Sentence examples for marriage shift from inspiring English sources

In fact, Santorum wasted no time firing a shot at Walker, capitalizing on comments the Wisconsin governor's wife made to the to the Washington Post last week that suggested the rest of the Walker clan may not have been totally on board with their patriarch's anti-gay marriage shift.

Married drivers should resist the higher-paying night rate because nothing jeopardizes a marriage like working a night shift, he advised his students.

Gradually, Mr. Brass said, his opinion on marriage shifted and he came to realize that "the inner material is what holds people together".

After the New York State Senate rejected a gay marriage bill last week, the front line in the national battle over same-sex marriage shifted to New Jersey.

(Here it's worth contrasting the way opinion on gay marriage shifted in the first two years of the Obama era among Democrats and independents with the way it mostly didn't shift among Republicans and conservatives).

Those values have spread, in part, because of economic trends that have further weakened marriage: Shifting values, in this sense, are a consequence of instability as well as a cause.

Divorce rates rose in the Victorian era, as the conception of marriage shifted from a primarily economic and social arrangement to a bond of intimacy, emotional sustenance, and love.

Obama coming out clearly in favor of gay marriage shifts that character question in his favor.

This marriage shifted possession of the islands to the British Empire, as part of Catherine's dowry to Charles.

Once marriage shifted from its historical moorings as solely economic and political arrangements to consensual romantic unions based on love, emotional intimacy and sexual attraction, sexual fidelity became the barometer of a successful relationship or marriage.

For first marriage, the shift in age preference scenario (escape route #3) works well both for low- and middle-educated women, while highly-educated women seem to follow the path of strengthened educational homogamy (escape route #1).