Sentence examples for maintain marriage from inspiring English sources

Christian conservatives have fought long and hard to maintain marriage according to biblical standards.

This, in spite of the fact that all states with marriage equality laws specifically exempt from performing same gender marriages those religions that maintain marriage is only between "one man and one woman".

While Red Tails, the "first all-black action movie," opened strong in Hollywood, its star, David Oyelowo, strolled the independent carpet for director Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere, a film about a black woman's struggle to maintain marriage with her husband in prison.

The failure to control urine and/or faeces, maintain marriages, bear children or participate in social activities made women with a fistula lose their sense of identity as women, wives, friends and community members [ 18, 22– 25].

We support maintaining marriage between one man and one woman and would oppose any attempts to change that".

These were: keeping clean and neat, earning an income, maintaining marriage and keeping association (Fig.  2).

These were keeping clean and neat, earning an income, maintaining marriage, and keeping association.

Moreover, maintaining marriage or living under the same roof does not necessarily imply that there are actual marital relationships between the couple [ 52].

Thus, it was argued that although there are women who genuinely suspect that their husbands are unfaithful, they feel obliged to continue fulfilling their husbands' sexual demands – albeit with a broken heart – for the sake of maintaining marriage.

"Traditional" marriage advocates sometimes maintain that marriage-equality is a slippery slope: First gay marriage, next polygamy.

For Milton, marriage depends on the compatibility of the partners, and to maintain a marriage that is without mutual love and sympathy violates one's personal liberty.