Sentence examples for compelled to marry from inspiring English sources

Alan Bates starred as draughtsman who struggles with the responsibilities of married life after being compelled to marry a pregnant coworker.

Anyway, I felt compelled to marry him.

His lawyer said that at that point the actor felt compelled to marry Ms. Bakley.

No religious organisation or individual minister can be compelled to marry same-sex couples or to permit this to happen on their premises.

She may have been Ankhesenamen (Ankhesenpaaten), the widow of Tutankhamen who was compelled to marry the ambitious courtier-priest Ay, thus legitimizing his usurpation of the throne.

As a result, his kingdom was placed under papal interdiction, and he was finally compelled to marry the Castilian king's eldest daughter.

I join the majority of people compelled to be married, but how could marriage possibly work for me?

Something about those deer, and being in a foreign country — I was compelled to ask her to marry me, though I always say she asked me".

Patterson thinks that declining marriage rates had more to do with the increased availability of contraception and abortion, which eroded cultural norms that had once compelled men to marry the women they impregnated).

Less than a century ago, King Edward VIII felt compelled to abdicate his throne to marry an American divorcee (Wallis Simpson).

What really compels her to marry him is her thoughtfulness.