When you marry two families, the Friends and the Piersons, that have lived for generations in houses with dumbwaiters and coal scuttles and all manner of oddities, the marriage carries with it a staggering heritage of bric-a-brac that has no bearing on modern life the junk DNA that gets handed down alongside the useful genes.
— In ticking off his credentials on the campaign trail — management consultant, businessman, governor — Mitt Romney omits what may have been his most distinctive post: Mormon lay leader, offering pastoral guidance on all manner of human affairs from marriage to divorce, abortion, adoption, addiction, unemployment and even business disputes.
The expansion of Europe's ski areas may be an environmental non-starter but resorts can still increase their pulling power, in the manner of historic royal houses, by marriages of convenience.
Behind the check in tables is what a first appears to be a giant wedding cake on a table set for two--except that an electronic, illuminated mouse has eaten its way into the base of the cake, raising all manner of questions about the nature of marriage ceremonies.
In the beginning he seems less tormented than merely disgusted, in the manner of judgmental adolescents, by the unseemly marriage of Gertrude (the beautiful Natasha Parry), his widowed mother, to his uncle, Claudius Jeffery Kissoonn).
The Register of Marriages, 1875-96.
What kinds of marriages do marriage plots allow?
The resulting family structure, with its high proportion of marriages between cousins, increases the likelihood of babies being born with genetic defects unless genetic information is shared in a responsible manner.
Instead we asked acceptable questions: ' age of first marriage' and ' number of marriages'.
Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the 1962 Convention of Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages require that countries establish a minimum age for marriage and that all marriages be registered (7 ).
