Sentence examples for of immense import from inspiring English sources

These suits aim to build on Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion invalidating the Defense of Marriage Act, including his insight that the federal government's refusal to recognize some marriages denied married same-sex couples a "status of immense import" and deprived children of "the integrity and closeness of their own family".

A couple for 22 years with two teenage daughters, the Whitewoods filed suit on Tuesday to overturn Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage, one of the first of an expected outpouring of cases around the country to cite the court's majority opinion that same-sex couples are denied a "status of immense import" and their children deprived of "the integrity and closeness of their own family".

A state's decision to give same-sex couples "the right to marry," he noted, "conferred upon them a dignity and status of immense import".

The recent SCOTUS decision on the matter affirmed that DOMA not only sought to injure couples based on their interest and/or participation in marriage but that the law deprives them of a "dignity and status of immense import".

On Wednesday, the court's majority ruled that the power of the individual state in defining marriage "is of central relevance" and the decision to grant same-sex couples the right to marry is "of immense import".

Whether or not you're practicing or Jewish at all, this book will show the immense import of a day of rest.

The next decade was pivotal in Lacan's trajectory, the time when he fully came into his own as a leading analytic thinker of great originality and immense import.

This anticipation on the part of the living of the experience of dying has been a factor of immense psychological and social import.