Sentence examples for offering marriage from inspiring English sources

A legally rigorous man still couldn't turn to his boyfriend and ask: "Will you marry me?" It would have to be: "Will you same-sex marry me?" In that way, the NSW bill might offer same-sex marriage, but it's not offering marriage equality.

But the saddest tale was of the soldier who wrote, in all seriousness, offering marriage to the two-headed woman.

This, according to the chronicler Theophanes, he sought to do by offering marriage to the empress Irene, hoping thus "to reunite east and west".

Clerk's offices in hundreds of rural and suburban towns across New York began offering marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples for the first time on Monday, even as a conservative group filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's Marriage Equality Act and nullify the same-sex marriages.

Sheri E. Steisel, a policy analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures, said, "The Bush administration has raised this issue to the national level, but state legislators of both parties are interested in offering marriage education and premarital counseling to low-income couples".

She is now reportedly not offering marriage licenses to opposite-sex couples either, except by appointment.

Robert Rector, a welfare guru at the conservative Heritage Foundation, calculates that, if the mothers tie the knot, only 17% of them remain poor; if they remain single, 55% of them will.Do you need marriage-skills training?All the same, isn't there something a little Orwellian about a bureaucrat offering "marriage-skills training"?

Outlawing same-sex marriage while offering marriage-like rights under law contravenes the right to equal protection under law, the brief says.

Oklahoma, Arizona, Maryland and Florida have recently passed statewide pro-marriage initiatives (such as offering marriage-education classes, teaching relationship courses in high school, refunding marriage-license fees for completed premarital courses and publishing marriage-skills handbooks).

The city's convention and visitors association, Meet Minneapolis, is a giddy member of the wedding party, offering free marriage planning for those who come.

"As the law will soon require all premises offering civil marriage ceremonies to also offer civil partnership ceremonies, the university's governing body has been discussing its future policy.