Sentence examples for marriages rather than from inspiring English sources

Should there be civil marriages, rather than just rabbinical ones?

Tighter restrictions on foreign spouses were presented as a measure to prevent forced marriages, rather than to keep people out.

I chose "marriages" rather than "relationships" for this list because I am fascinated by the baggage that marriage carries.

Yet religious rhetoric about defending marriage almost always means attacking gay people's marriages rather than straight people's divorces, or even their failure to form families at all.

"In some ways the city has created its own policies," Ms. Cutler said, "and if it is such an affront to the city, why have they not come to court to ask for her removal?" Former city officials, however, portray those consent decrees as shotgun marriages rather than the product of real give-and-take.

Thus people are still likely to postpone marriages, rather than let them be celebrated in Easter week.

But such relationships supplemented marriage rather than replaced it.

And many young adults, he said, are postponing marriage rather than forgoing it altogether.

This vision embraces the institution of marriage, rather than seeking to overthrow it.

They are what makes it a marriage rather than a paid assignation.

Mora was beatified because she chose to stay in an abusive marriage rather than divorce.