Sentence examples for multiple wives has from inspiring English sources

She dismisses her pioneer connection as much of an electoral draw, though, since Mr. Young, with his multiple wives, has thousands of descendants.

Often overlooked by mainstream historians, the story of how a church founded by radicals who practiced an early form of communism and sanctioned sexual promiscuity through multiple wives has come to be known for white-bread conservatism is a compelling American tale.

One of the specialists stressed that a woman and her husband's awareness about the genital complications of natural labor (pelvic relaxation) and its effect on sexual relation along with the fact that law does not protect women with such disabilities (religious laws allow men to remarry and have multiple wives) has made families have a higher tendency toward C-section.

With your co-workers it's like having an unending argument with multiple wives; you have to be able to read everyone's mind, and predict their next thoughts, but you have to do it without getting distracted by real or imagined embellishments".

This was not easy in a society where men had multiple wives and women had few rights.

Headman often had multiple wives, whereas nonheadmen rarely had more than one wife, and young men often had no wives.

One male whose genes might have carried a particular mutation, for example, could have fathered dozens of children through multiple wives -- and had sons who in turn took multiple wives themselves and had equally big families.

And since his predecessors in his spiritual lineage had multiple wives, certainly he should have them.

You'd think having multiple wives would make Bill the envy of the neighbourhood, but local gossips make the going tough, so they throw a party to show everyone that they are just regular folk.

In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the primary engine of the epidemic is men who buy commercial sex, refuse to use condoms, take multiple wives, or, increasingly, have sex with young girls in the belief that they are "clean" or will cure them of AIDS.

The current charge is the latest in a long and complicated series of failed attempts by the government to convict Blackmore and other spiritual leaders in Bountiful, a religious commune in southern BC, who believe that men need to have multiple wives to make it into the highest echelons of heaven in the afterlife.