Sentence examples for marriages members from inspiring English sources

Although 37 states have passed laws banning same-sex marriages, members of the clergy say they are seeing a growing number of religiously observant gay couples who are sidestepping the debate over legal rights and seeking to consecrate their unions in churches and synagogues.

In a number of love marriages, community members, and family members intervened and quickly stepped in and forced a marriage if the young couples were found in a compromising situation, irrespective of whether the couple were ready to make such a commitment.

Marriages involve members of different clans.

Some middle-class people try to arrange marriages with members of the "royal family".

The group also arranged marriages between members, which many of the poorest could not afford in normal life.

Believing that Philip III might maintain Spanish supremacy in Europe to some extent by relying on dynastic hegemony, Lerma worked to continue the series of marriages between members of the Spanish royal house and Viennese Habsburgs or French Bourbons.

Two years later he was appointed a junior lord of the Admiralty but gave up his office in February 1772 in order that he might be free to oppose a bill (eventually the Royal Marriage Act) designed to prevent marriages of members of the royal family unless authorized by the king or ratified by the Privy Council.

Marriages between members of different ethnic groups are among the crucial factors driving social and economic harmonization.

Sectarian bouts of violence are common in Upper Egypt where extra-marital dalliances (and marriages) between members of different religions are more than frowned upon.

In 2012 the Episcopal Church adopted a resolution entitled "End Discrimination Against Same-Sex Marriages" urging "members of the United States Congress to pass legislation that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and allow the U.S. federal government to provide benefits to couples in a same-sex marriage".

On the other hand, kin donations are inherently unequal in terms of access for the vulnerable which includes young women in exogamous marriages, poorer members of biradaris, people with small biradari networks, migrant workers and those with chronic blood disorders.