Sentence examples similar to dowrying from inspiring English sources

It's one hell of a sum, even if it does include a £450m dowry for TSB's would-be Spanish purchaser, Sabadell, to upgrade the IT systems.

Despite some reforms, reported crimes against women such as rape, dowry deaths, abduction and molestation increased by 26.7% in 2013 compared with the previous year, according to government statistics.

Without more rain, it will fail, adding to his 125,000-rupee ($2,500) debt a big sum, when the dowry for a Lambada bride is $1,200.With no crop, no money and three daughters to marry off, he would join the only reliable flood in AP in these drought days: of thousands of tough, skinny peasants into Hyderabad, the state capital, in search of a day-wage.

The people of a vanishing atoll might somehow retain their rights even if they migrated en masse to another country, or merged with another state, bringing their entitlements as a sort of dowry.Yet current law lays down that only islands can support economic areas.

But in London there was the familiar nagging feeling that the foreigners had got the bigger dowry.

Noble girls were sent there because it was cheaper and easier than finding a husband for them: the dowry due was sometimes as little as one-tenth of the average marriage-portion in a wealthy house.

Like so many tribes in the region, the Karamajong measure wealth in cows: a man cannot marry without paying a bovine dowry.

By Definition, shareholders of acquired firms are happy with their dowry, or they would not have parted with their shares.

Who wants a gold bar as a dowry?

Until the early 20th century the people on Yap, an island in the Pacific Ocean, used large stone disks (pictured) as money for big expenses, such as a daughter's dowry.

Cattle have been a status symbol, a store of value in a land without banks, the only way to pay dowries.