Sentence examples for rapid marriages from inspiring English sources

From the 1730s the border settlements of Coldstream Bridge, Lamberton Toll, and most famously Gretna Green, developed local industries in private and rapid marriages for English couples wishing to take advantage of the more flexible Scottish marriage laws, undertaken by individuals who declared themselves marriage priests.

Add his rapid-fire marriage and later divorce to the pop singer Cheryl Tweedy, and a recent dressing down for "accidentally" firing a loaded air rifle at a visitor to Chelsea's training ground, and thoughts of Englishmen with brains in their feet have substance.

Sayyid's father worked as a watchman on the outskirts of Cairo, where he embarked on a rapid series of marriages and divorces.

Women whose fathers had little education experienced more rapid rates of marriage, while children of highly educated fathers experience slower marriage.

But the conservatives were critical of rapid change on marriage as undermining centuries of tradition.

If Mr. Rivers's career was going smoothly, the rest of his life was snagged with troubled marriages, rapid-fire relationships, drug use and public behavior that made him an art world figure of uneasy renown.

We found a significant association between father absence and more rapid progression to marriage and birth in this sample.

In summary, we found a significant association between father absence during later childhood and more rapid progression to marriage and first birth.

There is also a need to examine the factors leading to the rapid changes in marriage status over time and their impact on the quality of life.

"It's a reflection of a very rapid increase in interracial marriages and the fact that many younger blacks are looking back in their ancestry beyond their parents," said Jeffrey S. Passel, a demographer with the Urban Institute, a social policy research organization.

Findings revealed interrelated factors that triggered and perpetuated IPV: gendered social norms and roles, destabilization of gender norms and roles, men's substance use, women's separation from family, and rapid remarriages and forced marriages.