Sentence examples for marriage standard from inspiring English sources

After Massachusetts' gay marriage ruling, conservative activists demanded a federal marriage standard.

And, far from liberalizing the law of the land as Canada is choosing to do, Congress responded to the gay-marriage issue in 1996 by hastily defining heterosexual union alone as the marriage standard for purposes of federal benefits in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

"Because marriage, the standard American solution to the problem of the human heart, is typically unavailable to gay Christians, we've had to confront loneliness earlier and more publicly than many of our peers," she wrote in The American Conservative.

Mosques would also be expected to have "uniform procedures" for carrying out marriages and standard documents for certifying them.

"Like flies to apple pies," Corean liked to say of Kim's ability to attract male interest, but Kim's options usually fell short of marriage-class standards.

Would gay marriage weaken the standard variety?

It is easy to imagine law firms or even high-street shops offering popular "standard marriage" contracts, based on conditions that seem to have worked.

After the California Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage, The Weekly Standard suggested that a brewing backlash could put that state's "electoral votes in play".

The method was not new, and it's used here on a standard marriage joke, but the joke is a basic good joke, and the method is honestly used to sum up as speedily as possible the banality of what goes wrong with the marriage.

In the same Christmas episode, rather than proposing the standard marriage deal if Mindy and Danny are still single in five years, she proposes a suicide pact.

A more refined hypothesis is that the rejection-mechanism will apply most strongly to those individuals with partnership statuses that express explicit and 'deliberate' deviation from the standard marriage pattern: cohabitation and divorce.