Sentence examples for conjugal union from inspiring English sources

Professor George argues that marriage is "a conjugal union of husband and wife".

Peregrine then distracted us when she referred to her conjugal union -- in which a grizzly has obviously overcome its savage nature to shack up with a tree elf (and who wouldn't, for real estate like that?) -- as "a pretty traditional marriage".

Here the transfer of genetic material from one single-cell organism to another is characterized in gendered terms: the donor and recipient cells are labeled "male" and "female," respectively, and the transfer process is described as mediated by "conjugal unions between male and female cells" (1995, 56).

One of the key issues is that co-residence in southern African rural populations is not a defining characteristic of either conjugal unions or of household units.

Although co-residential conjugal unions are the basis of family organisation in most parts of the world, many people in KwaZulu-Natal will not experience extensive periods of cohabitation with their married or unmarried partners.

Factors traditionally associated with reduced fertility, such as the proportion of women not in conjugal unions, the proportion using contraception, the proportion of women not fecund (primarily as a result of breast-feeding), and the level of induced abortions may have contributed to this reduction somewhat but do not seem to be the main force behind the changing fertility patterns in Canada.

With the virtual absence of monogamous marriage, the conjugal system is characterized by a high incidence of multiple and serial customary unions and visiting relationships; as a result, about one-third of households are headed by females.

The conservatives claim that marriage is "conjugal," about building families, and that this excludes gay marriage.

In her 2003 paper tracing the distinctive roots of Western and African households, Margo Russell challenges the assumption that African South Africans are engaged in a transition to a Western pattern of non-marital cohabiting unions and writes: "A moment's thought would confirm the profoundly different weight placed on conjugal co-residence by black and white people.

To limit conjugal visits?

Their conjugal solidarity was daunting.