Sentence examples for imposing marriage from inspiring English sources

Many of the families are also related and share last names like Jeffs, which is also the name of the F.L.D.S. leader, Warren S. Jeffs, who was convicted last year on a rape charge for imposing marriage between an under-age girl and older man in Utah.

But here is what struck me: there was very little evidence that any justice, including Justice Kennedy and including the more progressive ones, was interested in a ruling that would impose marriage equality nationally.

In a political economy framework, Croix and Mariani (2012) argue that decreasing inequality among males can lead poor women and poor men to form a coalition supporting monogamy as the socially imposed marriage regime.

Or it could sweep away all 31 state constitutional amendments barring gay marriage and impose marriage equality nationwide.

If the court imposes marriage equality on all the states now, the resulting backlash could keep dozens of state legislatures in obstructionist hands for a long time.

"We certainly wouldn't go for imposing gay marriage on the country administratively," Mr. Gacek said.

Whatever the activists on both sides say, nothing in the Constitution requires the Supreme Court to short-circuit the country's search for a new consensus, either by imposing gay marriage nationwide or by slamming the door on it with an aggressively dismissive ruling.

In a commentary last year for World Net Daily, Lane called on Christians to wage "war" against the "pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage".

JERUSALEM — Israel's centrist Yesh Atid Party introduced civil union legislation on Tuesday that would give same-sex couples access to the rights of marriage and free heterosexual ones from the religious strictures imposed on marriage.

In Ms. Filali's case, a court imposed the marriage with her parent's consent.

Under the Qaddafi government, judges hearing rape claims often impose a marriage between the victim and the rapist as a remedy for the woman's dishonor.