King, as she explained to her brother.

An annulment could take as long as a year or more to process and her "husband's" family could still present challenges, but Meghwal is undeterred.

Baptism is understood, therefore, as the total annulment of the sins of one's past and the emergence of a totally innocent person.

Were it not for the annulment, as John Stuart Mill put it in his essay On Liberty, this country would almost certainly have followed the example of the majority of the Continent.

This could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient, although there was no divorce as such.

Not knowing that Henry VIII had already secretly married the pregnant Anne Boleyn, Clement VII decided to reach out to the monarch by appointing Thomas Cranmer, an outspoken proponent of Henry VIII's annulment, as archbishop of Canterbury.

Before the Reformation, the extensive marriage bars for kinship meant that most marriages necessitated a papal dispensation, which could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient.

Before the Reformation, the extensive marriage bars for kinship meant that most noble marriages necessitated a papal dispensation, which could later be used as grounds for annulment if the marriage proved politically or personally inconvenient, although there was no divorce as such.