Within my circle of American-born cousins, however, we used the term only to tease each other about our parents' marriage schemes.
When introducing the bill in October, attorney general, Martin Pakula, said regulations would specify that the civil partnership and same-sex marriage schemes in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada would be among those automatically recognised in Victoria.
Set in a country village and with realistic characters, it tells the story of how, after a late surprise revelation, true love prevails over the combined efforts of ambitious parents and a scheming marriage broker.
After the killer receives a lenient prison sentence, Owen, hoping to "unpoison the soil" of his marriage, contrives an intricate scheme to inflict what he considers appropriate psychological damage on the killer.
In 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that gay and lesbian couples must have the same benefits as heterosexual couples and left it to the legislature to decide if they should have marriage or some other scheme.
It sparks to vivid life the four characters (stunning performances) clashing over twin crumbling constructs: marriage and urban renewal schemes.
In Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the scheming, randy Count has his lecherous plotting interrupted by a delegation of village maidens.
Between 1766 and 1769 Boswell amused himself with various well-hedged schemes of marriage, maintaining meantime a liaison with a young Mrs. Dodds.
The largest single incident of fraudulent marriages, the most massive scheme of wiretapping and bugging, and the largest mass poisoning".
It's clear from the start that Owen is doomed, but the queasy thrills of the novel derive from watching the scheme — and the marriage — unravel.
