Sentence examples for eligible to marry from inspiring English sources

Third, all societies exert control over whom one is eligible to marry or have as a sexual partner.

Nowadays, the origins of Korea's clans are remote enough that people whose ancestral roots are in different villages are considered eligible to marry one another.

"The pool of people eligible for marriage had continued to expand and was keeping the number of marriages high, but more and more women eligible to marry were not doing so," the report said.

The governor, saying that "Massachusetts should not become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage," has interpreted the law to mean that since no other state performs gay marriages, only Massachusetts same-sex couples are eligible to marry here.

She said: "All people in Scotland who are eligible to marry or enter into a civil partnership should have the right to do so freely without coercion.

It is also unclear if a man who was eligible to marry an epikleros but was already married could keep his previous wife while also claiming the epikleros.

A point I learned on the southern island of Hainan when I met a dejected set of young men who were unable to find any eligible women to marry.

There's something quite reassuring about these extraordinarily successful and eligible men choosing to marry women who are, frankly, just as successful and eligible as they are.

There was henceforth widespread surprise in 1953 when the stupendously eligible Earl chose to marry a commoner.

In many instances, the women must undergo a certain amount of "Koranic education" by the sect before being eligible to be married.

An obscure 1913 law in that state makes void all marriages performed there where the couple is not eligible to be married in their home state.