Sentence examples for governing marriages from inspiring English sources

According to the New York City rules governing marriages, "Ordination certificates issued by the Universal Life Church or its affiliates are not acceptable as evidence of clerical authority".

Every group had regulations governing marriage.

Tells about a case illustrating the strict religious laws governing marriage.

The rules governing marriage in Islamic countries seem to give great advantages to men.

Instead, each religious community is allowed to have its own laws governing marriage and divorce and consequently Muslims are allowed to follow sharia.

The Episcopal Church's rules define marriage as a "union of a man and a woman" but also say the clergy must "conform to the laws of the state" governing marriage.

Françoise Héritier in particular developed Lévi-Strauss's earlier work linking terminology systems to particular forms of alliance on the basis of their association with various rules governing marriage.

"We believe that marriage, the union of one man and one woman must be upheld as the national standard a goal to stand for, encourage, and promote through laws governing marriage," the Republican platform says.

The liberal justices dominated the supreme court hearing on Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, with intense and at times derisive questioning of the core argument put forward by the lawyer representing opponents of same-sex marriage: that procreation makes a special case of laws governing marriage.

Ruling and governing: Marriage of convenience?

With the district court injunction now stayed, the original laws governing marriage in Utah return to effect pending final resolution by the courts.