Sentence examples for marry rather than from inspiring English sources

Blanche Girouard, who teaches religious education at the £20,000 a year St Paul's Girls Schooll, also suggested girls were happier when they were simply expected to marry rather than go to university.

In fact, their lives were so intertwined that on the morning Denis's mother was to marry, rather than stockpiling rum, her father secreted balls of opium about his person, to dull the pain of the day.

Challenged in front of Drogo, she defends her actions with her rights as khaleesi and demands that the raiders marry rather than enslave the women they desire.

The researchers suggest that "engagement" has a different meaning for those contemplating second marriages and that sometimes the engagement period is a long period of time that reflects a reluctance to marry rather than a step toward marriage.

During one weekend in the mid-end of June however, gender roles are suddenly the shit: Girls are encouraged to wear white cotton underwear, sleep with seven different flowers under their pillows for their silly dreams to come true, and take part in various traditions that will help them meet a man to marry rather than being single, get a wife, or be whoever it is that they want to be.

I better had looked for a husband to marry rather than continue to waste time with things I should have done many years ago.

The other day my husband said he was glad we were married, rather than civil partners.

As prosecutors, I was told, we preferred jurors who were old rather than young; married rather than single; employed rather than jobless.

A significant enough amount of people who care about being married rather than in a civil partnership.

As many as one-third of Israeli couples marry abroad or live together without marrying rather than follow the rabbinate's strictures.

"You are 25 times to 30 times more likely to be on the alternative minimum tax if you are married rather than single".