Sentence examples for marriages prevailed from inspiring English sources

"The people who were seeking to stop the marriages prevailed for the time being," said Jesse H. Choper, professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Batabyal says divorce rates are higher in countries with mostly 'love matches', which may be because divorce is limited in countries where arranged marriages prevail.

In settings where early marriage prevails, however, declining age at menarche could increase lifetime fertility.

Wedding bells are ringing in California, where same-ex marriage prevails in spite of the intrusive, outrageous spending of anti-gay marriage organizations.

The institution of marriage has prevailed!

As Cooper told the Judge at a pretrial hearing, in October, the traditional definition of marriage has "prevailed in every civilized society throughout the ages" and "still prevails everywhere in the world, with the exception of five American states, and seven foreign countries".

He noted that opponents of same-sex marriage have prevailed repeatedly in statewide votes, and predicted that the issue would soon head to a potentially pivotal ruling in the Supreme Court.

This is only amplified by the fact that the Professor and his traditional marriage allies claim that the generally accepted definition of marriage must prevail.

New York just doubled the percentage of Americans who live in states with more egalitarian marriage laws, to 11 percent; that percentage will double again if the California gay-marriage lawsuit prevails.

In countries where more rigid marriage norms prevail, cohabitation has a stronger effect on marital stability than in countries where marriage norms are weaker (Wagner and Weiss 2006).

A new referendum, to repeal Proposition 8 and replace it with a state constitutional recognition of same-sex marriage, would prevail easily and quickly.