Sentence examples for make a marriage from inspiring English sources

He is an opaque man who is uncomfortable discussing his feelings, which can make a marriage hard.

There's nothing like your family killing first your wife's father then her mother and oldest brother to make a marriage go with a swing.

"Catalysts are like a matchmaker who make a marriage and then can go off and make other marriages, Dr. Coates said.

Now, with Volkswagen poised to acquire Porsche — in a deal announced a year ago that values Porsche at 12.4 billion euros ($15.6 billion) — many in the auto industry wonder whether they can make a marriage work.

Moreover, if he's out to make a marriage of convenience simply to mollify his parents, why pick a middle-class American gold digger from Pasadena -- one left disfigured by a childhood accident, moreover -- as his bride?

Updike is, as ever, sensitive to the fuzzy line between love and hate, the things people do to hurt one another, with and without meaning it, and the many tiny intimacies and outrages that make a marriage.

But with Republicans in the House having vowed to make a marriage-penalty bill one of their first priorities this year -- and with Democrats in Congress loath to vote against such legislation at a time of swelling federal budget surpluses -- Mr. Clinton's plan could provide the seeds for a bipartisan compromise.

"You're making a marriage," he says.

It is difficult to know what makes a marriage.

I don't know what makes a marriage work.

For the Frankfurters, too, had made a marriage between anti-capitalist politics and modernist aesthetics.