Sentence examples for form of dowry from inspiring English sources

Land and precious metals have often been used in this form of dowry and are frequently inalienable by the husband, though he might otherwise use and profit from them during the marriage.

In her fiancée's tradition, the woman's family paid a dowry so she ruled out any form of dowry.

In her fiancée's tradition, the woman's family paid a dowry, so she ruled out any form of dowry.

Traditionally in Mozambique, a "lobolo" (a form of dowry) is paid by the girl's family when she marries.

Some men agreed but most did not; they demanded sweeteners in the form of extra dowry payments from the authorities.In Congo, despite the efforts of activists, rape still brings shame to the victim, says Ms Margolis: "People can sit around and talk about the importance of removing the stigma in the abstract, but when it comes to their own wives or daughters or sisters, it is a different story".

Patrilineality may be another factor: core productive assets, such as land, are traditionally passed on through the male line, while women may be given movable goods in the form of a dowry, placing families with daughters at an economic disadvantage.

After his defeat by the Byzantine navy in the 1427 Battle of the Echinades, however, Tocco was forced to cede his possessions to the Despot of the Morea, Constantine Palaiologos (who would become the last Byzantine emperor), in the form of a dowry for his daughter Maddalena Tocco.

Another form of violence against women — dowry deaths — is equally well-documented, and just as ugly, though Indians are so used to these that they have become almost invisible.

Our play "Om Swaha" addressed the horrors of dowry murder, another prevalent form of gender violence.

The dowry took the form of a sleek, three-bedroom home with clean lines and white marble floors to go with the white walls, white curtains and white furnishings.

Mr Cheney's lack of a dowry in the form of votes from his home state expresses this nicely (most of his political career was in Wyoming, which has a grand total of three electoral-college votes, and where Democrats are anyway on the endangered-species list).