Sentence examples for intimate union from inspiring English sources

The intimate union of the spouses finds a purpose in love.

Perhaps more than any generation before, we grew up in an age in which consumption and identity formed an intimate union.

Among the Dinka, sacrifices of cows announce every marriage, and life is lived in a particularly intimate union with their herds.

He held that we "experience within ourselves certain... things which must not be referred either to the mind alone or to the body alone," and that these arise "from the close and intimate union of our mind with the body".

Now let us renounce the evil canard of "separate but equal" states of intimate union and declare same-sex marriage an inalienable right to be accorded to all consenting adult couples who seek it.

She has, for thirty years, been a partner in an intimate union of two who share a bed, a bank account, vacations (they especially like "outdoor fucking"), squabbles, a workplace — a "couple culture," as she puts it — and who have for a decade been legally wed.

But while unhealthy intimate unions can wreak havoc on the psyche and may inform the way in which we treat others, it's usually an insular thing.

The court might also make it more difficult for Europe to issue common debt in the future or take other steps toward a more intimate fiscal union.

"Our findings suggest that even in modern intimate relationships, unions improve emotional health and the legal formality of such unions may be less important than in the past," the researchers wrote.

One approach focuses on protecting economically dependent caregivers; Metz proposes replacing civil marriage with "intimate care-giving unions" which would protect the rights of dependent caregivers (Metz 2010; cf. Hartley and Watson 2012).

But we rarely stop to think about the longest, most intimate and committed union that we're already in: the one we entered into at birth with our siblings.