Sentence examples for marriage expanded from inspiring English sources

He cast himself as a "new kind of Republican" who supported same-sex marriage, expanded background checks for gun purchases and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

In 2009, Boeing had reportedly joined Microsoft and Nike in backing Washington's "everything but marriage" expanded same-sex domestic partnership law.

As the Williams Institute has noted in papers about the economic benefits of same-sex marriage, expanding marriage rights would send a substantial number of economically struggling couples over the eligibility thresholds, shifting the financial responsibility from the state to the couple without any actual improvement in the couple's economic well-being.

Alarming to many in a country where socially liberal policies like affirmative action and legalization of same-sex marriage recently expanded, Mr. Bolsonaro's positions appeal to a growing legion of supporters.

The increase in cross-border marriage has expanded Vietnamese brides' family networks, and these networks can transform into stable and dependable social capitals for both the brides and their families (Huang 2016b).

He announced that the Department of Justice would no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, expanded federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees and issued a presidential memorandum that directs all federal agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons.

These repeals have been explained, e.g., in terms of transportation improvements (it became easier to register marriages), the expanded system of government benefits with spousal entitlements (making it more costly for states to recognize CLM), and growth in the number of contested marriage cases (Bowman [1996]).

They are ending the so-called marriage penalty, expanding the 10percenttaxax bracket and keeping the child tax credit at $1,000 a year.

Changing the definition of who can get married, they say, doesn't change the definition of marriage; it expands the number of people who can enjoy it.

Those include tax cuts that expire this year but have bipartisan support: eliminating the so-called marriage penalty, expanding the 10percenttaxax bracket and keeping the child tax credit at $1,000.

Those actions are ending the so-called marriage penalty, expanding the 10percenttaxax bracket and keeping the $1,000 annual tax credit for children, instead of allowing it to revert to $700.