Sentence examples for customary union from inspiring English sources

As part of the airline's short-lived effort to liven up its fleet with images from other cultures, the jets did not carry the customary Union Jack logo.

A court agreed that he had already wed one of them in a traditional ceremony, so he was obliged to marry Ms Macheka in a "customary" union which recognises polygamy.

The court agreed that he had already wed one of them in a traditional ceremony, so he was obliged to marry Ms Macheka in a "customary" union which recognises polygamy.

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.

Whereas previously, only Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) had permitted, or rather compelled, Africans to register customary unions (Posel 1995).

The recognition of marital status in South Africa under many arrangements, including civil unions and customary unions, and co-habitation makes the standard definition of marriage used in this study a potential limitation.

The 1998 Act, which came in to effect in 2000, declared that all customary unions could be considered as legal marriages provided that criteria relating to consent and community of property are met, and that the marriage is registered (Budlender, Chobokoane, and Simelane 2005).

He took his customary lap with the union flag and received his medal with a lump in his throat but says he was too scared to cry in case the pictures were endlessly replayed and used to mock him.

Such schools can circumvent some union rules and customary management methods while operating outside the influence of school boards and state authorities.

They were listed here last week as No. 1 in payroll based on 25-man rosters and disabled-list players, the customary way management and the players' union have computed such matters.

In a decision expected to improve the treatment of baseball players with concussions, Major League Baseball will allow teams this season to place those players on a disabled list for seven days rather than the customary 15, the league and players union announced on Tuesday.