Sentence examples for private marriage from inspiring English sources
Many families will then be structured and governed primarily by private marriage customs and practices now freed of state regulation.
"It's a new way of approaching adaptive reuse," Mr. Ehrlich said, "a public and private marriage where everybody wins".
When they were involved in one of the great art trials of the twentieth century, their private marriage of art and commerce was in danger of receiving much too public scrutiny.
After the section had gone to press, The Times learned that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the bride's father, officiated on Friday at a small private marriage ceremony at Gracie Mansion.
Plato's reason for this radical restructuring of marriage was to extend family sympathies from the nuclear family to the state itself: the abolition of the private family was intended to discourage private interests at odds with the common good and the strength of the state (ibid., 449a-466d; in Plato's Laws, ca. 355 47 BCE, private marriage is retained but still designed for public benefit).
We both wanted a private marriage ceremony without the distraction of a media circus.
In other words, privatizing marriage will give private organizations, including inegalitarian ones, more influence over the institution of marriage without giving individuals negatively affected much protection by having access to civil union status.
Wyman's wife, Suzanne, who was Hall's witness at the private civil marriage on Friday, stepped out of the same car as Hall.
It is hard to divert leaders of the Catholic church in the US from their preoccupations with private lives – marriage, reproduction and abortion – and persuade them to take up the very public cause Francis is seeking to ignite with his denunciation of capitalism and inequality, campaigners said.
One proposal is full contractualization or privatization, leaving marriage to churches and private organizations.
(Frustratingly, it seems that the anti-marriage right has a near monopoly on discussions of the social or even the private effects of marriage.
