Sentence examples for foreign marriages from inspiring English sources

"We recognize foreign marriages, just the same as we recognize Mexican divorces".

But the United States generally recognizes foreign marriages as long as they are legally conducted abroad and do not break any laws here.

Generally, a principle of "comity" has applied with foreign countries, under which Americans recognize foreign marriages and may expect their own to be accepted abroad.

The recognition of foreign marriages bill would amend the Marriage Act 1961 to remove the prohibition of same-sex marriages solemnised in a foreign country and recognise them under Australian law.

Although gay marriage is illegal in Russia, Voitsekhovsky and Stotsko took advantage of a loophole earlier this year after discovering the government recognizes foreign marriages.

Then even the interior minister, Angelino Alfano, released a statement informing legislators that any registration of foreign marriages between same-sex couples would be "voided".

Foreign marriage has become so common that it has lost much of its stigma here in Udon Thani, and many girls share Ms. Davis's dream of becoming a princess.

Once he was released on bail, they went to the foreign marriage office and were told that without a passport Fahmy was ineligible to be wed.

To remove this threat to Habsburg and Valois suitors, between 1565 and 1578, four German and French princesses were mooted as brides for Leicester, as a consolation for giving up Elizabeth and his resistance to her foreign marriage projects.

On May 18 , 2012 the court published a unanimous ruling in Port v. Cowan that validated the marriage of Jessica Port and Virginia Cowan because it said "no viable decision by the Court had deemed a valid foreign marriage to be 'repugnant'," even if the marriage was void or punishable as a crime were it performed in Maryland.

In the same period, there has been a considerable increase in the number of Chinese-foreign marriages (Jeffreys and Wang 2013).